George R. Frank From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 577.

Geo. R. Frank Portrait

From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 964.

TOWN OF MUSCODA

GEORGE R. FRANK, Muscoda; was born in the town of Gray, Cumberland Co., Me., May 2, 1824. Attended the common school, also the high school at Gray's Corner and Westbrook Seminary; taught school four winters in Maine, commencing at 17 years of age. Left home in March, 1845, went to Boston; thence to Buffalo, N. Y., and, in September, to Chicago; thence to Galena, and from there to Benton, La Fayette Co., and taught school during the winter. In the spring of 1846, came to Grant Co., and engaged in teaching, speculating and farming till 1875, and then purchased a farm just over the line in Iowa Co. Has a farm of about 500 acres, and is engaged in stock-raising. In 1848, married Matilda Price in the town of Harrison, Grant Co.; she was born in Indiana, and came to Grant Co., with her parents, in 1836, when she was but 6 years old; her parents, Zachariah Price and Elizabeth Price, live at Mankato, Minn., and are engaged in farming. Have seven children - Alpheus E., attorney, Deadwood, Dak.; Charles E., broker, Virginia City, Nev.; Florence C., wife of Charles J. McKittrick, merchant, Muscoda; Noma E., William E., George E. and Freddie are living at home. Has held the offices of Town Clerk, Town Superintendent of Schools, Justice of the Peace, Town Supervisor and member of the County Board of Supervisors. Has been Deputy U. S. Marshal, Deputy U. S. Collector and Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue. In August, 1862, raised Co. B, of the 33d W. V. I.; was chosen Captain and commissioned Aug. 16, 1862, and served three years; was commissioned Major of the regiment Feb. 4, 1865, and mustered in as such at Spanish Fort, Ala., April 5, to take effect March 2, 1865; was in all the battles and skirmishes in which the regiment was engaged, including the battle of Coldwater, siege of Vickburg, Red River expedition, battle of Tupelo, battle of Nashville and siege of Spanish Fort; was in the charge that broke the rebel line in the first day's fight at Nashville; was wounded while leading the advance on Spanish Fort. His father Alpheus Frank, died in Portland, at the residence of his daughter Mrs. Eliza Haskell. He was one of the substantial farmers of Gray, a man of the strictest integrity, of quiet and unassuming manner, and was held in high esteem by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He passed his life in Gray, and there reared a large family.

 


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