The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 116

FRANK HORSLEY.

Frank Horsley is a member of the firm of Lombard & Horsley, in which connection
he has taken most active and helpful part in promoting development work in the
Yakima valley. He was born in Muscatine county, Iowa, April 16, 1856, and is a
son of William and Laura (McGill) Horsley. The mother died in Iowa and the
father afterward came to Yakima, while his last days were spent in California,
where he passed away at the age of ninety-five years. He was born in England and
came to the United States when a youth of eleven. His life was devoted to
farming and thus he provided for his family.

Frank Horsley is indebted to the public school system of Iowa for the
educational opportunities which he enjoyed, and in his youth and young manhood
he gave his attention to farm work, while later he took up the fruit and produce
commission business in Des Moines, Iowa, gaining considerable knowledge of
horticultural interests in this way. In July, 1889, he arrived in Yakima and
entered into partnership with H. H. Lombard in organizing the firm of Lombard &
Horsley. They purchased an established furniture business and continued active
in that line for a number of years but before closing out their interests in
that connection they turned their attention to the real estate business and
development work. Through all the intervening period they have been active in
that field and have developed a large tract of fruit land and have thus
contributed in great degree to the material growth and improvement of the
valley. Their efforts have been conducted along most progressive lines and
scientific methods have been employed in the cultivation and propagation of
their orchards. Their work has been a strong element in promoting the value of
properties in this locality and as the result of their labors they have won a
substantial measure of success.

In 1887 Mr. Horsley was united in marriage to Miss Angenette Lombard, a sister
of his partner, H. H. Lombard. She died on the 27th of June, 1915, and Mr.
Horsley afterward wedded her sister, Sue M. Lombard, on the 25th of October,
1917. The children of the first marriage are: William H., now residing in
Seattle; and Frank Sears, sixteen years of age.

Mr. Horsley is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also
with the Knights of Pythias lodge, in which he has filled all of the chairs. His
political allegiance is given to the republican party and he served for four
years as county commissioner, making an excellent record in the office. He is
now a member of the school board and he stands at all times for pro4ress and
improvement in public affairs, to which end he is a member of the Commercial
Club, actively cooperating in all well defined plans and measures for the
general good. He has gained a wide acquaintance during the long period of his
residence in Yakima, covering almost thirty years, and throughout the entire
period the integrity of his business methods has never been questioned, while
his enterprise and insight are recognized as salient features in the growth and
upbuilding of this section of the state. All who know him speak of him in terms
of warm regard both as a business man and citizen and his record at all times
measures up to high standards.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.