Bio of Frank E. STRATTON (b.1873), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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FRANK E. STRATTON (1878)

Frank E. Stratton, proprietor of the Owl restaurant at Granite Falls, was
born in Hortonville, Wisconsin, May 19, 1873.  At the age of five years he
moved to Granite Falls with his parents.  There he grew to manhood and was
educated in the city schools.

He began his business career by accepting the position of grain buyer in an
elevator at Green Valley, where he worked three years.  Then for two years
he clerked in a store at Granite Falls.   Thereafter he engaged in
manufacturing cigars and for three years was the proprietor of a cigar
factory at the Granite city.  Mr. Stratton then went to Sherwood, North
Dakota, and took up a homestead, also running a restaurant there about two
years.  Returning to Minnesota, he engaged in the saloon business at Sacred
Heart, thus being engaged about one year.  After that he was employed two
years as a bartender in Montevideo.  He then returned to Granite Falls and
conducted a saloon one year and for the next four or five years was engaged
as bartender.

In January 1912, Mr. Stratton opened his present business in the Neste
building, where he runs a neat and up-to-date restaurant.  In addition to
meal service he makes a specialty of short orders.  The place has day and
night service--open all the time--hence, the name which it bears, the Owl.

Mr. Stratton was married at Granite Falls in 1908 to Katherine Larsen, a
native of Denmark.  They had one child, Edwin, who died at the age of one
year.

Source: A History of Yellow Medicine County by Arthur P. Rose. Published
1914