Marshall-Miami County KS Archives Biographies.....Gaylord, Frank M. 1831 - living in 1917
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Author: B. F. Bowen

FRANK M. GAYLORD.

    Frank M. Gaylord, a native of Paola, Kansas, and one of the prominent and
well-known merchants of Axtell, Marshall county, was born on May 23, 1874, and
is the son of Jasper M. and Lucy (Stafford) Gaylord.

    Jasper M. Gaylord was born at Bridgeport, Massachusetts, in 1842. He
received his education in the schools of his native state and there grew to
manhood. As a young man he learned the dentist trade, at which he worked for
some years and was later engaged as bookkeeper and worked for Field & Leiter at
Chicago, Illinois, where he remained until 1872, when he came to Kansas and
located at Paola, where he engaged in the real-estate and insurance business
until the time of his death in 1890. His widow, Lucy Gaylord, who now resides at
Ontario, Oregon, at the age of sixty-seven years. She was born at Fox Lake,
Wisconsin, and grew to womanhood in her native state and there received her
education in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord were active in church work
and were prominent in the social life of the community in which they lived and
where they were always held in the highest regard.

    Frank M. Gaylord received his education in the public schools of Paola,
Kansas,-and was reared to manhood in that locality. At the age of fifteen years
he spent one year of his life at herding cattle on the plains of Kansas. He was
then engaged as a clerk in a grocery store and later was employed in a
department store, where he remained until 1899, when he came to Axtell, Kansas,
where he purchased a small stock of groceries and engaged in business for
himself. He added to his stock and established other lines of merchandise, and
today, by hard work and close application to business, he has one of the finest
general stores in Marshall county, carrying about twenty thousand dollars worth
of goods.

    In 1899 Mr. Gaylord was united in marriage to Anna Sheridan, who was born in
Marshall county, on August 14, 1874. After nine years of happy married life,
Mrs. Gaylord died at her home in Axtell in 1908. In 1911 Mr. Gaylord was united
in marriage to Mary P. Rice, who was born in Clay county, Missouri, on December
27, 1870. It was while a patient in the hospital at Excelsior Springs, Missouri,
that Mr. Gaylord and his second wife met, and in a short time the hospital lost
a good nurse and Mr. Gaylord won a splendid wife. They are prominent in the
social life of Axtell, where they are so well known and where they are held in
the highest regard.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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