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Svengalis, Kendall Frayne was born on May 16, 1947 in Gary, Indiana, United States. Son of Frank Anthony and Alvida Linnea (Matheus) Svengalis.
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Rising from the barren sand dunes and scrub vegetation of northwest Indiana in 1906, the city of Gary rapidly emerged as the largest American city founded in the 20th century and the home of the world's largest steel mill. Born in the boardroom of financier J. P. Morgan, and named for U.S. Steel's chairman of the board, Elbert E. Gary, Gary was the largest company town ever conceived and executed by American free enterprise. This lavish full-color pictorial and narrative history tells Gary's compelling story in rich and captivating detail, utilizing over 650 rare archival photographic and postcard images, maps, aerial photographs, and illustrations, many never before appearing in print. Gary native and historian Kendall Svengalis paints a vivid and fascinating portrait of the city's birth and formative era when an enormous infusion of capital, entrepreneurial spirit, and the muscle of thousands of recent European immigrants and American blacks combined to construct both a city and a massive steel plant. This massive, 455-page, over-sized volume, tells Gary's story in twenty chapters, each detailing an aspect of Gary's rich history and its neighborhoods. The book concludes with a fascinating case study of the author's Lithuanian pioneer family whose saga led them from the Suvalkai province of western Lithuanian to Gary in 1908. About the Author Kendall F. Svengalis is the retired Rhode Island State Law Librarian, adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island, and author of the award-winning Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual, the nation's leading consumer guide to legal information. He has maintained a lifelong interest in the history of Gary and Northwest Indiana.
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Svengalis, Kendall Frayne was born on May 16, 1947 in Gary, Indiana, United States. Son of Frank Anthony and Alvida Linnea (Matheus) Svengalis.
Bachelor, Purdue University, 1970. Master of Arts, Purdue University, 1973. Master of Library Science, University Rhode Island, 1975.
Reference librarian Roger Williams College, Bristol, Rhode Island, 1975, Providence (Rhode Island) College, 1975-1977. Assistant law librarian Rhode Island State Law Library, Providence, 1976-1982, state law librarian, 1982—2002. Adjunct professor library and information studies University Rhode Island, 1987-2006.
President Rhode Island Law Press, since 1996.
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Chairman judicial branch United Way Committee Rhode Island, 1980. President Verdandi Male Chorus, since 2000. Member American Assn Law Libraries (state, court and county library special interest section, Connie E. Bolden Significant Publication award 1993, 99, board directors 1986-1988, 96-99), Law Libraries New England (treasurer 1983-1985, vice president 1985-1986, president 1986-1987), Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (editor 1988-1994), New England Law Library.
Consortium (vice president 1990-1992, president 1992-1994), Jussi Bjorling Society (vice president), Rhode Island Swedish Heritage Association (president), North Stonington Connecticut Republican Town Commission.
Children: Hillary Linnea, Andrew Kendall. Married Ellen Christine Haffling, June 16, 2001.