California Biographies Mendocino and Lake Counties, California Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California With Biographical Sketches History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry Illustrated, Complete In One Volume Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914 FRANK W. NOEL.� The Noels have been people of influential stand- ing in Lake county from its early days, especially well known at Lower Lake, where the late Hon. A. E. Noel owned and edited the Bulletin until his de- cease, since when it has been conducted by his widow. A. E. Noel served his fellow citizens in various positions of honor and responsibility. He was a member of the Constitutional convention which prepared the present consti- tution of the state of California, and he was a leading member of the bar in Lake county, where he was elected district attorney. Later he became owner and editor of the Lower Lake Bulletin, which his widow now publishes. Frank W. Noel, son of Hon. A. E. Noel, was born at Lower Lake July 7 , 1873. He had excellent educational advantages, and also the benefit of newspaper training under his gifted father. When a young man he set type in the Bulletin office for his father, and he subsequently engaged in the livery business at Lower Lake, running a stable for four years, from 1900 to 1904. After the firm of A. M. Akins & Sons began their large general business at Lower Lake he became a clerk in the store, remaining with that concern for seven years. He has a high reputation for business ability and sterling per- sonal qualities, which have long been associated with the name he bears. He is a member of Clear Lake Lodge, No. 130, I. O. O. F., of which he is Past Grand. On December 31, 1902, Mr. Noel married Miss Minnie Leona Manlove, daughter of William Henry and Susan (Thompson) Manlove, the former of whom had the honor of being the first sheriff elected in Lake county. He held the office two terms. Mr. Manlove was a native of Petersburg, Va., and died March 17, 1900, on his farm in Big Valley, Lake county. His wife, Susan (Thompson), now a resident of Lakeport, is a daughter of Major Thompson, of Big Valley, one of the earliest settlers in Lake county. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Manlove: One died in infancy, the others being: Louise, now the wife of Nick Cocking, a stockman at Ukiah, Mendocino county; James Joel, a farmer, living in Scotts valley ; Virginia Bell, wife of Shaffer Mathews, county clerk of Lakeport ; Minnie Leona, Mrs. Frank W. Noel ; Katie, who married Ed. Manlove, of Sacramento, and died when twenty-one years old, leaving one child, William Alfred, who is now in the employ of the electric railway company at Woodland, Cal. ; Hattie Lee, wife of R. F. Kerr, a farmer kt Merced, Cal., and agent for the Wells-Fargo Express Company there ; William D., member of the firm of Manlove & Boone, Anaconda, Mont., dairy- men and butchers ; and Navarro Pauline, wife of G. W. C. Mitchell, a black- smith, of Selma, Cal. Minnie Leona Manlove, now Mrs. Frank W. Noel, was born and reared in Big Valley, and obtained her early education in the public school there. Later she took a course at the Lakeport academy, received a diploma, and upon examination obtained a teacher's certificate. She completed a normal course, being thoroughly prepared for teaching, which profession she has fol- lowed for the last twenty-five years, seventeen years of the time at Lower Lake, where she has been principal for the last seven years. The Lower Lake grammar school, of which she is the efficient head, has eight grades, and seventy pupils are enrolled. Mrs. Noel's close association with her pupils and the families to which they belong has made it possible for parents to have an intimate personal knowledge of the work she is doing for their children, and the appreciation and loyalty which they have shown has not only been evidence of sympathy and a desire to co-operate in her efforts, but has also been a warm tribute to her high character and womanly worth.' She and her husband have used their influence to promote and encourage every good movement set on foot in the community, where they are held in the highest esteem. Mrs. Noel is a member of Laguna Parlor, No. 189, N. D. G. W., of which she is a past president and past district deputy grand president.