Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 887.
 
FRANK M. DUKE

     has a home consisting of two hundred and thirty-seven and one-half acres of
land three miles south from Lakeview, where he is engaged in fanning and stock
raising.  His land is well improved and is for the most part devoted to the
growing of hay for feed for Mr. Duke's large herd of cattle.
     Born April 18, 1861, Frank M. Duke is a native of Morgan county, Missouri.
His father was William H. Duke, a native of Madison county, Kentucky, and went
to Missouri at the age of nineteen years. He came to the Goose Lake country in
1876, and lived there until his death at the age of seventy-three years, March
18, 1904.  William H. Duke's father was Patrick Henry Duke and his grandfather
served in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War. Our subject's mother
was Ann (Thompson) Duke, who was born, and who died, in Missouri.
     Mr. Duke came west with his father in 1876. He began life for himself in
1882, his start, being by working for a salary on a ranch. He located a
homestead in 1888 and has been engaged in stock raising and farming since that
time.
     In 1904 Mr. Duke was the nominee of the Democratic party for the office of
county sheriff, but owing to the great strength of the Republican party in Lake
county, and to the popularity of its nominee for the office to which Mr. Duke
aspired, he was defeated at the polls.
     Mr. Duke was married November 20, 1887, to Mary E. Feeler, born in Walla
Walla county, Washington. Her father is Simon Feeler, a native of Indiana and an
early pioneer of Walla Walla county. From Walla Walla he removed to California,
then to Goose Lake valley, and lastly to the vicinity of Fruitland, Stevens
county, Washington, where he is now living.  Mrs. Duke's mother was Martha
(King) Feeler, a native of the state of Missouri.
     Mr. and Mrs. Duke are parents of one child Lora Ethel Duke.
     Mr. and Mrs. Duke are regarded as being among the most strictly moral and
honorable residents of Lake county, and both are members of the Baptist church.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in February 2011 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.