Bio of HEFFELFINGER, Frank Totton (b.1869), 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 TOTTON HEFFELFINGER - Vol II, pg 242-245
An outstanding figure in Minneapolis is Frank Totton Heffelfinger, the president
of the firm of F. H. Peavey & Company, and also the president of the Civic &
Commerce Association. The one indicates the prominent position to which he has
attained in commercial circles, the other is indicative of the deep interest
which he feels and the active service which he renders in connection with the
development, progress and growth of the city. Minneapolis numbers him among her
native sons, his birth having occurred September 20, 1869, his parents being
Christopher B. and Mary Ellen (Totton) Heffelfinger, who were natives of
Pennsylvania. The father came to Minneapolis in 1858 and the lady whom he
afterward wedded arrived here in 1865. The former was a boot and shoe merchant,
becoming one of the early business men of this city and after engaging in the
retail trade for awhile he turned his attention to the wholesale trade and to
shoe manufacturing, building up a business of extensive proportions. He served
with the rank of major in the First Minnesota Regiment, which responded to the
first call for volunteers in the Civil war. He was in all of the prominent
engagements, from the first battle of Bull Run to Gettysburg and his own valor
and loyalty inspired his men to deeds of courage and bravery. After the war he
returned to Minneapolis and was made a major in the regular army, being
stationed at Fort Snelling but resigned soon after he had received his
commission, preferring the activities of civil life. He had participated in the
famous charge at Gettysburg and in other engagements which lent material aid to
the success of the Union cause. In days of peace he was also keenly interested
in public progress and improvement and served as one of the early councilmen of
Minneapolis, while in various other ways he manifested his stanch support of all
those activities which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. He was
widely recognized as a most prominent, influential and valued citizen. He served
on the commission appointed by the governor to locate a monument at Gettysburg
for the soldiers of the First Minnesota Regiment who there fell. Throughout his
life he maintained a deep interest in military affairs and he was a valued
member of the Loyal Legion. He passed away November 7, 1914. His wife survived
until the 9th of November, 1915, both being eighty-one years of age at the time
of death.
Frank T. Heffelfinger pursued his education in the public schools of his native
city and in the Phillips Exeter Academy of New Hampshire, which he entered in
the fall of 1888, there continuing his studies until 1890, when he returned to
Minneapolis, where he joined his father in the business of shoe manufacturing.
In this he continued until 1898, when he turned his attention to the grain
business, becoming associated in this undertaking with F. H. Peavey. He was
elected president of the company in 1906 and has remained the chief executive of
the corporation, which has extensive grain elevators and warehouses in this
section of the country and Canada. In his business life he has displayed marked
enterprise, indefatigable energy and keen discrimination, which enables him
readily to judge the real, value of a situation and to use its potent forces in
the attainment of desired success. He is also a director in the Northwestern
National Bank and is interested in a number of other important business
enterprises.
On the 31st of October, 1895, Mr. Heffelfinger was married to Miss Lucia Louise
Peavey, a daughter of the late F. H. Peavey of Minneapolis. They have four
children: Frank Peavey, who was born October 15, 1897, and who married Elizabeth
E. Bradley of Houston, Texas; Totton P., who was born January 23, 1899, and who
married Mildred V. Kidder of Terre Haute, Indiana; George W. P., born July 24,
1902; and Mary P., born May 27, 1904. The son, Frank Peavey, became a second
lieutenant in the artillery service in the World war. after completing a course
of study at Camp Taylor. The second son, Totton P., won the rank of second
lieutenant in the navy aviation branch of the army, having taken his ground
training at Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, and his flying instruction at San
Diego, California. Both of these sons are graduates of Yale University and
George W. P. is now a Yale student, while the daughter is attending the Westover
School.
Mr. Heffelfinger has always maintained a keen and helpful interest in public
affairs and during the World war he was manager of the northern division of the
Red Cross. In October, 1921, he was made president of the Civic & Commerce
Association of Minneapolis and he takes the keenest interest in all those forces
and organized efforts which make for the upbuilding of the city, the.
advancement of its trade relations and the maintenance of its civic standards.
He is prominently and popularly known in club circles not only in Minneapolis
but throughout many sections of the country, having membership in the
Minneapolis Club, the Minikahda Club, the Woodhill Country Club, the Minneapolis
Athletic Club, the Chicago Club, the Manitoba Club of Winnipeg, the Kichi Gammi
Club of Duluth, the Santa Barbara Club of California, the Monticeto Club also of
Santa Barbara, California, and the Automobile Club of America. This indicates
something concerning the breadth of his acquaintance and his appreciation of the
social amenities of life. He is genial, of unfailing courtesy and of unfeigned
cordiality, recognizing and meeting the obligations of life and neglecting no
duty that devolves upon him in a public or private relation.