Helen Hawthorn MacMartin was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891 and died in Berlin, Vermont, in 1997. She was a graduate of William Smith College and did graduate work at the Simmons School of Social Work in Boston. She worked as a placement interviewer with the U.S. Employment Service in Burlington, Springfield, and Windsor, Vermont, from 1936 to 1948 when she resigned to devote her time to concerns with peace and justice. She served as secretary-treasurer for the Vermont Progressive Party and as state director of the Wallace for President Committee in 1948. She continued active involvement in social and political causes for many years.
From the description of Progressive Party papers, 1948-1953. (Vermont Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 50901120
