Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Frank AMOS

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Transcribed from Lawson, Publius V.  History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin:
its cities, towns, resources people. Chicago: C.F. Cooper and Company,
1908. v.2 p.853


Frank Amos, one of the most prominent business men of Oshkosh and a co-
partner in the Hollister-Amos Company, was born in London, England, on May
2, 1840, and came with his parents to this country in 1848 and settled in
Racine, this state.  Mr. Amos lived in Racine for a number of years, going
thence to Burlington, Wisconsin, where he engaged in the business of
farming.  On November 27, 1862, he was married to Miss Caroline L. Loomis
of Burlington, a cousin of Col. S.W. Hollister.  In 1866 Mr. and Mrs. Amos
came to Oshkosh to live, and he engaged in the business of wood selling and
occasionally in the winter time a logging contractor. In 1882 Mr. Amos,
with the late John Stanhilber and Col. S.W. Hollister bought out the lumber
and sawmill business of Messrs. Mead & Ripley, and the business was
afterward conducted under the firm name of the Stanhilber-Amos Company. In
1893 Messrs. Hollister & Amos purchased the interest of Mr. Stanhilber and
the co-partnership under the name of the Hollister & Amos Company was
formed and continued up to the time of Mr. Amos’ death.

By a strange coincidence, Mr. Amos’ partner, Mr. Stanhilber, also died of
apoplexy about one year after retiring from business. During several months
previous to his death he had determined to retire from business, and
consequently purchased from the company of which he was a member the large
stock farm near Fond du Lac during the summer of 1901. Many improvements
were made on the place and new buildings erected. and it was arranged that
after January 1 Mr. Hollister was to purchase the interests of Mr. Amos in
the lumbering business and Mr. Amos would remove to his farm, where he
would spend the remainder of his life in time comforts earned by years of
hard labor.  His death occurred at his home. No. 703 Algoma street, on
Tuesday, December 10, 1901. Besides his wife, Mr. Amos is survived by one
daughter, the wife of Mr. J. G. Morris, vice- president and general manager
of the R. McMillen Company and one brother, Arthur Amos, who lives at
Kimball, Nebraska.

Mr. Amos was a man of sterling integrity, upright and respected. He was
industrious and had succeeded in accumulating a comfortable fortune and
never forgot or neglected the less fortunate his donations, however, were
always made in a quiet unostentatious way, characteristic of the man. He
was modest and retiring, and the comforts of his home life were sufficient
to occupy his attentions, and he was consequently not a member of and
secret society, although a good neighbor and citizen.