The eldest of three children , Forsythe was born as Jacob Lincoln Freund on January 29 , 1918 , in Penns Grove , New Jersey , to Blanche Materson ( née Blohm ) and Samuel Jeremiah Freund .
Forsythe born on January 29 , 1918 in Penns Grove , New Jersey to Blanche Materson ( née Blohm ) and to Samuel Jeremiah Freund . Forsythe was the oldest of three .