Sacramento County Biographies

L. H. FRANK

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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DRY CREEK TOWNSHIP. 
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	Post Office, Galt; lives half a mile from that town; was born in 
New York in 1813; removed to Ohio in 1836, lived there until 1854, engaged in 
tanning and harness making; he then moved to Omaha, Nebraska, and stopped until 
1855, when he went to Iowa, and remained there until 1863, engaged in farming; 
in that year he came to this State, and settled in this county, where he has 
since lived; owns eighty acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $3000. 
He was married in 1836 to Rebecca M. Cowdery, also a native of New York; they 
have three children, a son and two daughters. Mr. Frank held the office of 
Postmaster in Ohio nine years. He was the first Postmaster at Omaha. 
 
 Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.