CHRISTOPHER FRANKLAND, proprietor of Frankland House, Montfort; was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1825; he came to the United States in 1849 and settled in the village of Jefferson, town of Hazel Green, Grant Co., thence to Fairview, in the same town, and engaged in mining; he first came to Montfort in 1853, where he was engaged in work for a time in the furnace; he returned to Fairview in 1854 and engaged in butchering; thence to the town of Benton, La Fayette Co., where he lived about seven years, engaged in farming and butchering; he then purchased a hotel in the town of New Diggings; afterward to the village of Benton, where he purchased and kept the United States House; thence to Montfort in April, 1874, and purchased his present hotel of J. S. Chandler; was also engaged in butchering for two years. He was married in Yorkshire, to Miss Elizabeth Hird; they have eight children, six sons and two daughters - John (now in Colorado), Elizabeth (now Mrs. James Bunt, of Montfort), Jane A. (now Mrs. James Hoskin, of Benton), Edward, James, Samuel, Christopher and William.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.