Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Werner, Frank A. 1871 - living in 1917
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FRANK A. WERNER.

    Frank A. Werner, Editor and proprietor of the Axtell Standard at Axtell,
this county, is a native of Germany, but has been a resident of this country
since he was twelve years of age. He was born in the Prussian province of
Brandenburg on June 10, 1871; son of August and Augusta (Seidel) Werner, natives
of that same province, who came to this country more than thirty years ago and
are now living pleasantly retired at Crab Orchard, Nebraska.

    August Werner was born on August 8, 1836, and his wife was born on December
17, 1838. For twenty-three years he served as treasurer of his district in the
Fatherland, under appointment by the crown, and in 1884 came with his family to
this country and settled on a farm in Fremont county, Iowa, where he lived until
1893, in which year he moved to Crab Orchard, Nebraska, and bought the Herald, a
weekly newspaper published at that place and which he conducted until his
retirement from business, his son, Otto, now conducting the paper. August Werner
and his wife are members of the Methodist church and their children were reared
in that faith. There were nine of these children, four of whom are still living,
those besides the subject of this sketch being as follow: William F., who is
engaged in the monument business at Axtell, this county; Ernest F., who is a
farmer in Murray township, this county, and Otto, who is the editor of the
Herald at Crab Orchard, Nebraska.

    Frank A. Werner was but twelve years of age when he came to the United
States with his parents and he was reared on a farm in Iowa. In 1892 he entered
the Conservatory of Music at Lincoln, Nebraska, and there took a three-years
course in the violin and harmony, after which, in 1895, he went to Elm Creek,
Nebraska, where he became engaged as a clerk in a general store, acquiring there
a sufficient fund of experience in the mercantile business to embolden him to
embark in business on his own account. He bought a stock of merchandise at Crabb
Orchard and conducted the same until 1899, in which year he sold his store and
engaged in business with his brother, Otto Werner, in the publication of the
newspaper at Crab Orchard, and was thus engaged until 1902, when he became the
manager for George D. Dement, a fruit grower, but shortly afterward returned to
the newspaper office and was engaged there with his brother, Otto, from 1903 to
1906, in which latter year he became foreman for the Enterprise Printing Company
at Exeter, Nebraska. Two years later, in 1908, he came to Kansas and located at
Axtell, where he bought the Axtell Anchor and consolidated the same with the
Standard, which was then being published at Axtell by his brother, Ernest
Werner, the paper being conducted by the brothers, the name Standard being
retained, until 1912, when Frank A. Werner bought his brother's interest in the
paper and has since been conducting it alone, sole editor and proprietor. Mr.
Werner has a well-equipped and well-established printing plant and has built up
the circulation of the Standard from four hundred to eight hundred, the paper
having a wide popularity throughout the region it so admirably covers. Mr.
Werner is independent in his political views and the columns of his newspaper do
not reflect the theories or principles of any political party, the chief mission
of the paper being to give the news from week to week relating to Axtell and
vicinity.

    On September 17, 1897, Frank A. Werner was united in marriage to Mary
Hennek, who was born in the city of Oppeln, in Prussian Silesia, Germany,
November 21, 1878, daughter of Frank and Julia (Andreas) Hennek, who came to
this country in 1886 and settled at Lexington, Nebraska. Frank Hennek is now
living at Rapid City, South Dakota, a retired farmer. To Mr. and Mrs. Werner six
children have been born, Eva M., Frederick W., Velma G., Ralph F., Ruby R., and
Irene F. The Werners are a musical family, Mr. Werner and his four elder
children often being called on to provide orchestral music for local
entertainments. Frederick W. Werner is a trap-drummer of more than ordinary
accomplishment and all the children are skilled performers on one or more
musical instruments, while Mr. Werner is a violinist of much skill. The Werners
have a very pleasant home at Axtell and take an active part in the general
social activities of the city. Mr. Werner is a Mason and is a member of the
local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Modern Woodmen
of America, in the latter two of which organizations he has been an office
bearer, and in the affairs of all of which he takes a warm interest. He is an
active "booster" for Axtell and Marshall county and the columns of his
enterprising newspaper are ever advocating measures designed to advance the
common welfare not only of his home town, but of the county at large.


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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