Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Sheldon, Frank Dow 1853 - 1916
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FRANK DOW SHELDON.

    Frank Dow Sheldon, now deceased, and formerly one of the highly respected
and successful men of Blue Rapids, Marshall county, was born on September 4,
1853, in Aurora township, Portage county, Ohio, being the son of Albert Russell
Sheldon, of Ohio, and Cornelia (Dow) Sheldon, who was born in Brattleboro, Vermont.

    Mr. Sheldon's ancestors were of an old Connecticut family, several members
of whom served in the militia and took an active part in the Revolutionary War.
In 1800 his great grandfather, Ebenezer Sheldon, moved to Portage county, Ohio,
taking possession of a tract of land in the Western Reserve, granted by the
state of Connecticut to those who had helped during the war. This farm is still
in possession of the Sheldon family and there Frank Dow Sheldon grew to manhood.
After completing his education in the common schools, he entered Hiram College,
Hiram, Ohio, from which institution he was later graduated. He then taught
school for four years, after which he entered the drug business at Burton, Ohio,
where he remained for ten years. In 1888 he came to Kansas and established
himself in business at Blue Rapids, and became one of the highly respected and
successful business men of the county. Before coming to the state he had married
Mrs. Lottie (Cooley) Scott, the daughter of Festus Cooley, one of the early
pioneers of this section of the state. To this marriage one son, Festus Cooley
Sheldon, and one daughter, Cornelia Beaula Sheldon were born.

    Lottie Cooley Sheldon died in 1890. On October 1, 1902, Frank Dow Sheldon
married Mrs. Carrie Van Tine Liscom, the daughter of Charles and Harriet (Cady)
Van Tine, with whom he lived until the time of his death on October 21, 1916,
after a sickness of over two years had worn him to but a shadow of his old-time
vigor and self. After the death of his wife in 1890, Mr. Sheldon returned to the
old home in Ohio, his little daughter dying there in 1897. He later returned to
Blue Rapids with his son to take charge of business interests there. In 1907 he
built his fine home on a twelve-acre orchard tract on East avenue; this he later
had platted. It is now the "Sheldon Subdivision" of Blue Rapid City and
comprises a very desirable residential section of the town. Mr. Sheldon was
closely connected with the business interests of the town for many years. A
member of the Christian church, he always took the keenest interest in religious
work. He was a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and politically,
was identified with the Republican party. He was a man who took the greatest
interest in the growth and development of his home community, where he was
recognized as a man of the highest integrity and purpose. He and Carrie V.
Sheldon were the parents of one daughter, Frances Dow Sheldon, whose birth
occurred on February 22, 1907.

    Carrie Van Tine Sheldon was born in Atlas township, Genesee county,
Michigan, and there she received her education in the public schools. Her
parents, Charles and Harriet (Cady). Van Tine, were natives of the state of New
York, having been born in Erie county, and were among the early settlers of
Genesee county, Michigan, where they settled in the thirties. There the
daughter, Carrie, married in 1883, Albert H. Liscom, of Goodrich that state. He
was a well-known farmer and stockman, and engaged in that work until the time of
his death. He and his wife were the parents of one child, Dena Van Tine Liscom.
now the wife of Harold H. Wanamaker, of Blue Rapids. Charles Van Tine was one of
the Michigan men who, in 1849, made the trip to California. He and his party
made the trip on horseback, and passed over the old trail in Marshall county.
They made. the return trip by way of ocean steamer. Mrs. Sheldon's ancestry is
traced back to the time of the Dutch rule of New Amsterdam.

    Mrs. Carrie V. Sheldon is a woman of pleasing qualities and is possessed of
much ability. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Sheldon, she was state
commander of the Supreme Hive of the Maccabees of the state of Kansas, having
been sent to the state by the supreme hive, with headquarters at Topeka, where
she was married. Mrs. Sheldon united with the Presbyterian church and has been
for fourteen years a director of the board of the public library and was for six
years president of the library board; also a member of the Tuesday Afternoon
Club, of Blue Rapids.


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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