Klingberg, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1883-1968
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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
Biography
Klingberg was born on February 25, 1883 on a farm at Turkey Creek, Dickinson County, Kansas; AB (1907) and MA, University of Kansas; Ph.D, Yale University, 1911; researcher, Bureau of the Census and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1911-12); on faculty at University of Southern California (1912-18); lecturer, League to Enforce Peace (1918-19); appointed chairman of the History Department 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 Los Angeles.
From the guide to the Frank Joseph Klingberg Papers, 1906-1960, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)
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Subjects:
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Historians
- Historians
- Pioneers
- Reminiscing in old age
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- Kansas (as recorded)
- Kansas--Dickinson County (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Dickinson County (Kan.) (as recorded)
