B. Frank Heintzleman was born in Pennsylvania in 1888 and came to Alaska in 1918 with the U.S. Forest Service after graduating from Yale with a master's degree in forestry. He spent 16 of his 40 years with the Forest Service, serving as Alaska's Regional Forester. During that tenure, he initiated the restoration of three historic aboriginal communal houses and replaced 100 disintegrating totem poles. It was from this position that President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him governor of the territory in 1954. Mr. Heintzleman originated the plan to build the Memorial Public Library in Juneau and saw the project through. He named Baranof Castle Hill, in Sitka, Alaska's first official historical site. In 1958 he was awarded the Sir William Schlich Memorial Medal for distinguished service to forestry. Also in 1958, Juneau unanimously chose him "Man of the Year." The ridge between Lemon Creek and the Mendenhall Valley was named Heintzleman Ridge in his honor in 1966 by the National Board of Geographic Names. Mr. Heintzleman died in 1965.
From the description of B. Frank Heintzleman photograph collection [graphic], 1939-1956. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 53995714
