Bio of GREAVES, Frank William (b.1864), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

FRANK WILLIAM GREAVES - Vol II, pg 558-561
For thirty-six years Frank William Greaves has been a resident of Minneapolis
and no man is better known or more highly respected in business circles of the
Twin cities. His initiative spirit and administrative powers have found
expression in the development of a large mercantile enterprise and in financial
affairs he also figures con­spicuously, his efforts being resultant factors in
whatever he undertakes. He was born in the state of New York, March 26, 1864,
and his parents were George Turner and Susan D. (Pease) Greaves, the former a
native of England and the latter of New York. As a young man the father came to
the United States, locating at Ramapo, New York, where he engaged in the making
of steel cutlery, being an expert in that line of work. His demise occurred in
that state.
After completing his public school course Frank W. Greaves became a student at
the normal school at Cortland, New York, after which he took up the study of
telegraphy, and was operator for the Lackawanna Railroad at Lisle, that state.
For a few years he followed that occupation and in October, 1883, when nineteen
years of age, he arrived in St. Paul, Minnesota, securing employment with the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, with which he remained for one and a half
years. In the latter part of 1884 he became Minneapolis representative for the
firm of Cumner, Jones & Company of Boston, Massachusetts, wholesale dealers in
tailors' trimmings, and two years later he entered this line of activity on his
own account, opening a store at No. 244 Nicollet avenue. He afterward removed to
No. 308 First Avenue, South, later to No. 38 South Third street and subsequently
secured a lease on the property at Nos. 10-14 North Fifth street, where he is
now located. He remodeled the building and now has one of the largest and most
complete establishments of this character in the city He handles trimming
supplies for merchant tailors, dressmakers, furriers and army posts, catering
only to the wholesale trade, and he gives his close personal attention to every
detail of the business displaying marked enterprise and executive ability in its
management. This constitutes but one phase of his activities, however, for he is
also vice president of the Gateway State Bank, vice president and a director of
the Midland Life Insurance Company of St. Paul, a director of the Midland Trust
& Savings Bank of St. Paul and is serving as secretary of the La Salle Motor Car
Company. He possesses the poise, self-reliance and business sagacity necessary
to carry on large enterprises successfully and in the many fields in which he is
operating the strength of his mental endowments and the force of his character
have placed him in the vanguard.
Mr. Greaves has been married twice. In 1883 he wedded Miss Lelia Teel of
Minneapolis, who passed away, leaving three daughters: Florence, Lelia and
Margaret. Some time later he married Miss Irene M. Teel, a sister of his first
wife, and they have a daughter, Susan. Mr. Greaves is a popular clubman, having
membership with the Town & Country, Interlachen, Rotary and Minneapolis Athletic
clubs, and in Masonry he has taken the thirty-second degree in the consistory,
being also a member of Zuhrah Temple, No. 19, of the Mystic Shrine, while he is
likewise connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Along the path
of opportunity open to all Mr. Greaves has reached the goal of notable success,
his progress being due to the fact that he has recognized and utilized
advantages which others have passed heedlessly by. He has followed constructive
methods, bending his efforts to administrative direction and executive control,
and his contribution to the business development of the Twin Cities has been an
important one.