Person:Frank Armstrong (6)

Frank H. Armstrong began to collect the works of Robinson Jeffers in 1930, when he was a sophomore at Yale, and within a decade had acquired most of what was available to the public. Hoping to find rare books or manuscript materials, he opened a correspondence with Una Jeffers in 1943. Born in 1910 in Winnetka, Illinois, Frank was the son of Horace Armstrong, chairman of the board of the giant Chicago canned goods corporation Reid-Murdock & Company. After graduating from Yale and attending the Sorbonne in Paris, Frank Armstrong received a law degree from Michigan Law School in 1936. He then moved to Los Angeles to work as an attorney for the firm of Mitchell, Silberberg, Roth & Knupp. After the United States entered World War II, Armstrong worked as a civilian assistant to the Army in Washington D.C., before moving back to Winnetka. Later, he returned to California, and settled in Palm Springs with his family. His mother moved to Santa Barbara, as did his sister Jean when she married book collector and author Edwin Corle. When he died in 1969, Frank Armstrong was buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery, and his mother and sister donated his Robinson Jeffers collection to UCSB. View options: Standard Entire finding aid </view?docId=kt2g50046r&doc.view=entire_text&brand=oac> Search within this document: Top of Form 1

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1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census (3). (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;)
   Database online. Evanston Ward 3, Cook, Illinois, ED , roll T624_240, part , page .

   Record for Frank H Armstrong II

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Ancestry.com. New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957. (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;)
   Database online.

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3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census (2). (Name: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;;)
   Database online. White Hall, Greene, Illinois, ED , roll , page , image 805.

   Record for Frank Armstong Jr.