Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr.

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr.
Born (1911-03-17)March 17, 1911
Plainfield, New Jersey
Died February 18, 2001(2001-02-18) (aged 89)
Charleston, South Carolina
Education University of Michigan
Parent(s) Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
Lillian Evelyn Moller
Relatives Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, sister

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. (March 17, 1911 – February 18, 2001) was co-author, with his sister Ernestine, of Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes. Under his own name, he wrote Time Out for Happiness and Ancestors of the Dozen.

Gilbreth graduated from the University of Michigan, where he served as editor of the college newspaper, The Michigan Daily.

Biography

He was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, the 5th child (and first boy) of the 12 children born to efficiency experts Frank Gilbreth, Sr. and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and grew up in the family home in Montclair, New Jersey.[1][2] Cheaper by the Dozen, which was made into two successful films, was largely autobiographical. He also wrote about fatherhood, in the post-World War II "baby boom", and about family members.

During World War II, he served as a naval officer in the South Pacific, participated in three invasions in the Admiralty Islands and the Philippines, and was decorated with two air medals and a bronze star. In 1947, he returned to The Post and Courier as an editorial writer and columnist.[3]

In his later years, he relocated to Charleston, South Carolina, where he went on to be a journalist, author and newspaper executive. Under nom de plume Ashley Cooper, he wrote a long-running column, "Doing the Charleston,"[3] for the Charleston paper The Post and Courier; it ran until 1993.[2]

Gilbreth was married twice, to Elizabeth Cauthen (until her death in 1954) and then (1955–2001) to Mary Pringle Manigault. He had three children, one from his first marriage (Elizabeth G. Cantler, being retired as a features editor of The Post and Courier) and two from his second marriage (Dr. Edward M. Gilbreth and Rebecca G. Herres). He died in 2001, aged 89, in Charleston, South Carolina, where he had lived for the preceding half century.[2][4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Maj. Frank B. Gilbreth.". The Washington Post. June 15, 1924. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  2. 1 2 3 Wolfgang Saxon (February 20, 2001). "Frank Gilbreth Jr., 89, Author Of 'Cheaper by the Dozen'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-09. Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr., a journalist whose life-with-father memoir Cheaper by the Dozen became a best seller and a popular movie of the same title, died on Sunday in Charleston, S.C., where he had lived for the last 50 years. He was 89 and also had a home in Nantucket, Mass.
  3. 1 2 The Gilbreth Network - In Memory: Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
  4. ↑ "Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.; Co-Wrote 'Cheaper by the Dozen'". Los Angeles Times. February 23, 2001. Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., 81, coauthor of "Cheaper by the Dozen" and its sequel, "Belles on Their Toes." In South Carolina, Gilbreth was known for his popular column "Doing the Charleston," which he wrote under the pen name Ashley Cooper from the late 1940s to 1993, in the Charleston Post and Courier.

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