Frances St John Chappelle

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Frances Arcadia Willoughby St. John Chappelle (July 2, 1897 – September 6, 1936) was an American psychologist who worked as an Assistant in Psychology at the University of Nevada. She was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Lettie Willoughby St. John, a direct descendant of the first Lord Willoughby and one of the first women to graduate from a medical college. Frances studied at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania, and did graduate work in French, psychology, and anthropology at the University of Toulouse in France. After graduation she joined the psychology clinic at the University of Pennsylvania. She moved to Reno, Nevada in 1924 and lived at 576 Ridge Street. In 1925 she married Benjamin Franklin Chappelle. She served as the state president of the Nevada League of Women Voters and taught private classes for the YWCA. She was a member of the Twentieth Century Club, League of Women Voters, AAUW, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Phi Kappa Phi. Frances Chappelle died on September 6, 1936, in Reno, five days after the birth of her only daughter; another daughter died at birth in 1934. She is buried at Chapel of the Chimes, Columbarium and Mausoleum in Oakland, California.