Frank A. Tinker Biography, Lapeer County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 1027-1028

This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives.

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FRANK A. TINKER, M. D. This prominent physician and surgeon of Lapeer, 
Mich., was born in Monroe Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 26, 
1859. He is a son of William and Selina (Fox) Tinker, and the family is 
proud to look back over the genealogic record and find the origin of 
the family in America upon Plymouth Rock, where the "Mayflower" came to 
port in 1620.

   William Tinker, Jr., the father of our subject, was the son of 
William Tinker, Sr., and is a cousin of Elizabeth M. (Tinker) Sibley, 
the widow or Hiram Sibley, the founder of the great seed company which 
bears his name. The grandfather of our subject was the son of Sylvester 
Tinker whose father Silas, was descended in a direct line from three 
who bore in succession the name of Amos. The first of these was the 
fourth child of John Tinker, who settled in New London, Conn., in 1658, 
and who was the son of one of the Pilgrim fathers, who journeyed to 
this country in the "Mayflower". The name is deprived from the River 
Tyne, on the banks of which stands a castle which has been in the 
Tinker family since the fourteenth century.

   The parents of our subject moved to Pine Run, Genesee County, when 
he was about six years of age and the father who is a machinist still 
resides there. The son received only a common school education in his 
early days and afterwards entered the High School from which he 
graduated in 1880. He then taught one year at Pine Run and entered the 
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the fall of 1881 taking the 
medical course and graduating in 1884 with the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine.

   The young Doctor after his graduation located in Lapeer where he has 
built up a good practice and has met with a satisfactory degree of 
success. He was married June 28, 1883 to Miss Effie M., daughter of 
John and Mary (Smith) Scoutten of Ann Arbor. He is the oldest in a 
family of five, four of whom are still living; his sister Edith married 
Samuel Cates, a farmer of Pine Run; Harry who is also a farmer in the 
same vicinity, took to wife Miss Jennie Miller; Lena united herself in 
marriage with Charles Scoutten, a brother of Mrs. Dr. Tinker, who is 
carrying on a drug business at Pinconning , and the sister Flora died 
in childhood. Dr. Tinker is a Democrat in his political views and is a 
member of the Board of Education now serving his second term. His 
interest in educational matters has also made him a member of the Board 
of County School Examiners. He is the Surgeon for the Michigan Central 
Railroad at this place and is also the County Physician.



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