Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck

Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck was a leading Manhattan surgeon at Sydenham and Harlem Hospital.

Biography

He was born on December 22, 1891, in New York City.
He married Erna Mankiewicz, she was the sister of Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Herman Mankiewicz.
He was accused of working for Soviet intelligence and acting as a dead drop and receiver of stolen blueprints for Robert Osman in 1933. That same year he was working in Harlem Hospital. In 1934 he was president of the Mount Sinai Hospital alumni executive board. In 1939 he was made a medical officer earning $5,000 a year in the New York City Fire Department.
He died on June 1, 1951.