Born May 29, 1892, in Seattle, WA; died May 12, 1944, in Italy; son of Gilbert Leander (a lawyer and bank president) and Elizabeth Uriel Faust; married Dorothy Schillig, May 29, 1917; children: Jane, John Frederick, Judith Anne. Education: University of California--Berkeley, denied diploma in 1915. Military/Wartime Service: Canadian Army, 1915-16 (deserted); United States Army, 1918.