Miss Helen Louise Safford of Antioch, IL
graduated from Wheaton College in 1912 with an A.B. degree in General
Science. She was born on December 3, 1890, at Rock Falls, Whiteside
County, Illinois to Albert Walter (A.W.) Safford and Martha Eliza
Foote. Her two older siblings were George Chester and Clara Mildred.
Helen graduated from the Rochester Academy prepatory school in
Rochester, WI in 1908. Her father, A.W. Safford, was the pastor of the
Millburn Congregational Church from 1905-1919, founded by Blanchard
associate Flavel Bascom in 1841. She died on November 23, 1976 in La
Grange Park, IL. She was survived by her nephew, Donald S. Wheaton and
older sister Clara, who married Ralph Lowrie Wheaton, son of F.E.
Wheaton and founder of F.E. Wheaton & Company. |
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