The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . d successuntil 1868. The latter years, from 1852, he did not devote all his time to business, but bought a two-hundred-acre farm, two miles from Racine, and hassuperintended its improvement, which was morecongenial to his tastes. Here, Cincinnatus-like, heenjoys that quietude which he values higher thanrenown. Mr. Fratt has been member of the State senatefrom Racine county, was elected president of theRacine County Agricultural Society in 1858; wasagain elected to the same position i
The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . d successuntil 1868. The latter years, from 1852, he did not devote all his time to business, but bought a two-hundred-acre farm, two miles from Racine, and hassuperintended its improvement, which was morecongenial to his tastes. Here, Cincinnatus-like, heenjoys that quietude which he values higher thanrenown. Mr. Fratt has been member of the State senatefrom Racine county, was elected president of theRacine County Agricultural Society in 1858; wasagain elected to the same position in 1870, and hasbeen reelected each year to the present time. Heserved as school district clerk for sixteen years; isa member of the executive committee of the StateAgricultural Society; was a director of the RacineCounty Bank from 1852, at which time the bank wasorganized, until 1858, when he was elected presidentof the same, and continued its presiding officeruntil the bank was changed to the First NationalBank of Racine, when he was again elected presi-dent of the bank, and still holds that position. A-^Th^^Ztr THE UNITED STATES BlOGRAPHTCAf. DfCTTONARV. 273 Fratt is very much respected among a large circle ofacquaintances. He was nominated for Congress bythe democratic reform party in 1874, but was de-feated by Chas. G. Williams, republican. .Mr. Fratt was married in 1845 to Miss Elsie Duffes; has three sons and three daughters, and en-joys the happiness of harmonious domestic is a gentleman of pleasant address, plain andunassuming in his manners, and has a host offriends. |OHN M. CHADWICK, JOHN MONROE CHADWICK was born inJ Fayette county, Pennsylvania, October 7, 1822, ;and is the second living son of John and Polly \(Scudder) Chadwick, of the same State. Thisbranch of the Chadwick family is descended fromFrench Huguenot ancestors, who took refuge inEngland from the persecution of the sixteenthcentury, whence the great-grandfather of our sub-ject immigrate
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