Helen Clapesattle

Helen Berniece Clapesattle (November 11, 1908 – June 15, 1993) was an American historian and publisher. While working as an editorial assistant at the University of Minnesota Press, she was hired to work on The Doctors Mayo, released in 1941. She was the UMP's director from 1953 until 1956, as well as a 1957 Guggenheim Fellow.

Biography Helen Berniece Clapesattle was born on November 11, 1908, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the daughter of Laura Rehrer and Fort Wayne pharmacist George Adam Clapesattle. After her parents died in the 1920s, she was a caretaker for three of her siblings and worked at the Allen County Public Library. Following her recovery from headaches sustained by a streetcar injury, she started attending Oberlin College, where she obtained her BA in 1934. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of the part played by the search for health in westward migration and the settlement of frontier areas in the United States". They had no children. They moved to Albuquerque in 1967. Dr. Webb of Colorado Springs (1984)