EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800: jULIA O'REE HENSON P/16

                                                                 Read  Part One HERE                                                                                                          

In  this story I will focus on a woman named Julia O'Ree Henson. She lived from 1852 - 1922. Julia was the daughter of Henry and Ann O'Ree and was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, British North America. 

Julia emigrated to the United States in 1883 and seven years later she worked as a dressmaker and lived in a boarding house in Boston.

Julia married George D. Henson in 1894. By 1900, she and her husband operated a rooming house with 19 other residents on 25 Holyoke Street, Boston.

 Julia lived in a neighourhood near African American women leaders in social action and the arts. In 1904, she donated her home to be used for unmarried African American women - who did not have access to college dormitories or quality rooming houses - at the request of her friend Harriet Tubman, who often stayed with Julia at her home

By 1910, her husband had died and she was living alone in her mortgaged house on Arie Street. She supported herself by working as a dressmaker.

Julia founded the African American Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs with Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin. She was, furthermore, co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP). 

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