õPARA íPAR@`ÿÿÿÿÿÿ …TEXT` wHenrotin, Ellen Martin 1847Ð1922 clubwoman and reformer Born on July 6, 1847, in Portland, Maine, Ellen Martin grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, and from the age of thirteen on the Isle of Wight. After attending schools in London, Paris, and Dresden she moved with her family to Chicago in 1868. In September 1869 she married Charles Henrotin, a financier and later founder and first president (1882Ð1884) of the Chicago Stock Exchange. An eminent figure in Chicago society, she joined in 1874 the year-old Fortnightly Club, of which she soon became a leading member. A decade later she also joined the Chicago WomanÕs Club, and in 1887 she was a co-founder of the Friday Club. In 1892 her suggestion that women be represented in the Congress Auxiliary, the organizing body for cultural and scholarly conferences to be held in conjunction with the WorldÕs Columbian Exposition, was adopted by the exposition directors. She was made vice-president of the WomanÕs Branch under her friend Bertha H. Palmer, but because Palmer was preoccupied as head of the expositionÕs Board of Lady Managers the work of the WomanÕs Branch fell entirely on Ellen Henrotin. Her conspicuous success in introducing women and womenÕs interests into the various committees planning more than 200 congresses and her special personal efforts and public appearances during the course of the exposition in 1893 made the Chicago fair a national focal point for feminist activity. In recognition of her ability Henrotin was elected president of the General Federation of WomenÕs Clubs convening in Philadelphia in May 1894. During her four years in that post she oversaw the formation of 20 new state federations and the doubling of the number of womenÕs clubs in the nation. In 1903Ð1904 she was president of the Chicago WomanÕs Club, which in the latter year under her leadership sponsored a conference on ÒWomen in Industry.Ó During 1904Ð1906 she was president of the Fortnightly Club, and from 1904 to 1907 she was president of the National WomenÕs Trade Union League. She led in organizing a ÒChicago Industrial ExhibitÓ in 1907 to arouse public opinion against child labor and unsafe working conditions for women. In 1910 she headed a citizensÕ committee that was of substantial effect in achieving a settlement of the Chicago garment strike favorable to the workers. In March 1910 Henrotin was appointed by Mayor Fred A. Busse to the Chicago Vice Commission, whose report, The Social Evil in Chicago, 1911, led to the closing of hundreds of brothels in the city. She served also for many years as president of the Park Ridge School and as chairman of the executive committee of the Amanda Smith School, both institutions for dependent girls. In 1912 she was elected a trustee of the University of Illinois. After her husbandÕs death in 1914 she gradually withdrew from public life. She died in Cherryplain, New York, on June 29, 1922. &styl`!5ª5ª!5ª9!Iâ!IÞò!I¶ 5ª·!I : 5ª ;!I ¥!I ¿!I w!IÞ ƒ!I.link`HYPRâòHYPR w ƒ