Background
Woodbury, Helen Sumner was born on March 12, 1876 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of George True and Katharine Eudora (Marsh) Sumner.
Woodbury, Helen Sumner was born on March 12, 1876 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States. Daughter of George True and Katharine Eudora (Marsh) Sumner.
Bachelor of Arts, Wellesley College, 1898. Honorary fellow in political economy, 1904-1906, correspondence instructor, 1907-1908, Doctor of Philosophy, 1908, University of Wisconsin.
Collaborator, American bureau of Industrial Research, since 1904. Special investigator of equal suffrage in Colorado for New York Collegiate Equal Suffrage League, 1906-1907. Industrial expert, 1913-1915, and assistant chief, 1915-1918, of children's bureau, Department of Labor.
With Institute of Economics, 1924-1926.
Author: The White Slave, 1896. Labor Problems (with Thomas South. Adams), 1905.
Equal Suffrage, 1909. History of Women in Industry (Volunteer IX, Report on Women and Children in Industry, United States Labor Bureau), 1911.
Industrial Courts in Europe, 1911.
Child Labor Legislation in the United States (with Ella A. Merritt), 1915. Administration of Child Labor Laws in Connecticut and in New York (with Ethel East. Hanks), 1915 and 1916. History of Labor in the United States (with John R. Commons, and others), 1918.
The Working Children of Boston, 1922.
Standards Applicable to the Administration of Child Labor Laws, 1924. Associate editor Documentary History of American Industrial Society, 1910.
Contributor to Dictionary of America Biography and to economics and other publications Home: New York, New New York
Married Robert Morse Woodbury, November 25, 1918.