Background
Lenahan, James Lawrence was born on November 10, 1906 in Wilkes-Barre. Son of Charles Bernard and Ellen Gertrude (Moran) Lenahan.
Lenahan, James Lawrence was born on November 10, 1906 in Wilkes-Barre. Son of Charles Bernard and Ellen Gertrude (Moran) Lenahan.
Graduate Canterbury School, 1924. Student Yale, 1924-1925.
Partner securities market West. J. Goodwin & Company, 1926-1930. Marketing development oil industry, 1930-1946. Free lance writer newspaper and magazine articles, poems, fiction, 1925-1932, head McClure Newspaper Syndicate, 1946-1952.
President, editor Columbia Features, Incorporated. since 1952, Columbia Books since 1952, American Family Features, since 1955.
Vice-president, director Children Studio, Incorporated., since 1951. Vice president, editor Adcox-Lenahan, Incorporated.
Owner Lenahan Feature Service. Active in direction oil conservation Civilian Defense during World World World War World War II Advisory Committee Improvement Massachusetts Media for Children.
Clubs: Press and Union League (San Francisco).
Married Adele Gardiner, November 9, 1925 (divorced). Married second, Ellen Wales Walpole, November 1952. Children: Charles B., Peter Gardiner, James L.