Dr. Edgar J. Helms Quiz

1. Edgar Helms was born in a small town near this city.

2. As a young man, Edgar Helms tried his hand at _____________ and ______________.

3. In 1889, Edgar Helms enrolled in _________________ Theological School.

4. Edgar Helms and two fellow students requested that the City Missionary Society support them in opening a full-scale settlement house in the North End of Boston. Instead, he was offered a struggling inner-city mission in Boston’s South End, __________________, established a generation earlier by ____________________.

5. In 1892, Edgar Helms married his childhood sweetheart, __________________.

6. In December __________, before he could see the tremendous growth of the important organization he founded, Reverend Edgar J. Helms died.

7. Before the name Goodwill, Edgar Helms’ organization was known as the _____________________. It was incorporated in 1905 and, with seed money from the parish, Helms was able to travel across the United States spreading the idea of "not a charity, but a chance."

8. Using ______________ from Thomas Wood and Company, Edgar Helms went door-to-door in Boston’s wealthiest districts asking for donations of clothing and household goods.

9. Edgar J. Helms remains are interred at _________________________________.

10. As a result of a childhood injury, Edgar Helms _________________________.