Helen M. Jenison (b. Butler) (1830-1897) was born in Pompey, New York, and died in Lansing, Michigan. Around 1840 she moved with her family to Adrian, Michigan, and a few years later to Lansing, where she married Orien A. Jenison, a bookkeeper, in 1851. Active in the women's suffrage movement, Jenison was an organizer and charter member of the Lansing Women's Club and served as secretary of the Women's Monument Association in Lansing. Jenison was acquainted with Annie M. Knott, one of Mary Baker Eddy's students, and in 1897 received Christian Science treatment from Knott's student Kate H. Pierce, a practitioner listed in The Christian Science Journal in Lansing and a member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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