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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.
Frank Bunker Gilbreth (July 7, 1868 – June 14, 1924) was an American engineer, consultant, and author known as an early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of time and motion study, and is perhaps best known as the father and central figure of Cheaper by the Dozen.
Cheaper by the Dozen is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, published in 1948. The novel recounts the authors' childhood lives growing up in a household of 12 children.
Frank Bunker Gilbreth was an American engineer who, with his wife, Lillian Gilbreth, developed the method of time-and-motion study, as applied to the work habits of industrial employees, to increase their efficiency and hence their output.
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May 17, 2016 · Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, Jr. | South Carolina Encyclopedia. March 17, 1911–February 18, 2001. Article Images. For his popular column, “Doing the Charleston,” Gilbreth wrote under the pseudonym Ashley Cooper. The column became one of the longest running in American newspaper history. 2 minutes to read. Writer, newspaper columnist.
Feb 18, 2001 · Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. Author. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, he grew up in Montclair, New Jersey with eleven brothers and sisters and was graduated from the University of Michigan, where he served as editor of the college newspaper, The Michigan Daily. He then worked as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune.
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Feb 20, 2001 · 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...