George R. Frank Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Muscoda, Biographical Sketches, Page 964

GEORGE R. FRANK, Muscoda; was born in the town of Gray, Cumberland Co., Me., May 
2, 1824.  Attended the common school, also the high school at Gray's Corner and 
Westbrook Seminary taught school four winters in Maine, commencing at 17 years of 
age. Left home in March 1845, went to Boston; thence to Buffalo, N. Y., and, in 
September, to Chicago thence to Galena, and from there to Benton, La Fayette Co., 
and taught school during the Winter.  In the spring of 1846, name to Grant Co., 
and engaged in teaching, speculating and farming till 1875, and then purchased a 
farm just over the line in Iowa Co.  Has a farm of about 500 acres, and is engaged 
in stock-raising.  In 1848, married Matilda Price in the town of Harrison, Grant 
Co.; she was born in Indiana, and came to Grant Co., with her parents, in 1836, 
when she was but 6 years old; her parents, Zachariah Price and Elizabeth Price, 
live at Mankato, Minn., and are engaged in farming.  Have seven children - Alpheus 
E., attorney, Deadwood, Dak.; Charles E., broker, Virginia City, Nev.; Florence 
C., wife of Charles J. McKittrick, merchant, Muscoda; Noma E., William B., George 
B. and Freddie are living at home.  Has held the offices of Town Clerk, Town 
Superintendent of Schools, Justice of the Peace, Town Supervisor and member of the 
County Board of Supervisors.  Has been Deputy U. S. Marshal, Deputy U. S. 
Collector and Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue. In August, 1862, raised Co. 
B, of the 33d W. V. I.; was chosen Captain and commissioned Aug. 16, 1862, and 
served three years; was commissioned Major of the regiment, Feb. 4. 1865, and 
mustered in as such at Spanish Fort, Ala., April 5, to take effect, March 2, 1865; 
was in all the battles and skirmishes in which the regiment was engaged, including 
the battle of Goldwater, siege of Vicksburg, Red River expedition, battle of 
Tupelo, battle of Nashville and siege of Spanish Fort; was in the charge that 
broke the rebel line in the first day's fight at Nashville; was wounded while 
leading the advance on Spanish Fort. His father Alpheus Frank, died in Portland, 
at the residence of his daughter Mrs. Eliza Haskell.  He was one of the 
substantial farmers of Gray, a man of the strictest integrity, of quiet and 
unassuming manner, and was held in high esteem by a large circle of friends and 
acquaintances. He passed his life in Gray, and there reared a large family.