[T1S1] immigration of great-grandfather William Frank from Bavaria to the United States, 1819; William Frank's early employment as a peddler and in a dry goods store in Ohio; marriage to Pauline Wormser; the couple moves to Pittsburgh in 1845; William Frank becomes a supplier of glass jars to H. J. Heinz, Company; factory burns in 1874; William Frank founds the Hebrew Benevolent Society, the first organized Jewish charitable organization; his death in 1891; a list of his children, including Isaac Frank, James' grandfather; discussion of the William Frank and Sons glass manufacturing business; James collection of Frank bottles; publication of William Frank's memoirs by the Jewish Archives; history of great-grandmother Wormser's family from Worms, Bavaria; education of grandfather Isaac Frank at the University of Pittsburgh and Rensselaer Polytechnical in Troy, NY; degree in civil engineering; a history of his employment as an engineer; 1892, founded the Frank Kneeland Machine Company with Edward Kneeland on Fifty-fourth Street in Pittsburgh; his commission by J. P. Morgan to survey the sheet mills of the United States; Isaac Frank, founder and first president, United Engineering and Foundry Company, 1901; his marriage to Teenie Klee in 1883; a list of their children, including William Frank, James' father.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.139_t1s1
Relation
ais196440.139
"Frank, James A. - 1975" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Frank, James A. - 1975
Creator
National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pittsburgh Section
Description
Frank, James comes from a long line of entrepreneurs and philanthropists who were founders in the steel industry; year of birth, 1918.
Contributor
Frank, James A. (interviewee), Heymann, Bessie;Silverblatt, Gertrude (interviewer), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1975
Type
oral histories (literary genre), Sound
Identifier
pitt:ais196440.139
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