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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  FRANK D. WELLS is manager and member of the firm of F. D. Wells & Co., which

is composed of himself and P. Geyerman & Sons. The firm has a well equipped

hardware store at Brewster which was organized under the present title Jan. 1,

1907, succeeding the Brewster Hardware company, one of the pioneer firms of the

city.



  Frank Wells was born in Sandwich, Dekalb county, Ill., April 5, 1869, one of a

family of six children. His father, David A. Wells, was born in Massachusetts in

1820. When a young man he moved to New York state and in 1857 to Sandwich, Ill.,

where he lived the rest of his life, dying Feb. 19, 1883. He was a millwright

and contractor and during the last thirty years of his life was engaged in

putting up elevators. He was the inventor of the elevator grain dump system. Our

subject's mother is Elizabeth (Perry) Wells, a descendant of Commodore Perry,

the hero of the war of 1812. She was born in Canada in 1836 and came to the

states when a girl. She married William Kellam, who was killed in the civil war,

in 1850, and in 1855 moved to Little Rock, Ill. She was married the second time

in 1866 at Sandwich, Ill., to David Wells. She is now living in Sandwich with a

son, Levi Kellam.



  In his native town Frank was educated and made his home until he became of

age. In 1890 he engaged in farming in Dekalb county, and followed that

occupation many years. He farmed there four years, in O'Brien county, Iowa,

three years, and in Clay county, Iowa, four years. In 1901 he moved to Jackson

county, Minn., bought a farm in Ewington township, and farmed it two and

one-half years. He then moved to Brewster and engaged in the implement business,

which he conducted two and one-half years. At the end of that time he sold to N.

A. Arvidson, and on January 1, 1907, bought an interest in the hardware store

and has since been its manager.



  Mr. Wells was married in Dekalb county March 8, 1892, to Miss Esther Bend, who

was born in that county in 1866. She is the daughter of Lewis and Jane Bend,

natives of England. Her mother died in 1891; her father is 78 years of age and

resides on the old homestead he purchased in an early day. To Mr. and Mrs. Wells

have been born the following children: Ila, born March 3, 1893; Effie, born Feb.

13, 1894; Harvey, born July 20, 1896; Emma, born June 21, 1897; Alice, born June

2, 1899.



  Mr. Wells owns a home in the village. He is a member of the M. W. A., lodge

and in 1905 served as member of the village council.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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