Helen Almira Shafer

Helen Almira Shafer (born Newark, New Jersey, 23 September 1839; died Wellesley, Massachusetts, 20 January 1894) was a president of Wellesley College.

Helen Almira Shafer
Born	23 September 1839  Newark
Died	20 January 1894  (aged 54)
Alma mater	Oberlin College
Employer	Wellesley College

After graduating from Oberlin College in 1863, she was a teacher of mathematics at Central High School in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1865 until 1875. In 1877, she became professor of mathematics at Wellesley. She was made president in January 1888.

References

• Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Shafer, Helen Almira" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.