Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Plummer, Frank B. 1857 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

FRANK B. PLUMMER.

    Frank B. Plummer comes from one of the best known and most prominent
families identified with the business and agricultural industries of Lake
county. He has spent practically all his active career in this county, and in
connection with farming, and has been prosperous in material affairs and a
leading and influential spirit in civic and social matters.

    He was born in this county January 16, 1857, and is the eldest of three
children born to Abiel and Kate (Baughman) Plummer, a detailed history of the
father being given place on other pages of this volume. He has one brother
living, Edwin, who is a resident of Chicago and employed in the Masonic Temple.

    Mr. Plummer passed his early years in Lake county, and in addition to the
course at the common schools he attended the high school at Fisherville, New
Hampshire. All his active career has been spent as a farmer and stockman, and
with the exception of two years in Kansas his work has been confined to this
county. When he made his start in Kansas he had very little capital, and his own
intelligent management and industry have been the principal factors in bringing
him success.

    In September, 1881, he was married to Miss Lizzie Alexander, and of this
happy marriage two daughters have been born. Blanche, the elder, is in the
eighth grade of school and has also taken music; Beulah will graduate with the
class of 1905 from the Lowell high school. Mrs. Plummer was born in Mifflin
county, Pennsylvania, in September, 1867, and was reared and educated in her
native state. Her mother is still living in Pennsylvania, but her father is
deceased. She has been a true and worthy helpmate of her husband, and is a lady
of many social attractions and gracious and kind-hearted at home and abroad.

    After his marriage Mr. Plummer located in Lake county and began farming. He
now has charge of about a section of fine land in West Creek township, and in
1896 he erected a beautiful country residence on the estate. He gives especial
attention to the raising of stock, and has some fine registered Galloway cattle
and Poland China hogs. He has voted for Republican principles and candidates
since the time of Garfield. He and his wife are adherents of the Lake Prairie
Presbyterian church, and stand high in the social circles of the township.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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