Frank J. Resnikoff, conducting business in New Haven under the name of the Boston Furniture Company, started upon his business career as a clerk in a dry goods house without pay and from that point has steadily advanced, each forward step bringing him a broader outlook and wider opportunities until he is now at the head of one of the important commercial interests of the city.

  He was born in Elizabethgrad, Russia, January 6, 1879, and in the year 1902 his father, Joseph Resnikoff, removed with his family from Russia to America. He lived for two years in New York and in 1904 came to New Haven, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits, being now associated with his son Frank in business. He wedded Mary Bogoslavski, a native of Russia, also born in Elizabethgrad, in which city she passed away in 1901 at the age of forty-two years, leaving six children.

  Frank J. Resnikoff, the second of the family, was educated in the schools of his native city and when a youth of fourteen started out to provide for his own support, beginning work, as previously indicated, as an apprentice in a dry goods store, working there for the privilege of learning the business. For his second year’s work he was paid a salary of ten dollars per month. He came with his father and the family to the new world in 1902 and has here availed himself of every opportunity for business advancement. In 1907 the Boston Furniture Company was organized and established a store at No. 862 Grand avenue. The beginning was a small and humble one but has developed into the present extensive business and from time to time they have been forced to secure larger quarters. A removal was made to Nos. 818-824 Grand avenue, but their facilities became too cramped and in May, 1916, the Boston Furniture Company secured its present five-story building at Nos. 821-823 Grand avenue. They purchased the building and today they have the leading furniture house on that street and enjoy a large and growing trade.

  On the 11th of January, 1910, Mr. Resnikoff was married in New Haven to Miss Bella Cohen, a native of that city and a daughter of Jacob and Bessie Cohen. They have one son, Marvin, who was born in 1911, and a daughter, Marcella.

  Mr. Resnikoff is a member of the Congregation of B’nai Jacob and he belongs to Horeb Lodge, I. O. B. B. His political allegiance is given to the republican party but he has never had the time nor inclination to seek office, preferring to concentrate his attention and his energies upon his business affairs, and the diligence and the determination which he has displayed have formed the foundation of his present success.