Maine Memory Network

Though Helen retired from active teaching in the late 1880s, she remained an educator throughout her life.

An entry in the 1905 edition of The Souvenir of Western Women, edited by Mary Osborn Douthit, described Helen as "a busy woman, active in good works and ever ready with good words, she is a dependable force in all lines in which true womanly endeavor is enlisted for the public weal."