Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
NameFrank Marion EDMUNDS 
BurialMasonic Memorial Gardens, Reno, Nevada4298
OccupationStationary Engineer, Citrus Farmer, Steam Laundry
EducationStudied Law In New Hampshire
FatherWilliam Henry EDMUNDS (1816-1891)
MotherSarah Jane TUCKER (1823-1895)
Spouses
BurialMasonic Memorial Gardens, Reno, Nevada4301
FatherThompson BARRON (1816-1870)
MotherAmy Anne CHAPIN (1820-1900)
Notes for Frank Marion EDMUNDS
FRANK MARION EDMUNDS
Frank Marion Edmunds was born February 4, 1845, in Andover, New Hampshire, the son of William H. Edmunds and Sarah Edmunds, (The maiden name of his mother is unknown by his descendants.) It is known that one of the grandfathers of Frank Marion Edmunds served in the Revolutionary War, because in later years he related to his children that "his little old grandfather used to sit in the fireplace corner seat and tell how he chewed the leather in his shoes at Valley Forge because he was so hungry," according to Mrs. Alice Edmunds Sauer.
William H. Edmunds had two maiden sisters, Eliza Edmunds and Hattie Edmunds, who lived with their brother, John Edmunds in New Hampshire. In 1903 Mrs. Alice Edmunds Sauer and Miss Amy Edmunds visited them on a trip east.
Little is known about his early life, except that he studied law in New Hampshire under an attorney named John Shirley, who was married to Emroy Barron. (She was the half-sister of Gertrude Barron, whom he never met in New Hampshire but was destined to become his wife.)
Frank Marion Edmunds had one brother, Walter Edmunds; and two sisters, Ida Edmunds and Nell Edmunds.
Lured by the stories of the Comstock at Virginia City, Nevada, Frank Edmunds left New England at the age of twenty and traveled via the Isthmus of Panama to California and thence to the mining camp. He arrived there in 1865 and became a hoisting engineer, working at various times for The Savage, Hale-Norcross, Osbiston, and Gould and Curry mining interests, He was an engineer at the time of the big Gould and Curry fire and worked 16 hours without stopping. He escaped injury, but he saw many of the miners die in the fire.
On Christmas Eve., 1874, he married Gertrude Barron, who was a teacher in Virginia City and also a native of New Hampshire. He had made a large sum of money in the stock market just prior to the wedding, so he generously invited the best man and maid of honor of the wedding party to accompany him and his bride on the trip "below," which was the popular term then used to designate San Francisco. The bridegroom paid all their expenses on the trip.
The ceremony was performed by Bishop Whitaker, a famous old Episcopal minister. An account of the wedding which appeared in one of the Virginia City newspapers had this closing sentence: "They departed for San Francisco, followed by the good wishes and the prayers of their many friends."
On their return from their wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Edmunds established their home on Howard Street in Virginia City, This was high on the hill, looking directly down on the fire station on C Street. Their first daughter was born October 30, 1875, and was called Cora Elizabeth. Her parents were not satisfied with their first selection and changed her name to Marion, following the masculine spelling from her father's middle name. (She later married Albert Wallace Cahlan.) Their second daughter, Alice, (later Mrs. William Sauer), was born on October 7, 1877, and their third daughter, Amy,(who never married) was born on October 12, 1878.
Apparently Frank Edmunds allowed himself only one gay impulsive fling, which occurred when he invited the best man and maid of honor to share his wedding trip, because his children never saw such a mood in him. He always presented to them a "life is real, life is earnest" attitude, Marion Edmunds Cahlan remembers him as "the sober, stern type, with no sense of humor and actually a sour disposition. He was not pleasant to live with, because he never saw the cheerful side of life."
He was about five feet, nine inches in height, with blue eyes, and light brown hair. (In his late years he was almost bald on the top of his head.)
Lured by reports of fortunes to be made in orange groves in Florida, he took his family and left Virginia City in 1880 or 1881. They traveled first to New England, where they visited relatives, then went to a place about 35 miles north of Jacksonville. A man named Whipple from Virginia City, who had sold him on the idea of Florida, also had moved his family there. The men had neglected to investigate the climatic conditions and bought their property in the "frost belt,” where the oranges were frozen each winter.
Meantime, while the men struggled to make a living, their families were having to get along with inadequate housing. The men always talked about building good houses, but they never had the time to do it. Each day Mrs. Edmunds held classes for her three daughters and for the Whipple children, Una, Guy, and Roy.
After three summers and two winters in Florida, Frank Edmunds abandoned citrus farming and moved his family back to Virginia City, where he was assured of steady employment. They made the trip by train, and all were happy to be back in Nevada, where he resumed his work as a hoisting engineer.
Marion Edmunds Cahlan entered the third grade in the First Ward school, after taking an examination in the work she had done under her mother's tutelage. Later she and her sisters all attended the Fourth Ward School, which still stands in Virginia City.
