Klingberg, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1883-1968

Klingberg was born on Feb. 25, 1883 on a farm at Turkey Creek, Dickinson County, KS; AB (1907) and MA, University of Kansas; Ph. D, Yale Univ., 1911; researcher, Bureau of the Census and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1911-12); on faculty at Univ. of Southern California (1912-18); lecturer, League to Enforce Peace (1918-19); appointed chairman of the History Dept. of the new Southern Branch of the University of California, serving for 18 years; was professor of history at UCLA until retirement in 1950; active in library and other university-wide committees; wrote dozens of articles for journals for the Los Angeles times editorial pages; wrote several books, including The anti-slavery movement in England : a study in English humanitarianism (1926) and An appraisal of the Negro in colonial South Carolina : a study in Americanization (1941); he died on June 4, 1968 in LA.

From the description of Papers, 1906-1960. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38963143

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