Wasco-Washington-Clackamas County OR Archives Biographies.....Dick, Frank G. March 10, 1885 - 
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	FRANK G. DICK, an outstanding figure in legal circles of The Dalles, 
has been particularly successful as a trial lawyer, becoming well known in 
this connection, and is also classed with the leading agriculturists of Wasco 
county. His life from an early age has been one of unremitting industry and he 
deserves much credit for what he has accomplished. He was born March 10, 1885, 
in Polk county, Iowa, and his parents were Franz and Franie O’Brien, the 
former a native of Germany, and of Portuguese descent, while the latter was 
born in Dublin, Ireland. His father became an able lawyer. In 1885 he came to 
the United States but returned to Europe the same year. Frank G. Dick never 
saw his father and his mother died in 1891, when he was a child of six, 
leaving him in the care of her relatives.
	Mr. Dick was reared by a family named O’Brien and obtained his early 
education in the public schools of Iowa, which he attended during the morning 
session. In the afternoon he was obliged to work and this program was 
continued until his grammar school course was completed. For one and a half 
years he was a high school pupil and in 1908 came to The Dalles where he 
pursued a special course of study under the tutelage of Rev. G. S. Clevenger, 
a former teacher at Princeton University. He obtained a position as clerk in 
the drug store of George C. Blakeley in which he spent half of the day, and 
during the remainder studied law in the office of Bennett & Sinnott, at that 
time the leading firm of attorneys in The Dalles. Judge Bennett has passed 
away and his partner, N. J. Sinnott, is now a member of congress. Mr. Dick 
also took a correspondence law course and in May, 1913, was admitted to the 
bar at Pendleton, Oregon. For fifteen years he has engaged in general practice 
at The Dalles and during that period has handled at least fifty per cent of 
the criminal cases tried in Wasco county as well as in several adjoining 
counties in eastern Oregon and Washington. He is a formidable adversary in 
legal combat, marshaling his evidence with the precision and skill of a 
military commander, and seldom fails to convince his audience of the justice 
of the cause he pleads. His offices are located in the Vogt building and his 
clientele is extensive and lucrative. Several years ago Mr. Dick began to 
invest his savings in Wasco county land and he now has a wheat ranch of 
seventeen hundred acres. Scientific methods are utilized in its cultivation 
and he also owns a desirable home in The Dalles.
	Mr. Dick was married October 20, 1915, to Miss Louise Cramer, who was 
born in Nebraska.  Her parents, Fred and Johanna (Vogt) Cramer, were natives 
of Germany and came to the United States about 1857, locating in Wisconsin. 
Later they moved to Nebraska and about 1892 migrated to Oregon. Mr. Cramer 
engaged in farming near Forest Grove and was also a cigarmaker. There he began 
the manufacture of cigars and also established a factory of the same kind at 
Oregon City. In 1901 he transferred his industrial operations to The Dalles 
and operated a cigar factory in this city until his death in 1903. His widow 
has reached the venerable age of eighty-two years and still resides at The 
Dalles. Her daughter Louise was educated in Oregon and became a dressmaker. 
Endowed with more than average ability, she was placed in charge of the 
dressmaking department in the Williams store at The Dallas and filled the 
position until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Dick have four sons all of whom are 
natives of The Dalles. William was born in 1916, John H. in 1918, Roger L. in 
1922 and Edgar in 1924.
	Mr. Dick belongs to The Dalles Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of 
which he is past chancellor commander and his interest in the development and 
prosperity of the city is denoted by his affiliation with the Chamber of 
Commerce. He is a member of the local Golf Club and also enjoys the sport of 
hunting. Along professional lines he is connected with the Wasco County and 
Oregon State Bar Associations. His time and money were donated toward the 
building of good roads in the district in which his ranch is situated and to 
all movements for the advancement of his community and the development of this 
section of the state he lends his hearty support. Possessing a strong will, an 
energetic nature and self-reliance, Mr. Dick has overcome adverse 
circumstances, bending them to his will, and is accorded the respect which 
world ever yields to the self-made man and useful citizen.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 447-448

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