Of their childhood, Alice Edmunds Sauer commented: "We were brought up very strictly, and I don't remember having much social life. We read a great deal, learned to sew, knit, crochet, do drawn work, to make Battenberg lace, embroidery with colored chenille on satin, and make old fashioned samplers and sew some of our summer dresses. I would say that we had a typical New England bringing-up, although we were living in fabulous Virginia City.
"We attended a sewing class with two of the Sharon girls, Blanche and Florence, and with Bessie Patton (a big Comstock name.). We had a croquet ground next door, where we played all day and far into the night, using candles on the wickets. The winters were severe, and we had sleds and went sliding down the many hills of Virginia City. We also used to have 'candy pulls.'"
The children attended the Episcopal Sunday School, and Marion sang in the church choir.
After their return to Virginia City in 1884, Frank Edmunds became interested in community affairs and politics. He was chairman of the Democratic committee in Virginia City and was asked by political leaders to become candidate for lieutenant governor on the state ticket. He declined, because he did not "have enough money to put in." The democrats lost the election, but if they had won, he would have been named as superintendent of the United States Mint in Carson City. He served as treasurer of the Miners' Union, and Alice Edmunds Sauer can remember as a little girl that she was sent on an errand to the bank with a bag containing $1000, because her father was working during banking hours.
When Marion Edmunds Cahlan was graduated from high school in Virginia City in 1893, the family moved to Reno and took up residence at 518 University Avenue. Although her sisters, Alice and Amy, had not completed their high school studies, they took an examination and were accepted for enrollment along with Marion at the University of Nevada. At that time there were about 200 students on the campus.
In Reno, Frank Edmunds worked for a time on the Nevada State Journal, then opened the first steam laundry in Reno. His family later recalled that his partner "beat him out of his money," and he was forced to start over again. He went to Butte, Montana, where there was a big mining boom, which had attracted many of the former Virginia City miners. He became the operator of the compressor engine which sent air into the mines. He was employed by the Gray Rock Mining Company from 1897 until his death in 1906.
After having completed the prescribed two-year course of the Nevada State Normal School of the University of Nevada, Marion Edmunds Cahlan was graduated on June 5, 1895. She accepted a teaching position in a one-room school at Huffaker's in Washoe county, near Reno, where she taught until June, 1898, when she was married to Albert W. Cahlan.
Alice Edmunds and Amy Edmunds continued their studies at the University of Nevada until they had completed the four-year course and were graduated in 1897. That fall Alice Edmunds started teaching in Washoe Valley and continued there until 1903, when she moved to Butte. Mrs. Gertrude Edmunds and daughter, Amy, remained at the family home from 1897 until after the following June, when Marion Edmunds was married to Albert Wallace Cahlan. The bride and groom went to Carson and the mother and daughter moved to Butte to join Frank Edmunds, Amy Edmunds became a teacher there, and her sister, Alice, took a similar position in 1903. They still were teaching in 1906, when their father died. The family home in Butte was at 336 West Cooper Street.
On August 10, 1906, Frank Edmunds completed his work at the mine and returned home at 2 A.M. He suffered a heart seizure a short time later and died at 3:30 A.M. Funeral rites were conducted in Butte, and his body was sent to Reno for burial in the Masonic Cemetery. (The family has been unable to locate the grave in recent years).
A story in the Butte Inter Mountain newspaper at the time his death carried this notation: "Before coming here the family lived for many years at Virginia City, where Mr. Edmunds was prominent in public affairs, holding the position of a school trustee there for two or three terms. Besides being able in his profession and a man of most upright character, Mr. Edmunds possessed a kindly, genial and generous nature that made him popular with all his acquaintances."
An incident at that time indicated that the austerity which his children had observed in him when they were young had mellowed in his later years. Alice Edmunds Sauer reports it thus:
"One thing I never have forgotten in these last 50 years is a little incident which happened when Papa died. A woman and little girl came to the house (perfect strangers), and the mother said her little girl used to meet Papa when he was going to work and walk with him to the mine. The little girl gave us a bouquet of flowers and said, ‘It's for him. He was a nice man.' The mother said the little girl cried and wanted to choose the flowers herself when she heard Papa was gone. I think that incident shows what kind of a man he was."
After her husband's death, Mrs. Gertrude Edmunds returned to Nevada and made her home alternately with her married daughters, Marion Cahlan and Alice Edmunds Sauer, or with Miss Amy Edmunds in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mrs. Edmunds died in June, 1925.
Miss Amy Edmunds taught for several years in Butte, then moved to Minneapolis, where she joined the faculty of the Vocational High School and taught until her retirement in 1946, She went to Columbia University in New York City to obtain her master's degree in education during her teaching career. When she retired, she moved to Reno, where she became active in the YWCA and the American Association of University Women. She suffered a heart attack and died a few hours later in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 13, 1951, while visiting her sister, Marion Edmunds Cahlan. Funeral services and cremation were held in Sacramento, California.
