Lucinda Barbour Helm
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| Born | Lucinda Barbour Helm December 23, 1839 Helm Place, near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | November 15, 1897 (aged 57) |
| Resting place | Helm Place |
| Pen name | Lucile |
| Occupation | author, editor, and women's religious activist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | U.S. |
Lucinda Barbour Helm (pen name, Lucile; December 23, 1839 - November 15, 1897) was a 19th-century American author, editor, and women's religious activist from Kentucky. She wrote sketches, short stories, and religious leaflets. Helm published one volume, Gerard: The Call of the Church Bell. She was an active member of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and of the International Christian Workers' Association.
Helm was the founder of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1892, the publication of a magazine called Our Homes was begun, with Helm as editor. In 1893, she resigned as General Secretary of the Woman's Parsonage and Home Mission Society because of overwork and spent her remaining years editing Our Homes. She died in 1897 is buried at her place of birth, Helm Place.
Lucinda Barbour Helm was born in Helm Place, near Elizabethtown, Kentucky, December 23, 1839. She is the granddaughter of Benjamin Hardin, the satirist, humorist and jurist of Kentucky, and the daughter of John L. Helm, twice governor of Kentucky. Her paternal grandfather, Thomas Helm, went to Kentucky in American Revolutionary War times and settled near Elizabethtown. That place, known as Helm Place, is still in the possession of the family. Her mother, Lucinda B. Hardin, the oldest daughter of Benjamin Hardin, was a woman of culture. She early trained her children to a love for books. An important personage, who figured largely in the home of her childhood, was old Aunt Gilly. She was nurse to all the eleven children; but little Lucinda was preeminently her " chile," partly because her ill health so frequently made her require a nurse's care. When she was about 11 years old her father became governor of the state, succeeding J. J. Crittenden, who resigned to accept a place in President Taylor's cabinet. He removed his family at this time from their country home near Elizabethtown to the seat of government at Frankfort. Here she was brought into contact with new people, but she was glad when the family returned at the end of a year to their old home. Her father, after serving the first term as governor, applied himself to his profession of attorney for the three years following, and then became president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Lucinda was proud of her father and wrote an article when she became older, calling it, "My Father". Helm's siblings included, Ben Hardin Helm, a lawyer, who married Mary Todd Lincoln's sister; Lizzie Barbour Helm, who married Horatio Washington Bruce; George Helm, lawyer; Emily Palmer Helm, and Mary Helm. Mary was, for several years the editor of Our Homes. She was also the author of a book on African-Americans in the South, and the author of The Society Novel: a protest and a warning.
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