Frank Thomas Neff
Source: Biographical & Genealogical Record of LaSalle Co., Ill - 1900
[Page 92] FRANK THOMAS NEFF - Cashier of the First National Bank of Marseilles, Illinois. Daniel NEFF, the great-grandfather of Frank, was a resident of Plattsburg, New York, where he died late in the 18th century. His wife, Silence NEFF, afterward married a Mr. COOK and moved to Franklin County, Indiana, where she died August 20, 1828. Ebenezer NEFF, the grandfather was born at Plattsburg, New York, August 4, 1790 and on December 28, 1808 he was married to Susanna BUCK, in New York. Then children were born to them. Susanna (BUCK) NEFF died July 25, 1823. He then married Margaret DOUGLASS, February 15, 1824, in Franklin County, Indiana. They had eight children. Ebenezer NEFF came to Mission Twp., La Salle County, Illinois in May, 1835. He died May 31, 1867 and his wife, Margaret, died December 9, 1871. Daniel Buck NEFF was the second child of Ebenezer and Susanna (BUCK) NEFF, and his birth occurred in Franklin County, Indiana, May 29, 1811. In 1836 he moved to La Salle Co., Illinois, and a short time later to near Newark, Kendall Co., Illinois, where he lived until his death, January 26, 1865. The wife and mother, whose maiden name was Maria THOMAS, was born in Kentucky, November 22, 1814. She married Mr. NEFF in Indiana in 1832, and at the time of her death, July 21, 1880, resided in Newark, Kendall Co., Illinois. Frank T. NEFF was born on the farm in Kendall County, Illinois, November 24, 1854, and was the youngest of five children born to Daniel and Maria NEFF. He went to school in Newark in 1874 and 1875 was student of the Chicago College of Pharmacy, afterward in drug business in Rantoul, Champaign Co., Illinois, until 1877 when he moved to Marseilles. In 1884 he became a cashier of the First National Bank of Marseilles. He married Corintha BRUNDAGE, February 19, 1879, daughter of the late Milton BRUNDAGE of Marseilles. Her mother, Ann E., is now the wife of G. E. WHEELER and is living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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