I love this story.

St. Paul housewife makes models! She was named as Mrs. Wilmot Macklin, in the convention of the day, which was awful. Later she’s described as “the former Frances Galpin of Appleton, Wisconsin.”

Okay, that’s helpful; off to google and hit the genealogy sites . . .

Holy fargin’ crow. Boom:

Alfred Galpin (1901–1983) was an American literary academic and musical composer of classical works. He is now best known as a close friend and correspondent of the author H. P. Lovecraft.

I think he was her uncle.

Alfred Galpin was a young prodigy, the son of the banker and inventor Alfred Galpin, Jr. (1841–1924) of Appleton, Wisconsin. As a teenager he was mentored by H. P. Lovecraft, who had been alerted to the boy's brilliance by his teacher Maurice W. Moe and his participation in amateur journalism. Lovecraft quickly came to think of Galpin as an honorary "grandson", and nicknamed him "Alfredus"; the two wrote a number of poems for each other and engaged in the Gallomo correspondence circle together. Galpin most notably introduced to Lovecraft the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, and the fiction of Clark Ashton Smith.

Can’t be her father, since I found a yearbook that put her as 19 in ’41, meaning, born in 1923.

In the mid-1920s Galpin went to Paris, where he lived the bohemian student life and married a French woman. He attended the Sorbonne in Paris in 1931–1932, thereafter during the 1930s living with his wife in fascist Italy where he was a professional composer and pianist. Upon H. P. Lovecraft's death in 1937 Galpin wrote a moving piece for solo piano, "Lament for H. P. L.”