WILLIAM H. FRICKELTON. While the lessons of adversity are not always salutary, sometimes indurating and souring the nature subjected to them, but when they fall on a healthy and well balanced organism they are likely to produce their proper fruitage in a strong and resourceful vitality, an independent spirit, self-reliance and readiness for any emergency. The case of William H. Frickelton, president of the Joplin Supply Company and now one of the leading merchants in southwestern Missouri, furnishes a striking instance of their good effects on a man of the right mettle. His lot was one of great hardship and privation in boyhood and youth, and forted him to laborious exertion at an early age. Yet he confronted his difficulties with an equaling courage, and overcame them all by persistent and well applied industry and the exercise of good judgment and foresight.
Mr. Frickelton is a native of the province of Ontario, Canada, and was born at Wardsville on August 2, 1856, His parents were David and Rebecca (Jackson) Frickelton, the former born in the north of Ireland and the latter in London, England. The father came to Canada with his parents in his boyhood. He grew to manhood and obtained a limited education in the new home to which they brought him, and after he grew to manhood followed the hotel bakery and confectionery business. He died in Canada in 1875. The mother survived him thirty years and passed away in St, Paul, Minnesota, in 1903. They had nine children, of whom William was the fifth born. He attended the common schools of his native town until he reached the age of twelve, and was then sent into the timber region to do a man's work in cutting timber for the lumber markets. The work was hard and the conditions of life attending it were in many respects deplorable. The range of food was narrow and the supply often scant. Climatic conditions were severe at times and shelter was meager and uncertain at the best, while sufficiency of clothing was a thing almost unknown to the hardy woodsmen. Mr. Frickelton had for years only one pair of boots at a time, and he wore these only in the winter months so as to make each pair last several seasons. But he bore his burden bravely and performed his duties faithfully for three years.
At the end of that period he was apprenticed to the tinner'a trade for three years. On the completion of his apprenticeship he came into the United States and sought opportunities for greater advancement in the undeveloped West, locating in Fort Scott, Kansas. for a year during 1876 and 1877. and working at his trade there. From 1877 to 1880 he conducted a flourishing hardware business at Osage Mission, Kansas, in which he was very successful. He sold his business in the year last mentioned and moved to Cherryvale in the same state, and there he again engaged in the hardware trade for a year. In 1889 he sold his store at Cherry-vale and changed his residence to Joplin. Here he at once organized the Joplin Hardware Store, incorporated, and was made the secretary and general manager of the corporation. He managed its affairs successfully until 1897, then became manager of the Halyard Hardware Company, with which he remained three years, doing a good business and extending his acquaintances. In 1900 the Joplin Supply Company was reorganized, and under the new arrangement Mr. Frickelton was made president of the company, a position he has filled from that time to the present (1911). The Joplin Supply Company is the largest business enterprise of the kind in the West. It has a branch house in Webb City and employs regularly a large number of local and traveling salesmen in addition to a complete office force, doing an extensive business in both wholesale and retail lines, and covering in its operations a very large territory. Mr. Frickelton is the active head and controlling spirit of the company, and its success is due in large measure to his great business capacity and his ceaseless industry in the use of it, together with his wide and accurate knowledge of the trade.
Mr. Frickelton takes no very active part in political affairs except to vote as his judgment dictates for the good of the public. He leans strongly to the Democratic party, but is not bound by partisan considerations against what he believes to be for the general welfare, and is therefore classed as an Independent in polities. He is positive and constant in his interest in the advancement and improvement of his city and county, and is one of the most effective and helpful supporters of all projects he thinks likely to work for their betterment. As a member of the Order of Elks, and the T. P. A. he renders valuable aid to the fraternal life of the community, and as an active worker in the Episcopal church he contributes largely to the influence and good results of all the moral agencies at work among the people around him.
