Background
Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim was born on February 24, 1883 in Czernautz, Austria. Son of Abraham and Jeanette (Rottenstreich) Frachtenberg.
Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim was born on February 24, 1883 in Czernautz, Austria. Son of Abraham and Jeanette (Rottenstreich) Frachtenberg.
Graduate Imperial Royal Gymnasium, Przemysl, Austria, 1904. Studied Cornell Univercity, 1904-1905. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1906, Doctor of Philosophy, 1910.
Assistant superintendent Ednl. Alliance, New York City, 1907-1909. Expert to Commision on Crime and Dependency, New Jersey, 1909.
Assistant United States Immigration Commission, 1909-1910.
Chief of foreign population, United States Census for New York City, 1910. Lecturer on anthropology, Columbia, 1910-1912.
Ethnologist, bureau of America Ethnology, 1913-1917. Translator, Department of Justice (war work), Committee on Public Information, 1917-1918.
Head worker Jewish Welfare Board, at Camp Humphreys, Virginia, and Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918-1919.
Director service clubs, rank of captain, and supervisor service clubs, rank of lieutenant colonel, for Central Department, United States of America, 1919-1920. Honorary discharge from army, November 7, 1920. General secretary Y.M. Hebrew Association, Troy, New York, June 1921.
Regional director Palestine Foundation Fund, 1922-1923, national field director, since 1923, executive director region 4, 1922-1927, region 10, since 1927.
Researches among Indians of North. America, especially those living on Pacific Coast, seeking establishment of genetic relationships between several languages spoken by Indians of Northwest Coast.
Fellow American Ethnological Society, American Geography Society. Democrat:.
Married Claudia East. McDonald, May 22, 1913. Children: Margaret Janet, Maurice James, Richard (deceased).