Lacrosse-Pierce-Polk County WI Archives Biographies.....Hart, Frank L. October 20, 1852 - 
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REV. FRANK L. HART, present Pastor of M. E. Church, West Salem. Born in 
Madison Co., N. Y., Oct. 20, 1852, where he lived till 18 years of age. In 
1870, he removed with his parents, William B. and Clarissa J. Hart, to Red 
Wing, Minn., where he attended school for a time, and engaged in teaching 
several terms. In 1873, he entered the Northwestern University, at Evanston, 
where he remained one year, when on account of failing health, induced by 
close application to study, he was obliged to discontinue his studies, which 
he again resumed in 1875. Began preaching as a local minister in 1873. He 
joined the West Wisconsin Conference, September, 1876; though he had preached 
as a supply at Ellsworth, Pierce Co. for six months previous to that time. He 
removed from Ellsworth to Clear Lake, where he remained two years. Here he 
built a church and parsonage; thence to Osceola Mills, the county seat of Polk 
Co., where he remained one year; came to West Salem in the fall of 1880. His 
wife was Miss Carrie A. Sargent, daughter of Col. Edwin A. Sargent, of Red 
Wing, Minn. She was born in Massachusetts in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Hart have 
three children - Carrie L., F. May and Louise May.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 823.

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