On October 29, 1884, he was married in the Episcopal church at Independence, Kansas, to Miss Cora Scott, a native of that state and daughter of John Scott, editor of the Osage Mission Journal and very prominent and influential among the newspaper men of the state. Three children have been born of the union: Frank Scott; Terence, who is married and conducts an automobile supply house in Joplin; and Jene. The father has been very successful in his undertakings since coming West, and is recognized wherever he is know as one of Joplin's most substantial and capable business men. He has a beautiful home in the city, at 614 Jackson avenue, while the Supply Company, over which he presides, is located at the northeast corner of Fourth and Wall streets. His official associates in the management of the company's business are: F. C. Ralston, vice president and secretary, and N. 0. Nelson, of St. Louis, a large stockholder in the company and one of its directors, Like Mr. Frickelton, they are gentlemen. of high character and fine business capacity, and like him, also, they are held in high esteem by all who know them as potential factors in promoting the general weal of Joplin and Jasper county, and influential agencies for good in all phases of their business and social life. [The History of Jasper County and Its People; Joel Thomas Livingston; Public Domain]
William Henry Frickelton Death 09 Jun 1921 San Francisco, San Francisco, California Gender Male Age 63 Married Birth Date 02 Aug 1857 (56)Ontario Canada Funeral Home H. F. Suhr & Co. Funeral Records San Francisco, San Francisco, California Obituary Included YES
Father's Name David Frickelton Birthplace Ireland Mother's Name Rebecca Jackson Birthplace England "California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1979," William Henry Frickelton, 09 Jun 1921; citing funeral home H. F. Suhr & Co., San Francisco, San Francisco, California, record book Vol. 10, p. 8301-8583, 1921, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History and Archive Center.
William H Frickelton 63 Canada Cora H Frickelton Wife F 50 Kansas Jean S Frickelton Daughter F 21 Missouri
United States Census, 1920," William H Frickelton, San Francisco Assembly District 25, San Francisco, California, United States; citing sheet 3A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,134.
87855896 Cora Frickelton 87855897 Jean Frickelton 670728 Frank Scott Frickelton Frank S Frickelton Death 25 Nov 1960 El Paso, Texas, United States Marital Status Married Birth Date 15 Oct 1885 Birthplace Kansas
Mr. Frickelton is a native of the province of Ontario, Canada, and was born at Wardsville on August 2, 1856, His parents were David and Rebecca (Jackson) Frickelton, the former born in the north of Ireland and the latter in London, England. The father came to Canada with his parents in his boyhood. He grew to manhood and obtained a limited education in the new home to which they brought him, and after he grew to manhood followed the hotel bakery and confectionery business. He died in Canada in 1875. The mother survived him thirty years and passed away in St, Paul, Minnesota, in 1903. They had nine children, of whom William was the fifth born. He attended the common schools of his native town until he reached the age of twelve, and was then sent into the timber region to do a man's work in cutting timber for the lumber markets. The work was hard and the conditions of life attending it were in many respects deplorable. The range of food was narrow and the supply often scant. Climatic conditions were severe at times and shelter was meager and uncertain at the best, while sufficiency of clothing was a thing almost unknown to the hardy woodsmen. Mr. Frickelton had for years only one pair of boots at a time, and he wore these only in the winter months so as to make each pair last several seasons. But he bore his burden bravely and performed his duties faithfully for three years.
At the end of that period he was apprenticed to the tinner'a trade for three years. On the completion of his apprenticeship he came into the United States and sought opportunities for greater advancement in the undeveloped West, locating in Fort Scott, Kansas. for a year during 1876 and 1877. and working at his trade there. From 1877 to 1880 he conducted a flourishing hardware business at Osage Mission, Kansas, in which he was very successful. He sold his business in the year last mentioned and moved to Cherryvale in the same state, and there he again engaged in the hardware trade for a year. In 1889 he sold his store at Cherry-vale and changed his residence to Joplin. Here he at once organized the Joplin Hardware Store, incorporated, and was made the secretary and general manager of the corporation. He managed its affairs successfully until 1897, then became manager of the Halyard Hardware Company, with which he remained three years, doing a good business and extending his acquaintances. In 1900 the Joplin Supply Company was reorganized, and under the new arrangement Mr. Frickelton was made president of the company, a position he has filled from that time to the present (1911). The Joplin Supply Company is the largest business enterprise of the kind in the West. It has a branch house in Webb City and employs regularly a large number of local and traveling salesmen in addition to a complete office force, doing an extensive business in both wholesale and retail lines, and covering in its operations a very large territory. Mr. Frickelton is the active head and controlling spirit of the company, and its success is due in large measure to his great business capacity and his ceaseless industry in the use of it, together with his wide and accurate knowledge of the trade.
Mr. Frickelton takes no very active part in political affairs except to vote as his judgment dictates for the good of the public. He leans strongly to the Democratic party, but is not bound by partisan considerations against what he believes to be for the general welfare, and is therefore classed as an Independent in polities. He is positive and constant in his interest in the advancement and improvement of his city and county, and is one of the most effective and helpful supporters of all projects he thinks likely to work for their betterment. As a member of the Order of Elks, and the T. P. A. he renders valuable aid to the fraternal life of the community, and as an active worker in the Episcopal church he contributes largely to the influence and good results of all the moral agencies at work among the people around him.
