Bio of Frank A. TOWNSEND (b.1857), Wright Co., MN 

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This Bio is from the HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY, Volumes I and II,
Published in 1915 by Franklin Curtiss - Wedge.
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Frank A. Townsend, farmer and stockraiser, Monticello township, was born 
in Lake county, Illinois, December 27, 1857, son of John K. and Fidelia 
(Tower) Townsend, natives of New York state, who came to Wright county in 
1902, and ended their days in Monticello. In their family there were six 
children: Frank A.; Carrie, wife of John Frost, of Monticello; Cora 
(deceased); Ada (deceased); Wilber, of Monticello; and Emory, of St. 
Paul.  Frank A. Townsend was taken from Illinois to Wisconsin and
there lived about twenty-five years. Then he spent about five years in 
South Dakota, and some fifteen years in Martin county, Minnesota. In 
1902 he bought 160 acres in section 6, Monticello where he has made 
some splendid improvements, and where he now carries on general farming 
and stock raising. He votes the Republican ticket, and the family faith 
is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Townsend was married March 
Lake 29, 1877, to Mary Meyers, a native of Pennsylvania. She was born 
July 14, 1857, daughter of Frank and Martha (Cole) Meyers. His father
died November 19, 1898, and her mother now makes her home with her son, 
Frank A.