Frank Boldt Biography


	This biography appears on pages 849-850 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				FRANK BOLDT. 

	Alert and enterprising, Frank Boldt is now an active factor in 
business circles of Edmunds county as the manager of the Hosmer 
Mercantile Company. He was born in Germany, February 25, 1868, and his 
parents, Gottfried and Caroline Boldt, were also natives of that 
country, in which they spent their entire lives. 

	After attending the public schools Frank Boldt came to America in 
1885, at the age of seventeen years, settling first in Wisconsin, where 
he was employed as a common laborer. Hoping to better his condition, he 
removed to Spink county, South Dakota, in 1888 and turned his attention 
to farming, there remaining until 1895, when he became a resident of 
Edmunds county, where he again located upon a farm; which he occupied 
and cultivated for five years. In the meantime his financial resources 
had increased as the result of his industry and perseverance and 
eventually he turned his attention to merchandising at Hosmer, where he 
has lived continuously since about 1900. He is now manager for the 
Hosmer Mercantile Company, owning one of the large commercial 
establishments of his part of the state, and his capable control is 
seen in a growing trade and in the satisfaction of the many patrons of 
the store, who appreciate his courtesy, attention and honorable 
business methods. 

	In 1895 Mr. Boldt wedded Miss Bertha Kunde, a native of Germany, 
and they have become the parents of seven children, of whom one died in 
infancy, the others being Amanda F., Paul H., Emil H., Erna B., Emma L. 
and Esther B. 

	In his political views Mr. Boldt is a republican. He has never 
sought nor held political office save that of member of the town board. 
He has served, however, on the school board and is interested in the 
cause of education. Native born citizens it often seems come by the 
privileges of American life too easily to appreciate them in the 
fullest degree. At least some of those who have sacrificed and suffered 
to obtain them value these blessings more highly than those to whom 
they come as a matter of course. Mr. Boldt is numbered with those who, 
appreciative of the opportunities offered in the new world, has 
utilized them to good advantage, becoming one of the prosperous 
residents of Edmunds county, and at the same time he manifests his 
appreciation of American liberty by his loyal support of the interests 
which he deems of greatest value to the community and country.