births
January 24, 1869
Helena Maud Brown Cobb, American educator and missionary (died 1922)
Helena B. Cobb
Helena B. Cobb was an American educator and missionary from Georgia. Born in Monroe County, Georgia, she attended Atlanta University and served as an educator and principal at many schools for African Americans in the state. She was also active in organizing and pushing for greater missionary opportunities for women within the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. In the early 1900s she founded Helena B. Cobb Institute in Barnesville, Georgia.
January 24
January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 341 days remain until the end of the year.