Frank family.
Biographical notes:
William and Pauline Wormser Frank were among the first Jews to settle permanently in Pittsburgh. They were founders of the earliest Jewish religious and philanthropic institutions in Pittsburgh. William Frank owned a glass factory and their descendants Isaac W. Frank, William K. Frank and James A. Frank have been prominent in Pittsburgh's engineering, steel and real estate industries as well as in Jewish religious and philanthropic activities.
From the description of Frank family papers 1846-2000 [manuscript] papers (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 233977764
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Subjects:
- Engineering
- Glass factories
- Glass manufacture
- Jews
- Philanthropy
- Rolling-mill machinery
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- Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh (as recorded)
