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Helen Timmons Henderson

Stories of Appalachia
Stories of Appalachia
Episode • Nov 8, 2016 • 10m
In the early part of the twentieth century, Helen Timmons Henderson came to Buchanan County, Virginia, to run the Buchanan Mission School with her husband. She did such an outstanding job of running the school that local Democratic party leaders talked her into running for state delegate in 1924, one of the first two women […]