Background
Jeffers, Leroy was born in August 1878 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles P. and Elizabeth B. (Stalker) Jeffers.
Jeffers, Leroy was born in August 1878 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles P. and Elizabeth B. (Stalker) Jeffers.
Manager for the Booklovers Libraries, 1901-1904. Manager Book Order Office, New York Public Library, for its system of 52 branches, since 1905. Also in main reading room for evening service, 1906-1914.
Visited European libraries, 1908.
Lecturer on The Natural Wonders of the United States, Canada and Mexico. On mountaineering in N. America, etc. Organizer, 1916, and secretary Associated Mountaineering Clubs of N. America, comprising 65 clubs and societies active in creation, development and protection of national parks and forests.
Member Council on National Parks, Forest and Wild Life. General council National Conference on Outdoor Recreation. Librarian American Alpine Club.
Fellow Royal Geography Society, London.
Member New York Library.
Married R. E. Miller, 1918.