Helenor M. Davisson

Helenor Alter Draper Davisson was an ordained minister in the Methodist church in Indiana.

[1] Davisson was the first woman ordained in American Methodist Church.

[1] Helenor Alter was born in 1823 to John and Charity VanAusdall Alter in Pennsylvania.

[1] In 1842, Davisson joined her father in his ministry, riding with him on horseback as they worked in Indiana.

[2] Davisson was recommended for deacon's orders at the Quarterly Meeting of the Grand Prairie Circuit in 1865 and in 1866 became the first ordained woman in American Methodism.