On October 29, 1884, he was married in the Episcopal church at Independence, Kansas, to Miss Cora Scott, a native of that state and daughter of John Scott, editor of the Osage Mission Journal and very prominent and influential among the newspaper men of the state. Three children have been born of the union: Frank Scott; Terence, who is married and conducts an automobile supply house in Joplin; and Jene. The father has been very successful in his undertakings since coming West, and is recognized wherever he is know as one of Joplin's most substantial and capable business men. He has a beautiful home in the city, at 614 Jackson avenue, while the Supply Company, over which he presides, is located at the northeast corner of Fourth and Wall streets. His official associates in the management of the company's business are: F. C. Ralston, vice president and secretary, and N. 0. Nelson, of St. Louis, a large stockholder in the company and one of its directors, Like Mr. Frickelton, they are gentlemen. of high character and fine business capacity, and like him, also, they are held in high esteem by all who know them as potential factors in promoting the general weal of Joplin and Jasper county, and influential agencies for good in all phases of their business and social life. [The History of Jasper County and Its People; Joel Thomas Livingston; Public Domain]
William Henry Frickelton Death 09 Jun 1921 San Francisco, San Francisco, California Gender Male Age 63 Married Birth Date 02 Aug 1857 (56)Ontario Canada Funeral Home H. F. Suhr & Co. Funeral Records San Francisco, San Francisco, California Obituary Included YES
Father's Name David Frickelton Birthplace Ireland Mother's Name Rebecca Jackson Birthplace England "California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1979," William Henry Frickelton, 09 Jun 1921; citing funeral home H. F. Suhr & Co., San Francisco, San Francisco, California, record book Vol. 10, p. 8301-8583, 1921, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History and Archive Center.
William H Frickelton 63 Canada Cora H Frickelton Wife F 50 Kansas Jean S Frickelton Daughter F 21 Missouri
United States Census, 1920," William H Frickelton, San Francisco Assembly District 25, San Francisco, California, United States; citing sheet 3A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,134.
87855896 Cora Frickelton 87855897 Jean Frickelton 670728 Frank Scott Frickelton Frank S Frickelton Death 25 Nov 1960 El Paso, Texas, United States Marital Status Married Birth Date 15 Oct 1885 Birthplace Kansas
WILLIAM H. FRICKELTON. While the lessons of adversity are not always salutary, sometimes indurating and souring the nature subjected to them, but when they fall on a healthy and well balanced organism they are likely to produce their proper fruitage in a strong and resourceful vitality, an independent spirit, self-reliance and readiness for any emergency. The case of William H. Frickelton, president of the Joplin Supply Company and now one of the leading merchants in southwestern Missouri, furnishes a striking instance of their good effects on a man of the right mettle. His lot was one of great hardship and privation in boyhood and youth, and forted him to laborious exertion at an early age. Yet he confronted his difficulties with an equaling courage, and overcame them all by persistent and well applied industry and the exercise of good judgment and foresight.
Mr. Frickelton is a native of the province of Ontario, Canada, and was born at Wardsville on August 2, 1856, His parents were David and Rebecca (Jackson) Frickelton, the former born in the north of Ireland and the latter in London, England. The father came to Canada with his parents in his boyhood. He grew to manhood and obtained a limited education in the new home to which they brought him, and after he grew to manhood followed the hotel bakery and confectionery business. He died in Canada in 1875. The mother survived him thirty years and passed away in St, Paul, Minnesota, in 1903. They had nine children, of whom William was the fifth born. He attended the common schools of his native town until he reached the age of twelve, and was then sent into the timber region to do a man's work in cutting timber for the lumber markets. The work was hard and the conditions of life attending it were in many respects deplorable. The range of food was narrow and the supply often scant. Climatic conditions were severe at times and shelter was meager and uncertain at the best, while sufficiency of clothing was a thing almost unknown to the hardy woodsmen. Mr. Frickelton had for years only one pair of boots at a time, and he wore these only in the winter months so as to make each pair last several seasons. But he bore his burden bravely and performed his duties faithfully for three years.
