Helen Chadwick Thayer (née Rand; October 3, 1863 – April 14, 1935) was an American suffragist and social reformer.
Helen Chadwick Rand was born in Morrisania, Westchester County, New York (now the Bronx) on October 3, 1863.
[1][2] At the same time that Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr were starting Hull House in Chicago, a group of Smith College alumnæ, chief among whom were Thayer, Vida Dutton Scudder, Clara French, and Jean Fine Spahr, was pressing for the establishment of a settlement house in the Eastern U.S.[3] In 1889, Thayer was a co-founders of the CSA, Rivington Street, New York City; she served as president of the CSA beginning in 1907.
[1] Thayer was involved with various civic, educational, and philanthropic societies,[1] and was active in local women's clubs.
[2] In religion, a Congregationalist, she was active in church and parish work,[2] serving as president of the New Hampshire Congregational Conference.