- FRANKLIN R. DERRICK is engaged in the fire insurance business
in Brodhead, Green county,
- and is one of the leading men of the place in regard to general
character, standing and personal integrity. He is a genial and
courteous gentleman, and enjoys a wide circle of personal friends.
- Mr. DERRICK was born in Spring Grove, Green county, Wis.,
May 25, 1850, and is a son of
- Franklin H. and Harriet A. (BOSLOW) DERRICK, natives of New
York and Canada, respectively. A sketch of his father appears
elsewhere in this work, to which the reader is referred for fuller
information as to family history and ancestral data. It is said
that the grandfather of Franklin R. walked from Illinois to New
York guided by his compass. His maternal grandfather was John
BOSLOW, was a native of Canada, and of German descent. He moved
into Ohio, and early in the '40s came to Wisconsin, and followed
farming in Green county, where he died well advanced in years.
He was the father of a numerous family.
- Franklin R. DERRICK grew to manhood under the parental roof
in the town of Spring Grove,
- and secured his education at the district school, and at
the high school in Brodhead. He studied dentistry in this city,
and was engaged in its practice about fifteen years. Tiring of
office practice he went on the road, and sold specialties for
five years. In 1898 he bought the fire insurance business of
Joseph THOMPSON, and is devoting himself to its expansion. Mr.
DERRICK was married August 22, 1876, to Miss Arabella N. MOORE,
daughter of William H. and Susan (MOORE) MOORE. To their union
was born one daughter, who died in infancy. Mr. DERRICK was formerly
a Republican, but is now a Prohibitionist, and is a candidate
on the State ticket of that party for the office of railroad
commissioner.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 561-562.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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