Hull, Lindley M., compiler and editor. "A History of Central Washington, Including the Famous Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan and the Columbia Valleys." Spokane: Press of Shaw & Borden Co., 1929. p. 213. EMIL FRANK who for forty odd years has been identified with the Wenatchee country, is a native of Germany. He came to the United States in 1880. The following year he located in California. In 1885 he went to Seattle, and a year later came to the Wenatchee Valley and selected land in what has been long known as Nahahum Canyon. His coming closely approximated the arrival of such men as Dennis Strong, J. F. Woodring, Ed Hinman, Alex Brender, J. L. Weythman and Deak Brown. Being young, vigorous and given to habits of industry he fell to with a will to improve his newly acquired ranch, which gave him enough to do. And yet he says that at times he was so over-whelmed with desolation and loneliness that he would start out to visit his neighbors, even going as far away as the George Miller ranch, twenty miles distant, to stay for days at a time or until his spirits were revived, when he would return to the ranch and resume work. In 1892 he sold his well developed ranch to Egbert Trask and removed to Leavenworth where he engaged in the meat business. He also acquired a ranch in the Chumstick Valley about a mile and a half from town. It was at this time that Leavenworth began to develop rapidly and it soon came to be known as the most prosperous town in what is now Chelan County. About the year 1911 he launched the meat business in Wenatchee, and soon thereafter established a residence on North Wenatchee Avenue where he has since continued to live. A little later, as stated elsewhere, he with W. H. Little and several local people merged their interests in the organization of the Inland Meat Company which from the first has been a prosperous concern. In August, 1893, at Seattle, Mr. Frank was married to Miss Clara U. Lumma. Mrs. Frank is a pioneer in her own right, having located in Washington in the late eighties. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank as follows: Alfred, Amelia, Gretchen, William, Bertha, Marie and Elsie. Amelia is Mrs. Charles Kempter, now of California. Gretchen is Mrs. E. L. Minard, of Seattle, where also at this writing (1927) may be found Bertha and Marie. Elsie resides at home with her parents, and William is in Chicago. During a few years of the early settlements in the Wenatchee Valley, Indians were fairly numerous, and at times their numbers would be augmented by visits from other tribes. They were not regarded as at all troublesome except when under the influence of whiskey acquired from renegade whites. Mr. Frank had from the first cultivated friendly relations with them, and the local Indians whether drunk or sober always asserted their friendship and defense for the Frank family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank, in common with other worthwhile pioneers, in the early days met with experiences that were rich and full of interest; likewise their journey down the highway of matrimony has been attended with devotion to duty as they met it; and as they approach the evening of life, they will have in full measure the satisfaction that comes of work well performed. * * * * Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in April 2007 by Diana Smith. Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Washington Biographies Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the individual featured in the biographies.