January 29, 1875 [San Saba County, Texas] – January 27, 1939 [Los Angeles County, California]
[Known as a love cult, Helios was the Jazz Age creation of Edith Maida Lessing, who presided over a ramshackle compound of tents and shacks in Glassell Park that she called Mount Helios. Lessing declared free love would replace marriage, believed in communal ownership of property, and boasted that she had control over more than 1,000 men. She was imprisoned in 1922 for sending obscene material through the mail.]
