Helen Tunnicliff Catterall
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March 3, 1870
University of Chicago
Helen Tunnicliff Catterall | |
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| Born | Helen Honor Tunnicliff March 3, 1870 Macomb, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | November 10, 1933 (aged 63) Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Vassar College University of Chicago |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, writer, historian |
| Children | Ralph T. Catterall |
| Parent | Damon G. Tunnicliff |
| Relatives | Sarah Bacon Tunnicliff (sister) |
Helen Tunnicliff Catterall (March 3, 1870 – November 10, 1933) was an American lawyer, writer, and historian, based in Chicago. She is best known for her five-volume Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro, published between 1926 and 1937.
Helen Honor Tunnicliff was born in Macomb, Illinois, the daughter of judge Damon G. Tunnicliff and his second wife, Sarah Alice Bacon Tunnicliff.[1][2] She graduated from Vassar College in 1889,[3][4] and gave an address at commencement on "The New Astronomy."[5] After Vassar, Tunnicliff earned a law degree and pursued further studies in political science at the University of Chicago.[1]
Her younger sisters also graduated from Vassar.[6] Sarah Bacon Tunnicliff (1872–1957) was a director of the Woman's City Club of Chicago and a social reformer, and Ruth May Tunnicliff (1876–1946) became a medical researcher and president of the Chicago Society of Pathologists.[7][8]
