Early Life
Leo M. Franklin was born on March 5, 1870 in Cambridge City, Indiana to Michael H. and Rachel Levy Franklin. When Franklin was four, his family moved to Cincinnati, where he attended public school. As a teenager, Franklin attended both the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College simultaneously. In 1892, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cincinnati; in the same year, he graduated from Hebrew Union (as the only member of his class), and was ordained as a rabbi. He was immediately invited to serve the Temple Israel in Omaha, Nebraska.
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