Ohio County KyArchives Biographies.....Felix, Frank L. September 28, 1858 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandra Smith Gibertini Gibby0111@att.net March 25, 2009, 8:35 am Author: Hartford Republican Newspaper - 04 Mar 1892 - County Court Biographies FRANK L. FELIX OUR COUNTY ATTORNEY, WAS BORN NEAR OLATON, THIS COUNTY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1858, THE SON OF JAMES T. AND ELIZABETH FELIX. HE LIVED AND LABORED ON THE FARM, ATTENDING IN WINTER THE DISTRICT SCHOOL UNTIL, BY INDUSTRY, HE HAD LAID UP A LITTLE MONEY AND THEN ATTENDED SALEM COLLEGE, IN MEADE COUNTY, ONE SESSION. HE ALSO ATTENDED A SCHOOL AT CAUMER IN HART COUNTY, FINALLY GRADUATING IN THE SCIENTIFIC COURSE IN HARTFORD COLLEGE AND BUSINESS INSTITUTE IN JUNE, 1882, TAKING THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. IN THE FALL OF THAT YEAR HE WAS APPOINTED SCHOOL COMMISSIONER BY THE COUNTY COURT, WHICH POSITION HE HELD UNTIL 1884, WHEN HE WAS ELECTED SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. MR. FELIX STUDIED LAW AND ENTERED THE PRACTICE OF HIS PROFESSION, AND IN 1890 AFTER HAVING DEFEATD SOME OF THE BRAINIEST YOUNG MEN IN THE COUNTY FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION WAS ELECTED COUNTY ATTORNEY, WHICH POSITION HE NOW HOLDS. HE OWNS A HALF INTEREST IN THE HARTFORD HERALD, IN WHICH POSITION HE IS DISTINGUISHED BY THE SAME ENERGY AND EARNESTNESS THAT CHARACTERIZE HIM IN OTHER POSITIONS. MR. FELIX WON THE HAND OF THE BEAUTIFUL MISS NETTI DUNCAN OF MCHENRY AND THEY WERE MARRIED DECEMBER 4, 1889. THEY HAVE ONE CHILD, DOUGLAS DUNCAN, A PROMISING LITTLE TOT OF ONE SUMMER. MR. FELIX IS A MEMBER OF THE C. P. CHURCH HARTFORD, AND IS A MAN OF MANY FRIENDS AND ONE WHOSE MOST DINSTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC IS THAT MOST NECESSARY INGREDIENT OF SUCCESS CALLED “GO- AHEADITIVENCES.” Additional Comments: Register #0006381 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/ohio/bios/felix79bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/kyfiles/