Albee, Helen (1864-1939)
- Name:
- Albee, Helen (1864-1939)
- Title:
- Founder, Nineteenth Century Club
Exhibitor, The World's Columbian Exposition - Other Names:
- Rickey, Helen
- Born:
- 03/15/1864
- Birthplace:
- Dayton, OH
- Died:
- 10/14/1939
- Death Location:
- Tamworth, NH
- Residence:
- Dayton, OH
Minneapolis, MN
New Castle, NH
Tamworth, NH - Nationality:
- American
- Occupation:
- Started the Abnakee Rug Industry in Tamworth, NH, c. 1898. It thrived until 1916 when Helen Albee's designs and dye formulas were acquired by the Manchester Insitute of Arts and Sciences.
- Father:
- Rickey, James
- Mother:
- Jones, Rosaltha
- Spouse:
- John Albee, February 15, 1894, Minneapolis, MN
- Notes:
- "Helen R. Albee," Colorado Springs Gazette, Colorado, December 23, 1900
"The Abnakee Rug-Making," Baltimore American, Baltimore, Maryland, December 26, 1909.
Cynthia Watkins Richardson, "'A Profitable Philanthropy', The Abnakee Rug Industry of Helen Albee of Tamworth," Historical New Hampshire, 56 (Fall/Winter 2001) 3&4, front cover, 86-103.
Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States. Volume 3. Chicago, Illinois: A. N. Marquis & Company, 1903, 14.
Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives
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