History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . the New Hartford Presbyterian Church in 1876. Since1884 he has Ijcen an elder in tlie Westminster PresbyterianChurch, Utica. bor recreation he takes huntinj;- and hshing- trips into theAdirondacks; plays i^olf and bowls. Says that he will gladly-welcome any mend)er of 70 at 355 (lenesee St., Utica, N. Y. Edward Frank , Oreg^on. He was born in PalmyraTownship, Lee County, Illinois,(in lanuary 25th, 1846. Hisfathers name was Herman Sox^l)()rn in (iermany, November 14,1S14, and emigrated to the LnitcdStates wh
History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . the New Hartford Presbyterian Church in 1876. Since1884 he has Ijcen an elder in tlie Westminster PresbyterianChurch, Utica. bor recreation he takes huntinj;- and hshing- trips into theAdirondacks; plays i^olf and bowls. Says that he will gladly-welcome any mend)er of 70 at 355 (lenesee St., Utica, N. Y. Edward Frank , Oreg^on. He was born in PalmyraTownship, Lee County, Illinois,(in lanuary 25th, 1846. Hisfathers name was Herman Sox^l)()rn in (iermany, November 14,1S14, and emigrated to the LnitcdStates when a \()ung man andsettled in Pennsylvania. lie en-gagi-(I in railrtiad building. Dur-ing his three years residence inthat state he married Margaret( )\vens and moved soon after toSt. Louis, Mo., and a year laterto or near Sterling, III., where helocated among the earliest settlersof the state, i le soon owned 240 acres of the prairie land in RockRiver Xalley. There he raised a family of nine children—sixgirls and three I)oys—all of whom are now living, subject of this. l)i:iARTMKXi- or LrnoKATLRE, SiiisNt, i;, AM) Akis. 209 sketch being; the fourtl) cliild. His father (Heel March 24, mother was Ixirn in Luzerne Conntw Ienn., Xoveinl)er 14,1814—the same (hi\ , month and \ear ot his fathers hirth. Hieywere married I )ecemher 27, 18:^8. She is now hvins;- in Sterhng^in. Juhvard !•. Sox receive<l his earl\- echication in llie et)nntryschools of Ihinois. preparing- tiiere for colletje. lie enteredWhcaton College, Illinois, in the fall of 1865 and spent two yearsof his college life there and then went to the University of Michi-gan in 1867. entering the class of 70, hnt remained only oneyear. May 30. 1864, he enlisted in tlu- military service, becom-ing-a private in Co. I), 140th regiment Illinois vohmteer infantryand served until ( )ctober Jt;, 1864; his service being; mostly inTemiessee and Missonri. lie was a charter member in Mc-Phersons Jost, (1. .\. R., and
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