Frank L. Mease Biography


	This biography appears on pages 932-933 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				FRANK L. MEASE. 

	Thirty-three years have come and gone since Frank L. Mease 
established his home in South Dakota and for an extended period he has 
been widely known as the proprietor of the Daily and Weekly Sentinel, 
published at Madison. He was born March 16, 1860, in Benton county, 
Iowa, and after attending the common and public schools entered Tilford 
Academy at Vinton, that state. Subsequently he spent three years as a 
student in the State University of Iowa and in April, 1882, when a 
young man of twenty-two years, came to the territory of Dakota, 
settling in Mitchell. Four years passed, and in 1886 he removed to 
Madison, where he tool; possession of the Sentinel, a republican weekly 
newspaper, which he has since owned and published. He continued it 
simply as a weekly until 1893, when he brought out the first issue of 
the daily, and now he publishes both daily and weekly editions of the 
Sentinel and for each finds a wide circulation. The paper is an 
attractive journal, giving every evidence of modern ideas and 
progressiveness in newspaper publication. For a decade Mr. Mease 
published the State Journal of Education, issued monthly. He has been 
active in other fields, for he served as postmaster of Madison for 
eight years, filling the position from 1896 until 1905, and for two 
years was the president of the Madison Commercial Club and secretary of 
the Lake County Fair Association. He stands for progress and 
improvement along all those lines which work for the betterment of 
conditions that affect the general interests of society. 

	In 1890 Mr. Mease married Miss L. Nora Scoggin, of Madison, and 
to them have been born two sons: Myron F., who is a student in the 
State University at Vermillion; and John Horace, a student in Coe 
College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Frank L. Mease has not only been an 
interested witness of the wonderful progress of South Dakota in the 
last third of a century, but he has also to the extent of his power and 
opportunities cooperated largely in all that has wrought for present-
day conditions.