Frank M. Stearns Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: STEARNS
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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      FRANK M. STEARNS, head of the firm of Frank M. Stearns & Co.,
manufacturers of and dealers in finished timber, of Derry, N. H., was born
in Deerfield, Rockingham county, N. H., May 5, 1858, a son of John and
Clara E. (Rand) Sterns. The father, John Stearns, was born in Wilmot,
N. H., and removed to Deerfield when six years of age. He was a farmer for
many years at Deerfield and was later superintendent of the Pierce farms at
Greenland, N. H., for seven years. His death took place in Derry in 1886.
His wife was a native of Deerfield, N. H., and daughter of Edmund and Julia
Rand.
      Frank M. Stearns acquired his education in the schools of Greenland
and at the age of twenty-one years came to Derry. He was employed in a
shoe shop and in a store for some ten or twelve years, after which he learned
the trades of carpenter and cabinet-maker, subsequently buying and operating
what is now known as the Greenough wood-working plant. This he later
sold to Mr. Greenough and built his present plant on Franklin street, where
he has built up an excellent business. He handles chiefly the better grades
of wood, such as mahogany and cypress, catering chiefly to cabinet and screen
work.
       Mr. Steams was married in 1891 to Miss Ethel L. Fowler, of Pembroke,
N. H., a daughter of Albert and Kate Fowler. They are the parents of one
child, Edmund R. The latter was educated in the public schools of Derry,
later attended Pinkerton Academy, where he was graduated in 1911, and is
now a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, where he

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is studying civil engineering. Mr. Steams is a member of the Knights of
Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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