Ellen Martin Henrotin (6 July 1847 - 29 June 1922) was a wealthy American society matron, labor reform activist, club leader and social reformer affiliated with social welfare and suffrage movements.
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Early years and education
Henrotin was born in 1847 in Portland, Maine, the daughter of Edward Byam and Sarah Ellen Martin, and the second of six children. During her youth, she lived in England, and attended schools in London, Paris, and Dresden, 1860-68. Returning to the US in 1868, she married Charles Henrotin, one of the founders of the Chicago Stock Exchange, on September 2, 1869 in Chicago. Their children were Edward Clement (born 1871), Charles Martin (born 1876), and Morris Bates (born 1885).
Career
She served as Vice President of the Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; President of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, 1894-98; President of The Fortnightly; as well as Trustee, University of Illinois, 1912-17. She was decorated by the Sultan of Turkey with the order of Chefakat, 1893; made an Officer de 1'Academie by French Republic, 1899; decorated by Leopold II, Chevalier de l'Ordre de Leopold, 1904. She was a member of the Fortnightly Club of Chicago; Friday Club; Chicago Woman's Club; and Woman's City Club.
Henrotin lived at 1215 Madison Avenue, in New York City. She died in 1922.