Born and raised in Catskill, NY, Frank was an athletically-inclined youngster, and often swam across the Hudson River and excelled at acrobatics. It is said that he ran away from home as a teenager to join a circus.
After his parents split up, he eventually joined his mother and sisters in Utica, NY. Among numerous early occupations, he drove a bakery wagon, and was employed as a cigar-maker. A true jack-of-all-trades, he moved his family around frequently wherever he could find work as a plumber, carpenter, painter, etc.
At age 18, he married first wife Mary Mackey on 22 Aug 1914 in Utica, and the couple had two daughters, Edith and Mildred.
When he married Angeline Stewart on 1 Oct 1923 they had a double wedding ceremony with his first wife Mary (Mackey) Acker and her second husband Levi Crouse, and the families remained friends. Frank & Angeline had children Ethel, Walter & Frank, and raised their granddaughter Georgeanne as their own.
After his parents split up, he eventually joined his mother and sisters in Utica, NY. Among numerous early occupations, he drove a bakery wagon, and was employed as a cigar-maker. A true jack-of-all-trades, he moved his family around frequently wherever he could find work as a plumber, carpenter, painter, etc.
At age 18, he married first wife Mary Mackey on 22 Aug 1914 in Utica, and the couple had two daughters, Edith and Mildred.
When he married Angeline Stewart on 1 Oct 1923 they had a double wedding ceremony with his first wife Mary (Mackey) Acker and her second husband Levi Crouse, and the families remained friends. Frank & Angeline had children Ethel, Walter & Frank, and raised their granddaughter Georgeanne as their own.
Born and raised in Catskill, NY, Frank was an athletically-inclined youngster, and often swam across the Hudson River and excelled at acrobatics. It is said that he ran away from home as a teenager to join a circus.
After his parents split up, he eventually joined his mother and sisters in Utica, NY. Among numerous early occupations, he drove a bakery wagon, and was employed as a cigar-maker. A true jack-of-all-trades, he moved his family around frequently wherever he could find work as a plumber, carpenter, painter, etc.
At age 18, he married first wife Mary Mackey on 22 Aug 1914 in Utica, and the couple had two daughters, Edith and Mildred.
When he married Angeline Stewart on 1 Oct 1923 they had a double wedding ceremony with his first wife Mary (Mackey) Acker and her second husband Levi Crouse, and the families remained friends. Frank & Angeline had children Ethel, Walter & Frank, and raised their granddaughter Georgeanne as their own.
After his parents split up, he eventually joined his mother and sisters in Utica, NY. Among numerous early occupations, he drove a bakery wagon, and was employed as a cigar-maker. A true jack-of-all-trades, he moved his family around frequently wherever he could find work as a plumber, carpenter, painter, etc.
At age 18, he married first wife Mary Mackey on 22 Aug 1914 in Utica, and the couple had two daughters, Edith and Mildred.
When he married Angeline Stewart on 1 Oct 1923 they had a double wedding ceremony with his first wife Mary (Mackey) Acker and her second husband Levi Crouse, and the families remained friends. Frank & Angeline had children Ethel, Walter & Frank, and raised their granddaughter Georgeanne as their own.
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