BIOGRAPHIES:  Frank Carey, Chetek, Barron County, WI

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  Frank Carey, a well-known citizen of Chetek, was born on a farm in Dovre
Township, this county, May 7, 1877, son of William W. and Elizabeth (Bird)
Carey. He early took up railroad work and has continued at this line of
work at intervals ever since. He has also done considerable farming in
Dovre Township. Some years ago he learned the masons' trade and has
gradually worked into the contract business, one of the buildings he has
erected being the Farmers and Merchants Bank block. He owns a pleasant home
in the city which he purchased in 1920. Mr. Carey was married Oct. 31,
1909, to Grace Balkey, who was born in Sumner Township, Barron County,
March 22, 1892, daughter of Fred and Emma (Collins) Balkey, pioneers of
Sumner Township, where they still own 270 acres. In the Balkey family there
were four children: Dudley, who lives in Barron County; Grace, the wife of
Frank Carey, of Chetek; Ira, who died in infancy; and James, a farmer, this
county. By her previous marriage to Henry Smith, Mrs. Emma Balkey had four
children: William, of Duluth; Bert, a carpenter in Chetek; Byron, who died
in infancy; and Ethel, the wife of R. E. Slayton, of Chippewa County, this
state. Mr. and Mrs. Carey have five children: Frances, born Feb. 27, 1911;
Eleanor, born Dec. 13, 1912; Belle, born Aug. 3, 1914; Olive, born March
10, 1916; and Patrick, born Feb. 16, 1919.
 
--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 941.