Leo Frank Case Study

Henry McCarty, born around 1859 in the Manhattan area of New York, was more commonly known as Billy the Kid or William Bonney. His mother, Catherine, was an immigrant from Ireland who worked odd jobs to support their family. Soon after the death of her husband, Catherine, Henry, and her younger son Joseph moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where she met her future husband William Antrim. The family accompanied Antrim to Kansas, and then New Mexico after Catherine was diagnosed with tuberculosis and advised to seek a warmer, drier climate. Antrim and Catherine were married soon after the move to New Mexico.

At the age of 16, he got his first job at the local waste management company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had worked there until his death. He pushed for better stature such as pushing for African Americans to be

Alexander Kerensky had a remarkable career. He was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on May 2, 1881. His father was a head schoolmaster. Kerensky trained and graduated as a lawyer. He went on to a legal practice in St. Petersburg where he specialized in defending cases that involved political offenses.

He was born in Washington D.C but later on he moved to New York City.

     After his near death experience and fall out with Carnegie Steel Company he continued his business interests in Pittsburgh, New York, and other cities. He formed the St. Clair Steel Company in 1900, with the largest coke works in the world in Clairton. He then played a major role in the formation of United States Steel Corporation, after Carnegie sold his interests in the Carnegie Steel Company in 1901. He then began investing in a large real estate in Downtown Pittsburgh that included the Frick Building,

In 1939, Frank fulfilled one of his lifelong dreams; he married his childhood sweetheart Nancy Barbato. He had three kids: Nancy Sandra, Franklin Wayne Emmanuel (Frank Jr.), and Christina. However, in 1949, Frank divorced Nancy after ten years of marriage because of an affair involving Frank and Ava Gardner. This ran his career into a severe crisis. He was fired from his radio show, Columbia wanted him out, and six months later his New York concerts flopped! To make matters worse, he lost his voice do to vocal cord

Benjamin Franklin Norris was born on March 5, 1870 in Chicago, Illinois. When he was 14, Frank Norris moved to San Francisco with his family. From 1890 to 1894, he attended the University of California, Berkeley to study literature.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on October 27, 1858, in New York City, to Theodore Roosevelt, and Martha Bulloch. He had an older sister Anna and later he would obtain a younger brother and sister, Elliot and Corinne. His family had owned a successful plate-glass import business. As a young boy, Theodore Roosevelt (or teddy) as his family so frequently called him ( of which he wasn 't very fond), spent a lot of time inside his family 's home. He was home schooled because his illnesses and asthma. This gave him the time to delve into his passion for animals, but by his teens though, with the encouragement of his father Theodore developed strenuous exercise routines that had included weightlifting and boxing. Later Roosevelt happily went to Harvard, but unfortunately after only 2 years of being there his father passed away. The pain of losing his father fueled his passion and he graduated and moved on to Columbia law school. Roosevelt didn

As Frank Sinatra grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, and was a classic representation of an average Italian American. He was the child of two Italian American immigrants, was Roman Catholic, but unlike others, he was particularly interested in singing, and he was good at it. Sinatra started off performing at family get togethers with his ukulele and before everyone knew it he was a great American singer, actor, and producer.

Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David in 1909, one of twelve children, grew up in a Chicago ghetto with his family, who fled Russian anti-Semitism. Encouraged by his father, an immigrant tailor, to learn a musical instrument, Goodman took up the clarinet at a young

3. Details about the verdict of this person. What was the verdict? What evidence was used in the trial? Any other interesting details you can find out about the trial. Include at least 1 photo related to the verdict.

Calvin Richard Klein was born and raised in New York City's borough of the Bronx. He decided he wanted to be a fashion designer at an early age, most probably as a result of the influence of his grandmother. Leo and Flora Klein were his parents. They both worked in the grocery business. Flora’s mother, Molly Stern was an accomplished seamstress. She operated a notions shop and tailoring business where Calvin spent a lot of time as a child. (Marsh) Calvin attended P.S 80, a public school that a lot of other famous people attended including Penny and Gary Marshall and Ralph Lauren. (Marsh) At P.S 80 he excelled in art

Frank Sinatra better known as Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken New Jersey to Dolly Garamendi and Anthony Garaventi.He almost lost his own life when he wasn’t breathing. But there was one person who wasn’t going to let him die turned out to be his Grandmother Rose where she was determined to save him by running him under child water until everything came under normal when he started breathing, he came alive in the world, and he won.

After Frank’s father grew sick, the Goldberg family moved to Los Angeles where some of the family already resided. Ironically, they lived in an apartment that was close to where the Loyola Law School would be built in later years, according to Frank’s blueprints. At this time, the family was struggling for money and Frank had to find a job. He worked as a delivery truck man who installed breakfast nooks. It was through this job that Frank would meet Anita Snyder, a woman who he married later in 1952. Two years later, with the permission of his family, Frank decided to change their last name to Gehry. The couple had two daughters and the three followed Gehry to an army base in Georgia (Hines, 1986) and then to Paris (Hines, 1986; Templer, 1999). Eventually, got divorced in 1966. Frank’s relationship problems are similar to those that Gardner refers to in his geniuses’ lives (Hines, 1986). Yet, Frank got remarried ten years later to Berta Isabel

Frank was born June 8, 1867, in Richland, Wisconsin and died in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 9, 1959, at the age of 91. His Father, a musician, abandoned the family in 1885. He grew up under the leadership of