Baker, Helen C. (Helen Craig), 1888-1990

Helen Craig Baker was born in Brooklyn, New York on January 13, 1888 to Charles H. and Mary Craig Baker. She attended Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey before entering Mount Holyoke College in 1906 and graduating with a B.A. in French in 1910. She was a secretary at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey from 1910-1914, secretary to the president of Montclair (New Jersey) Normal School from 1914-1915, and secretary to the pastor of Central Presbyterian Church in Montclair from 1916-1919. Soon after World War I she worked for the Young Men's Christian Association; her duties included serving as a canteen worker in France from May-September 1919. She subsequently held a variety of clerical positions at AT&T from July 1920 until her retirment in about 1945. In 1923-1924 she also attended a secretarial school at Columbia University. She died on July 3, 1990 at age one hundred and two in Montclair, New Jersey.

From the guide to the Baker Papers MS 0817., 1906-1990, 1906-1910, (Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections)