He was born Abraham Harold Littenberg.
From The Daily Argus, Mount Vernon, NY (20 Jan 1941, pg. 2, col. 1)
City Man Dies After Plunge From Building
Harold Leighton, 35, Salesman, Succumbs To Fall in New York
Harold Leighton, thirty-five, of 30 Darwood Place, died at 3:30 A.M. yesterday in City Hospital, Welfare Island, from injuries suffered Saturday morning when he plunged from an upper window of an office building at 40 East 49th Street, New York.
Leighton, who struck a ledge overlooking a second floor extension, rose to his feet and walked about 15 feet before he collapsed. Police said he told hospital physicians he had not jumped and did not know what had happened to him.
Officials of the New York Manufacturing Corporation said Leighton had been employed there for about 20 years and had a fine record.
Surviving are his wife, Sylvia, two children, Nancy and Steven; his parents, Sol and Celia Littenberg; three brothers, Max, Dave and Moe Littenberg, and two sisters, Eva Birnbaum, and Fan Shapiro.
Funeral services were held at 1:30 P.M. today at the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York.
From The Daily Argus, Mount Vernon, NY (20 Jan 1941, pg. 2, col. 1)
City Man Dies After Plunge From Building
Harold Leighton, 35, Salesman, Succumbs To Fall in New York
Harold Leighton, thirty-five, of 30 Darwood Place, died at 3:30 A.M. yesterday in City Hospital, Welfare Island, from injuries suffered Saturday morning when he plunged from an upper window of an office building at 40 East 49th Street, New York.
Leighton, who struck a ledge overlooking a second floor extension, rose to his feet and walked about 15 feet before he collapsed. Police said he told hospital physicians he had not jumped and did not know what had happened to him.
Officials of the New York Manufacturing Corporation said Leighton had been employed there for about 20 years and had a fine record.
Surviving are his wife, Sylvia, two children, Nancy and Steven; his parents, Sol and Celia Littenberg; three brothers, Max, Dave and Moe Littenberg, and two sisters, Eva Birnbaum, and Fan Shapiro.
Funeral services were held at 1:30 P.M. today at the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York.
He was born Abraham Harold Littenberg.
From The Daily Argus, Mount Vernon, NY (20 Jan 1941, pg. 2, col. 1)
City Man Dies After Plunge From Building
Harold Leighton, 35, Salesman, Succumbs To Fall in New York
Harold Leighton, thirty-five, of 30 Darwood Place, died at 3:30 A.M. yesterday in City Hospital, Welfare Island, from injuries suffered Saturday morning when he plunged from an upper window of an office building at 40 East 49th Street, New York.
Leighton, who struck a ledge overlooking a second floor extension, rose to his feet and walked about 15 feet before he collapsed. Police said he told hospital physicians he had not jumped and did not know what had happened to him.
Officials of the New York Manufacturing Corporation said Leighton had been employed there for about 20 years and had a fine record.
Surviving are his wife, Sylvia, two children, Nancy and Steven; his parents, Sol and Celia Littenberg; three brothers, Max, Dave and Moe Littenberg, and two sisters, Eva Birnbaum, and Fan Shapiro.
Funeral services were held at 1:30 P.M. today at the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York.
From The Daily Argus, Mount Vernon, NY (20 Jan 1941, pg. 2, col. 1)
City Man Dies After Plunge From Building
Harold Leighton, 35, Salesman, Succumbs To Fall in New York
Harold Leighton, thirty-five, of 30 Darwood Place, died at 3:30 A.M. yesterday in City Hospital, Welfare Island, from injuries suffered Saturday morning when he plunged from an upper window of an office building at 40 East 49th Street, New York.
Leighton, who struck a ledge overlooking a second floor extension, rose to his feet and walked about 15 feet before he collapsed. Police said he told hospital physicians he had not jumped and did not know what had happened to him.
Officials of the New York Manufacturing Corporation said Leighton had been employed there for about 20 years and had a fine record.
Surviving are his wife, Sylvia, two children, Nancy and Steven; his parents, Sol and Celia Littenberg; three brothers, Max, Dave and Moe Littenberg, and two sisters, Eva Birnbaum, and Fan Shapiro.
Funeral services were held at 1:30 P.M. today at the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York.
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