Frank R. Baysore Biography This biography appears on page 1230 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm FRANK R. BAYSORE. Frank R. Baysore, proprietor of the Queen Cafe in Sioux Falls, is one of the native sons of South Dakota, his birth having occurred in Canton on the 20th of December, 1885. He is a son of Amos H. and Effie (Wimer) Baysore, natives of Illinois and of Pennsylvania respectively. He attended the common schools of Canton and made his initial step in the business world as a messenger boy in the service of the Western Union. In 1904 he removed to Sioux Falls, where he was employed in a restaurant until 1906, when he established the Queen Cafe, of which he has since been the proprietor. He caters to the needs and wishes of the public along his line and is accorded a liberal patronage. On the 26th of April, 1911, Mr. Baysore was married to Miss Lyla Mary Tate, a daughter of William Tate, and they have one son, William Francis, who is in his second year. The religious belief of the family is that of the Catholic church and Mr. Baysore is connected fraternally with the Elks and the Eagles, having held all of the offices in the local eerie. His entire life has been passed in this state and he has been an interested witness of the changes which time and man have wrought in the past thirty years.