Bios of Goss, Frank C. (b.1876) Wabasha Co., MN
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Goss, Frank C. (p. 623), the popular clerk of courts of Wabasha County,
was born in the city where he now resides November 14, 1876, son of Ziba
and Emma (Hurd) Goss, and descended from two of the earliest families in
the county. He passed through the graded and high schools of Wabasha and
took the four years' course at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. For a
year and a half he acted as his father's clerk in the Hurd Hotel, now the
Anderson House. Then he was deputy postmaster at Wabasha under his father.
Upon retiring from this position he entered the government service as
receiver of material, connected with the Upper Mississippi office of the
United States Engineers, working on the river in the summer and in the
government building at St. Paul during the winter. He resigned from this
position in the fall of 1914. That same fall he became a candidate for his
present position, took office January 1, 1915, and by re-election has
since continued to serve. He is an efficient officer, competent in his
office, and accommodating to the public, thus winning the general favor of
the court, the lawyers and his constituents. Fraternally he is a member of
Wapahasa Lodge, No. 14, A.F.&A.M., of Wabasha, and of Hope Chapter, No.
12, R.A.M., of Lake City. The family faith is that of the Grace Memorial
Epicopal church of Wabasha, of which Mr. Goss is a prominent member, and
of which he has been vestryman for many years. Mr. Goss was married August
12, 1903, to Josephine Cumbey, daughter of William N. and Elizabeth (Howe)
Cumbey, of St. Paul, and they have two children: Elizabeth, born July 7,
1905, and Howard, born May 10, 1912. The family residence is a comfortable
dwelling on West Main street.