John Frank Gynan Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: GYNAN
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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      JOHN FRANK GYNAN,* a well known resident of Hampton Falls,
who has been active in public affairs, was born in this town August 27, 1881,
a son of John Frank and Mary L. (Brown) Gynan. His paternal grand-
father was Nicholas Gynan, who came to the States from Nova Scotia in the
first half of the last century, and served in the Civil war.  John Frank Gy-
nan, Sr., father of our subject, was born in Seabrook, N. H. He was a
shoemaker by occupation. His wife Mary was a daughter of Chester and
Suvira Brown. Mr. Gynan, Sr., died in 1895 and his wife is also now
deceased.
      John Frank Gynan, the subject of this sketch, and the second of the name,
was educated in the public schools, and then worked at shoemaking until 1902,
at which time he entered the employ of the electric railway company as con-
ductor, a position he still holds. He was a member of the school board for
four years and a half in Seabrook and for the last four years has been super-
 
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visor of the check list in Hampton Falls. He is also school treasurer here
and is a candidate for representative the present year (1914). His society
affiliations are with the lodge of Red Men at Exeter; the E. H. & A. Street
Railway Relief Association; the Junior Order of United American Me-
chanics, of which he is secretary and treasurer; the Sons of Veterans, and
the Home Mutual Aid Association of Seabrook.
      In 1900 Mr. Gynan married Miss Caddie J. Eaton, daughter of Emery
Eaton. Of this marriage there was one daughter, Ailene A. L., born March
31, 1901. The mother died June 7, 1908, and Mr. Gynan married for his
second wife, in 1909 Miss Frances W. Sanborn, daughter of Joseph and
Eliza Sanborn.  

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