AUGUSTUS P. FRINK was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., and at the age of nine years cme with his parents to this ounty. When eighteen years of age, he entered mercantile life as clerk in Fort Wayne, and was in same capacity subseuently, in Ligonier. In 1863, and until 1857, he was in trade for himself in Goshen, Ind. Soon fter this he entered the Clerk's office of this county as an assistant. In 1862, he became a member of Company A, First Indiana Heavy Artillery, and had three years' service in the army. Returning home, he entered the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, subseuently serving the same company as station agent in Ohio, returning to Kendallville, where he filled the same position, being in their employr about nine years. He then for a time conducted a hardwarebusiness, since which his occupation has been varied. At the age of twenty-one, Mr. Frink was married to Rebecca Teal; seven children were born to them, two dying in infancy. Nathan Frink, the father of A. P., was born in Oneida County, N. Y., in 1800, and at the age of twenty-one was married to Marian Pease, of Lewis ZCounty, same State. They had six children, the eldest dying in infancy. In 1836, the family ame to this county, and settled in York Township, where the mother died in 1837. In 1842, Myra E., the eldest daughter, married William Pool, who subsequently died; she then became the wife of Isaac Jopp. She had three children by her first husband, and two by the second. Harriet , the second daughter, in 1849 married Nathaniel P. Eagles, and had eight children. Agnes E. became the wife of Thomas M. Eagles in 1854, and had seven children. Charles S., the youngest son, was married in 1858 to Isabel Vermilyea; she dying, he married again a few years later; he was the father by first wife of three children, and of four by second. Nathan Frink married for his second wife Achea Kent; they had four children. His wife died in 1874, and in July, 1878, he died in Elkhart County, Ind., at the age of seventy-eight. He was a citizen of good standing, serving as Justic of the Peace for several years, and as Assessor. Goodspeed, Weston A, Richard Collins, Thomas R. Marshall, W. L. Matthews; Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: historical and biographical; Chicago, F. A. Battey & Co., 1882, p. 301-302. |
|
Biographies >
Frink, Augustus P. |
 Copyright 2011  |