BIO: B. Frank GODARD, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 316.
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  B. FRANK GODARD, ex-clerk to the Huntingdon county commissioners, and 
register and recorder of Huntingdon county, was born in Hill valley, 
this county, January 8, 1855, removed to Mapleton in April, 1866; was 
educated in the common schools of Mapleton; worked in the tannery and 
stone quarries several years; was clerk in the general stores of W. H. 
Rex, M. L. Rex and Phillips & Son for eight years. Prior to Mr. 
Godard's coming to Huntingdon he held the office of burgess, councilman 
and school director at Mapleton; these are the only official stations 
he has ever occupied except the present one, and clerk to the 
commissioners, to which he was appointed in the spring of 1894. Mr. 
Godard has been an active member of the United Brethren church for over 
twenty years, and at Mapleton was the superintendent of the Sunday-
school for a period of about ten years. Mr. Godard is married to Alice 
E., eldest daughter of A. W. Swope, Esq., of Mapleton, and has four 
children.