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Helen Barrett was born on July 31, 1861 in Kingsville, Ohio. She was theoldest of three children born to Adoniram Judson and Emily Barrows Barrett. Bothof her parents were teachers.

As a child her father moved the family to Rochester, New York so that hemight attend the Rochester Theological Seminary. Upon his graduation in 1876, hebecame pastor of the Lake Avenue BaptistChurch, in Rochester, a position heheld until his death in 1889.

Helen Barrett graduated from Wellesley College in 1884 and became a teacher,first at the Rochester Free Academy and then for two years at the WellesleyPreparatory School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She then returned toRochester, where she married William A. Montgomery, a businessman, on September6, 1887. Mr. Montgomery’s business, North East Electric Company, would laterbecome the Rochester Products Division of General Motors.

During the early years of her marriage, Helen Barrett Montgomery and herhusband adopted a daughter, Edith. Montgomery also organized a women’s Bibleclass at the Lake Avenue Baptist Church, which she taught for forty-four years.In 1892, the same church licensed her to preach.

During the 1890s, Montgomery was involved in a number of efforts on behalf ofwomen’s rights. In 1893, she andSusan B. Anthonyformed theWoman’s Educational and Industrial Union ofRochester (WEIU), and Montgomery became its first president. Modeled onsimilar associations in Buffalo and Boston, the WEIU served poor women andchildren in the City. It established a legal aid center, public playgrounds, a"Noon Rest" house for working girls, and safe milk stations formothers. These "stations" later evolved into public health centers.

Montgomery, a teacher before and after her marriage, also became aspokesperson for educational reform in the 1890s, and tied this interest to herwork on behalf of women’s rights. When she served as the president of the NewYork State Federation of Women’s Clubs (1896 - 1897), she was known for herpublic addresses on education issues. In 1898, she joined with Anthony in orderto raise funds to open theUniversityof Rochester to women students, a venture that finally succeeded in 1900.

In 1899, as a result of the efforts of the women’s rights movement, theWEIU, and the Good Government movement, she was elected to the Rochester SchoolBoard, the first woman ever elected to public office in the City. Montgomeryserved on the Board for ten years, during which time she was instrumental ineffecting the implementation of many Progressive reforms -- including theintroduction of kindergartens, vocational training and health education. Duringthis time, she also helped to pioneer the use of schools as community socialcenters in poorer neighborhoods, starting with Public School No. 14 in Rochesterin 1907.

Throughout her tenure on the school board, Montgomery maintained close tiesto Susan B. Anthony and the suffrage movement as a member of the Women’sPolitical Equality Club of Rochester. Shortly after Anthony’s death in 1906,Montgomery served as the second vice-chairman on of the Susan B. AnthonyMemorial Association, a Rochester committee established to ensure that Anthony’spioneering work for women’s rights was properly recognized.

Montgomery became increasingly involved in the women’s missionary movement,as she grew older. In this work too, her activities were often closely linked tofurthering the rights of women. In 1910, she publishedWestern Women inEastern Lands (1910), a study that surveyed the status of women in Asia. Thestudy also examined women’s mission boards, women missionaries, and women’sright to control their own mission funds and programs in Asia.

In 1910 - 1911, Montgomery embarked on a national tour promoting Protestantwomen’s mission work, and through her efforts helped to raise $1 milliondollars, much of which went to establish Christian women’s colleges in Asia.In 1913, at the request of the Federation of Women’s Boards of ForeignMissions, she traveled around the world in order to survey and report onmissions. Her report,The King’s Highway, was published in 1915 andsold more than 160,000 copies.

Montgomery also served as the president of the Woman’s American BaptistForeign Mission Society (1914 - 1924). In this position, she sought to increaseaccess to education and health care for women and children. In 1915 she, alongwith two other prominent women of faith, founded the World Wide Guild, thepurpose of which was to encourage young women to pursue missionary work. Shepresided over the National Federation of Women’s Boards of Foreign Missions(1917 - 1918), and in 1921 became the first woman to be elected president of theNorthern Baptist Convention.

In 1924, Montgomery publishedThe Centenary Translation of the NewTestament. In this translation, the first by a woman scholar, she sought tomake the Greek New Testament more accessible to the "ordinary reader"by using "everyday" language.

Montgomery ensured that her good works would continue after her death. Herwill left over $450,000 to more than 80 institutions, including colleges,churches, missions and hospitals. Montgomery died at the home of her daughterEdith (Mrs. George F. Simson) in Summit, New Jersey on October 19, 1934 at theage of 73.

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