At the end of that period he was apprenticed to the tinner'a trade for three years. On the completion of his apprenticeship he came into the United States and sought opportunities for greater advancement in the undeveloped West, locating in Fort Scott, Kansas. for a year during 1876 and 1877. and working at his trade there. From 1877 to 1880 he conducted a flourishing hardware business at Osage Mission, Kansas, in which he was very successful. He sold his business in the year last mentioned and moved to Cherryvale in the same state, and there he again engaged in the hardware trade for a year. In 1889 he sold his store at Cherry-vale and changed his residence to Joplin. Here he at once organized the Joplin Hardware Store, incorporated, and was made the secretary and general manager of the corporation. He managed its affairs successfully until 1897, then became manager of the Halyard Hardware Company, with which he remained three years, doing a good business and extending his acquaintances. In 1900 the Joplin Supply Company was reorganized, and under the new arrangement Mr. Frickelton was made president of the company, a position he has filled from that time to the present (1911). The Joplin Supply Company is the largest business enterprise of the kind in the West. It has a branch house in Webb City and employs regularly a large number of local and traveling salesmen in addition to a complete office force, doing an extensive business in both wholesale and retail lines, and covering in its operations a very large territory. Mr. Frickelton is the active head and controlling spirit of the company, and its success is due in large measure to his great business capacity and his ceaseless industry in the use of it, together with his wide and accurate knowledge of the trade.
Mr. Frickelton takes no very active part in political affairs except to vote as his judgment dictates for the good of the public. He leans strongly to the Democratic party, but is not bound by partisan considerations against what he believes to be for the general welfare, and is therefore classed as an Independent in polities. He is positive and constant in his interest in the advancement and improvement of his city and county, and is one of the most effective and helpful supporters of all projects he thinks likely to work for their betterment. As a member of the Order of Elks, and the T. P. A. he renders valuable aid to the fraternal life of the community, and as an active worker in the Episcopal church he contributes largely to the influence and good results of all the moral agencies at work among the people around him.
On October 29, 1884, he was married in the Episcopal church at Independence, Kansas, to Miss Cora Scott, a native of that state and daughter of John Scott, editor of the Osage Mission Journal and very prominent and influential among the newspaper men of the state. Three children have been born of the union: Frank Scott; Terence, who is married and conducts an automobile supply house in Joplin; and Jene. The father has been very successful in his undertakings since coming West, and is recognized wherever he is know as one of Joplin's most substantial and capable business men. He has a beautiful home in the city, at 614 Jackson avenue, while the Supply Company, over which he presides, is located at the northeast corner of Fourth and Wall streets. His official associates in the management of the company's business are: F. C. Ralston, vice president and secretary, and N. 0. Nelson, of St. Louis, a large stockholder in the company and one of its directors, Like Mr. Frickelton, they are gentlemen. of high character and fine business capacity, and like him, also, they are held in high esteem by all who know them as potential factors in promoting the general weal of Joplin and Jasper county, and influential agencies for good in all phases of their business and social life. [The History of Jasper County and Its People; Joel Thomas Livingston; Public Domain]
William Henry Frickelton Death 09 Jun 1921 San Francisco, San Francisco, California Gender Male Age 63 Married Birth Date 02 Aug 1857 (56)Ontario Canada Funeral Home H. F. Suhr & Co. Funeral Records San Francisco, San Francisco, California Obituary Included YES
Father's Name David Frickelton Birthplace Ireland Mother's Name Rebecca Jackson Birthplace England "California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1979," William Henry Frickelton, 09 Jun 1921; citing funeral home H. F. Suhr & Co., San Francisco, San Francisco, California, record book Vol. 10, p. 8301-8583, 1921, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History and Archive Center.
William H Frickelton 63 Canada Cora H Frickelton Wife F 50 Kansas Jean S Frickelton Daughter F 21 Missouri
United States Census, 1920," William H Frickelton, San Francisco Assembly District 25, San Francisco, California, United States; citing sheet 3A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,134.
87855896 Cora Frickelton 87855897 Jean Frickelton 670728 Frank Scott Frickelton Frank S Frickelton Death 25 Nov 1960 El Paso, Texas, United States Marital Status Married Birth Date 15 Oct 1885 Birthplace Kansas
Mr. Frickelton is a native of the province of Ontario, Canada, and was born at Wardsville on August 2, 1856, His parents were David and Rebecca (Jackson) Frickelton, the former born in the north of Ireland and the latter in London, England. The father came to Canada with his parents in his boyhood. He grew to manhood and obtained a limited education in the new home to which they brought him, and after he grew to manhood followed the hotel bakery and confectionery business. He died in Canada in 1875. The mother survived him thirty years and passed away in St, Paul, Minnesota, in 1903. They had nine children, of whom William was the fifth born. He attended the common schools of his native town until he reached the age of twelve, and was then sent into the timber region to do a man's work in cutting timber for the lumber markets. The work was hard and the conditions of life attending it were in many respects deplorable. The range of food was narrow and the supply often scant. Climatic conditions were severe at times and shelter was meager and uncertain at the best, while sufficiency of clothing was a thing almost unknown to the hardy woodsmen. Mr. Frickelton had for years only one pair of boots at a time, and he wore these only in the winter months so as to make each pair last several seasons. But he bore his burden bravely and performed his duties faithfully for three years.
