Frank John Bersbach Sr.

Frank John Bersbach Sr. (December 16, 1888 - January 26, 1929) was the vice president and general manager of the Manz Corporation.[1]

Frank John Bersbach Sr. and Harold Fowler McCormick in Logan Archbold Vilas's flying boat in 1913

Biography

He was born on December 16, 1888 in Chicago, Illinois. He married Johanna Brentano. He died on January 26, 1929.[1][2]

Legacy

Bersbach Sr.'s legacy was his son, Frank John Bersback Jr. His son would be the first of five husbands to Florida socialite Durie Malcolm, whose later third husband was the future 35th U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, whom she secretly married on January 24, 1947 in Palm Beach, Florida before he later married Jacqueline Bouvier.[3] Frank John Jr. later married actress Dorothy Lee.[4]

According to a book of biography authored by Antoinette Giancana on her father, Mafia Boss Sam Giancana, JFK's father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. went to Sam Giancana and asked him to find a way to have the JFK marriage annulled and the legal documents destroyed – which he reportedly did.

References
  1. "Frank John Bersbach". Chicago Tribune. January 27, 1929. The funeral of Frank John Bersbach, 40 year old vice president and general ... Mr. Bersbach is survived by his widow Johanna Brentano Bersbach and three ...
  2. "Frank Bersbach Dies Suddenly. Rites Tomorrow". Chicago Tribune. January 27, 1929. The funeral of Frank John Bersbach, 40 years old vice president and general manager of the Manz Engraving ...
  3. Time Magazine: "The Press: An American Genealogy", September 28, 1962.
  4. Brotherton, Jamie. Dorothy Lee: The Life and Films of the Wheeler and Woolsey Girl. p. 115.
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