Born: 9 June 1865, United States
Died: 3 June 1940
Country most active: United States
Also known as:
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Helen Marot, an American labor leader, born in Philadelphia. She became executive secretary of the Woman’s Trade Union League in New York, and was also an investigator of child-labor conditions. Her book, American Labor Union (1914) is regarded as an authoritative presentation of the trade-unionist point of view of the labor movement.
IW note: Marot lived with her life partner, progressive educational reformer Caroline Pratt, until Marot’s death.