At the end of that period he was apprenticed to the tinner'a trade for three years. On the completion of his apprenticeship he came into the United States and sought opportunities for greater advancement in the undeveloped West, locating in Fort Scott, Kansas. for a year during 1876 and 1877. and working at his trade there. From 1877 to 1880 he conducted a flourishing hardware business at Osage Mission, Kansas, in which he was very successful. He sold his business in the year last mentioned and moved to Cherryvale in the same state, and there he again engaged in the hardware trade for a year. In 1889 he sold his store at Cherry-vale and changed his residence to Joplin. Here he at once organized the Joplin Hardware Store, incorporated, and was made the secretary and general manager of the corporation. He managed its affairs successfully until 1897, then became manager of the Halyard Hardware Company, with which he remained three years, doing a good business and extending his acquaintances. In 1900 the Joplin Supply Company was reorganized, and under the new arrangement Mr. Frickelton was made president of the company, a position he has filled from that time to the present (1911). The Joplin Supply Company is the largest business enterprise of the kind in the West. It has a branch house in Webb City and employs regularly a large number of local and traveling salesmen in addition to a complete office force, doing an extensive business in both wholesale and retail lines, and covering in its operations a very large territory. Mr. Frickelton is the active head and controlling spirit of the company, and its success is due in large measure to his great business capacity and his ceaseless industry in the use of it, together with his wide and accurate knowledge of the trade.
Mr. Frickelton takes no very active part in political affairs except to vote as his judgment dictates for the good of the public. He leans strongly to the Democratic party, but is not bound by partisan considerations against what he believes to be for the general welfare, and is therefore classed as an Independent in polities. He is positive and constant in his interest in the advancement and improvement of his city and county, and is one of the most effective and helpful supporters of all projects he thinks likely to work for their betterment. As a member of the Order of Elks, and the T. P. A. he renders valuable aid to the fraternal life of the community, and as an active worker in the Episcopal church he contributes largely to the influence and good results of all the moral agencies at work among the people around him.
On October 29, 1884, he was married in the Episcopal church at Independence, Kansas, to Miss Cora Scott, a native of that state and daughter of John Scott, editor of the Osage Mission Journal and very prominent and influential among the newspaper men of the state. Three children have been born of the union: Frank Scott; Terence, who is married and conducts an automobile supply house in Joplin; and Jene. The father has been very successful in his undertakings since coming West, and is recognized wherever he is know as one of Joplin's most substantial and capable business men. He has a beautiful home in the city, at 614 Jackson avenue, while the Supply Company, over which he presides, is located at the northeast corner of Fourth and Wall streets. His official associates in the management of the company's business are: F. C. Ralston, vice president and secretary, and N. 0. Nelson, of St. Louis, a large stockholder in the company and one of its directors, Like Mr. Frickelton, they are gentlemen. of high character and fine business capacity, and like him, also, they are held in high esteem by all who know them as potential factors in promoting the general weal of Joplin and Jasper county, and influential agencies for good in all phases of their business and social life. [The History of Jasper County and Its People; Joel Thomas Livingston; Public Domain]
William Henry Frickelton Death 09 Jun 1921 San Francisco, San Francisco, California Gender Male Age 63 Married Birth Date 02 Aug 1857 (56)Ontario Canada Funeral Home H. F. Suhr & Co. Funeral Records San Francisco, San Francisco, California Obituary Included YES
Father's Name David Frickelton Birthplace Ireland Mother's Name Rebecca Jackson Birthplace England "California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1979," William Henry Frickelton, 09 Jun 1921; citing funeral home H. F. Suhr & Co., San Francisco, San Francisco, California, record book Vol. 10, p. 8301-8583, 1921, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco History and Archive Center.
William H Frickelton 63 Canada Cora H Frickelton Wife F 50 Kansas Jean S Frickelton Daughter F 21 Missouri
United States Census, 1920," William H Frickelton, San Francisco Assembly District 25, San Francisco, California, United States; citing sheet 3A, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,134.
87855896 Cora Frickelton 87855897 Jean Frickelton 670728 Frank Scott Frickelton Frank S Frickelton Death 25 Nov 1960 El Paso, Texas, United States Marital Status Married Birth Date 15 Oct 1885 Birthplace Kansas
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