Biography
Helena Hill Weed was the daughter of U.S. Congressman Ebenezer J. Hill; Vassar graduate (1896); one of the first women geologists in the United States. On July 4, 1917 picketed the White House with a banner reading "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed"; sentenced to three days in jail. Arrested again in January 1918 (24-hour sentence for applauding in court) and August 1918 (15 days for the Lafayette Square meeting where Wilson's words were ceremonially burned).
Stevens reports a January 1918 twenty-four-hour sentence for applauding in court and a separate August 1918 Lafayette Square arrest carrying fifteen days. The scanned entry actually prints January 1918; that label is retained in the attributed narrative without silently changing it to 1919 or assigning physical endpoints. These imposed terms do not add measured time to Weed’s already recorded July 1917 imprisonment.
Stevens’s entry adds that Weed studied at the Montana School of Mines and formerly served as a vice-president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It describes her early organizing in the Congressional Union and National Woman’s Party.
Doris Stevens, Jailed for Freedom, Appendix 4, printed page 369.
