Helen Binney Kitchel (September 9, 1890 - February 11, 1990) was an American politician. She is best known for her fight against billboards.[1] She was elected in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1931 to 1939. She was the first woman in Connecticut to have a bill named after her.
Kitchel was born on September 9, 1890, in Old Greenwich to parents Edwin Binney and Alice Stead Binney.[2] She attended the Catherine Aiken School in Stamford. She married Allan Farrand Kitchel 1909.[3]
Helen Binney Kitchel Natural Park was named after her,[citation needed] as is a holly grove at Greenwich Point beach.[4] In 1961 Kitchel gave the state of Connecticut a tract of land that forms what is now called Algonquin State Forest.[5]
References
edit- ^ The World of Helen Binney Kitchel
- ^ Woodside, Chris (December 15, 2015). "Helen Binney Kitchel | Chris Woodside". chriswoodside.com. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
- ^ "Kitchel Family visits Pan-American Exposition in 1901". Greenwich Historical Society. 2020-04-13. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ^ Franco, Chris (March 15, 2020). "Trailblazing Women of Greenwich Point". Greenwich Sentinel. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
- ^ "Mrs. Kitchel gives state 500-acre tract". Hartford Courant. 1961-07-06. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
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