She was the daughter of Freeman Knowles and Alice Freeman Graham. She moved with the family to South Dakota in 1888. She attended Sioux Falls Business College in Sioux Falls SD.
She worked for her father as a private secretary and later as a printer and linotype operator for many years including for the Washington Daily Star and the Deadwood Pioneer Times, the Black Hills Weekly and the Lead Daily Call.
This was said about her when she first learned to set type
"She was so small she had to stand on box to reach the cases. This would be about the time the family moved to Tilford DT. She also accompanied him to Washington DC as his secretary.
She learned to operate a linotype while she was there. She set type for the Lantern and was very "quick and deft with her tiny fingers".
She married Earl Culbertson in 1906, they had children Ada, Mary, Earl and Guy. She was a widow for 40 years. She was a member of the Christian Science Church the Eastern Star and Mayflower descendants.
After he father died in 1910 the Culbertson family moved to Grants Pass OR where her husband was an intinerate typesetter. In 1916 Earl was hospitalized in Yankton South Dakota with "printers disease" he died there in 1941. Helen went back to work setting type in Deadwood SD. Her oldest daughter Ada Margaret died at the age of 12 in 1921 and her mother always blamed herself although she died of the flu.
Helen retired from newspaper work in 1952 and was honorned by Cal Poly Royal San Luis Obispo as a top linotype settter.
She worked for her father as a private secretary and later as a printer and linotype operator for many years including for the Washington Daily Star and the Deadwood Pioneer Times, the Black Hills Weekly and the Lead Daily Call.
This was said about her when she first learned to set type
"She was so small she had to stand on box to reach the cases. This would be about the time the family moved to Tilford DT. She also accompanied him to Washington DC as his secretary.
She learned to operate a linotype while she was there. She set type for the Lantern and was very "quick and deft with her tiny fingers".
She married Earl Culbertson in 1906, they had children Ada, Mary, Earl and Guy. She was a widow for 40 years. She was a member of the Christian Science Church the Eastern Star and Mayflower descendants.
After he father died in 1910 the Culbertson family moved to Grants Pass OR where her husband was an intinerate typesetter. In 1916 Earl was hospitalized in Yankton South Dakota with "printers disease" he died there in 1941. Helen went back to work setting type in Deadwood SD. Her oldest daughter Ada Margaret died at the age of 12 in 1921 and her mother always blamed herself although she died of the flu.
Helen retired from newspaper work in 1952 and was honorned by Cal Poly Royal San Luis Obispo as a top linotype settter.
She was the daughter of Freeman Knowles and Alice Freeman Graham. She moved with the family to South Dakota in 1888. She attended Sioux Falls Business College in Sioux Falls SD.
She worked for her father as a private secretary and later as a printer and linotype operator for many years including for the Washington Daily Star and the Deadwood Pioneer Times, the Black Hills Weekly and the Lead Daily Call.
This was said about her when she first learned to set type
"She was so small she had to stand on box to reach the cases. This would be about the time the family moved to Tilford DT. She also accompanied him to Washington DC as his secretary.
She learned to operate a linotype while she was there. She set type for the Lantern and was very "quick and deft with her tiny fingers".
She married Earl Culbertson in 1906, they had children Ada, Mary, Earl and Guy. She was a widow for 40 years. She was a member of the Christian Science Church the Eastern Star and Mayflower descendants.
After he father died in 1910 the Culbertson family moved to Grants Pass OR where her husband was an intinerate typesetter. In 1916 Earl was hospitalized in Yankton South Dakota with "printers disease" he died there in 1941. Helen went back to work setting type in Deadwood SD. Her oldest daughter Ada Margaret died at the age of 12 in 1921 and her mother always blamed herself although she died of the flu.
Helen retired from newspaper work in 1952 and was honorned by Cal Poly Royal San Luis Obispo as a top linotype settter.
She worked for her father as a private secretary and later as a printer and linotype operator for many years including for the Washington Daily Star and the Deadwood Pioneer Times, the Black Hills Weekly and the Lead Daily Call.
This was said about her when she first learned to set type
"She was so small she had to stand on box to reach the cases. This would be about the time the family moved to Tilford DT. She also accompanied him to Washington DC as his secretary.
She learned to operate a linotype while she was there. She set type for the Lantern and was very "quick and deft with her tiny fingers".
She married Earl Culbertson in 1906, they had children Ada, Mary, Earl and Guy. She was a widow for 40 years. She was a member of the Christian Science Church the Eastern Star and Mayflower descendants.
After he father died in 1910 the Culbertson family moved to Grants Pass OR where her husband was an intinerate typesetter. In 1916 Earl was hospitalized in Yankton South Dakota with "printers disease" he died there in 1941. Helen went back to work setting type in Deadwood SD. Her oldest daughter Ada Margaret died at the age of 12 in 1921 and her mother always blamed herself although she died of the flu.
Helen retired from newspaper work in 1952 and was honorned by Cal Poly Royal San Luis Obispo as a top linotype settter.
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