Van Tyne, Helen Belfield Bates.

Helen Belfield Bates was born in 1896 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her father, Henry Bates, married her mother, Clara Belfield, in 1894. He served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School from 1910 to 1939.

On September 15, 1933, Helen married Josselyn Van Tyne, curator of birds for the University's Natural History Museum and a professor in the zoology department. Helen Van Tyne was both a scholar and civic activist. She wrote several history-related articles and book reviews in the 1930s, which were published in journals such as the Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review and the Journal of Modern History .

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