[Ellen Martin]. American social reformer, born in Portland, ME, in 1848, of an old New England family. She was educated partly in America and partly in England, France and Germany; was married, in 1869, to Charles Henrotin, a banker in Chicago. She became a leader in the principal women’s clubs of Chicago; was made vice-president of the woman’s branch of the World’s Congress Auxiliary in Chicago, in 1893, in which she was an active worker, achieving considerable reputation thereby; in Philadelphia, in 1894, was elected president of the Federation of the Women’s Clubs of the United States; was re-elected for two years in Louisville, KY, in May 1896.
