Bio of TOWNSEND, Frank B., 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
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Vol III, pg 814-815
FRANK B. TOWNSEND
For thirty-two years Frank B. Townsend has been connected with the Minneapolis &
St. Louis Railroad and since 1917 has held the office of vice president. He was
born in Missouri but removed to Iowa with his parents at an early age. He
received his education in the public schools of that state and at the age of
fourteen years put his textbooks aside and engaged in railroading with the
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad. His first position was an unimportant one but
his constant application to his work and his conscientious performance of every
duty assigned him, won him constant promotion until in 1917 he was made vice
president. During two years of the World war he was assigned to the
administration office in Chicago as assistant to R. H. Aishton, who was regional
director for the United States Railway Administration. Mr. Townsend has always
been of a very patriotic nature and he was active through­out the
Spanish-American war as regimental sergeant-major in the Forty-ninth Iowa
Volunteer Infantry. He was a member of the Army of Occupation in Cuba during the
years 1898 and 1899.
Fraternally Mr. Townsend is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Joppa
Lodge, F. & A. M., Minneapolis Consistory, No. 2, and Zuhrah Temple of the
Mystic Shrine. Socially he is identified with the Interlachen Golf Club, the
Minneapolis Athletic Club, the Traffic Club of Minneapolis, the Traffic Club of
Chicago, and the Union League Club of Chicago. As a public-spirited citizen he
is active in the Lions Club. He is likewise a member of the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks. For recreation Mr. Townsend turns to golfing, hunting,
and fishing and is especially pro­ficient in the latter sport.