Alice Edmunds married William Sauer shortly after returning from Butte, and they have resided for more than fifty years in the Washoe Valley, where he has been engaged in ranching. To them were born four daughters, Gertrude Sauer, who married Francis M. Leary; Jean Sauer, who married Leslie Fry, and her twin, Myra Sauer, who married Vlad Ratay; and Alice Louise Sauer, who married George Lohse.
written Dec. 13, 1959
(By Florence Lee Jones Cahlan)
Las Vegas, Nevada
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
1. Documents, clippings and reminiscences of Alice Sauer
2. Reminiscences of Marion Cahlan
Frank Marion Edmunds was born February 4, 1845, in Andover, New Hampshire, the son of William H. Edmunds and Sarah Edmunds, (The maiden name of his mother is unknown by his descendants.) It is known that one of the grandfathers of Frank Marion Edmunds served in the Revolutionary War, because in later years he related to his children that "his little old grandfather used to sit in the fireplace corner seat and tell how he chewed the leather in his shoes at Valley Forge because he was so hungry," according to Mrs. Alice Edmunds Sauer.
William H. Edmunds had two maiden sisters, Eliza Edmunds and Hattie Edmunds, who lived with their brother, John Edmunds in New Hampshire. In 1903 Mrs. Alice Edmunds Sauer and Miss Amy Edmunds visited them on a trip east.
Little is known about his early life, except that he studied law in New Hampshire under an attorney named John Shirley, who was married to Emroy Barron. (She was the half-sister of Gertrude Barron, whom he never met in New Hampshire but was destined to become his wife.)
Frank Marion Edmunds had one brother, Walter Edmunds; and two sisters, Ida Edmunds and Nell Edmunds.
Lured by the stories of the Comstock at Virginia City, Nevada, Frank Edmunds left New England at the age of twenty and traveled via the Isthmus of Panama to California and thence to the mining camp. He arrived there in 1865 and became a hoisting engineer, working at various times for The Savage, Hale-Norcross, Osbiston, and Gould and Curry mining interests, He was an engineer at the time of the big Gould and Curry fire and worked 16 hours without stopping. He escaped injury, but he saw many of the miners die in the fire.
On Christmas Eve., 1874, he married Gertrude Barron, who was a teacher in Virginia City and also a native of New Hampshire. He had made a large sum of money in the stock market just prior to the wedding, so he generously invited the best man and maid of honor of the wedding party to accompany him and his bride on the trip "below," which was the popular term then used to designate San Francisco. The bridegroom paid all their expenses on the trip.
The ceremony was performed by Bishop Whitaker, a famous old Episcopal minister. An account of the wedding which appeared in one of the Virginia City newspapers had this closing sentence: "They departed for San Francisco, followed by the good wishes and the prayers of their many friends."
On their return from their wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Edmunds established their home on Howard Street in Virginia City, This was high on the hill, looking directly down on the fire station on C Street. Their first daughter was born October 30, 1875, and was called Cora Elizabeth. Her parents were not satisfied with their first selection and changed her name to Marion, following the masculine spelling from her father's middle name. (She later married Albert Wallace Cahlan.) Their second daughter, Alice, (later Mrs. William Sauer), was born on October 7, 1877, and their third daughter, Amy,(who never married) was born on October 12, 1878.
Apparently Frank Edmunds allowed himself only one gay impulsive fling, which occurred when he invited the best man and maid of honor to share his wedding trip, because his children never saw such a mood in him. He always presented to them a "life is real, life is earnest" attitude, Marion Edmunds Cahlan remembers him as "the sober, stern type, with no sense of humor and actually a sour disposition. He was not pleasant to live with, because he never saw the cheerful side of life."
He was about five feet, nine inches in height, with blue eyes, and light brown hair. (In his late years he was almost bald on the top of his head.)
Lured by reports of fortunes to be made in orange groves in Florida, he took his family and left Virginia City in 1880 or 1881. They traveled first to New England, where they visited relatives, then went to a place about 35 miles north of Jacksonville. A man named Whipple from Virginia City, who had sold him on the idea of Florida, also had moved his family there. The men had neglected to investigate the climatic conditions and bought their property in the "frost belt,” where the oranges were frozen each winter.
Meantime, while the men struggled to make a living, their families were having to get along with inadequate housing. The men always talked about building good houses, but they never had the time to do it. Each day Mrs. Edmunds held classes for her three daughters and for the Whipple children, Una, Guy, and Roy.
After three summers and two winters in Florida, Frank Edmunds abandoned citrus farming and moved his family back to Virginia City, where he was assured of steady employment. They made the trip by train, and all were happy to be back in Nevada, where he resumed his work as a hoisting engineer.
Marion Edmunds Cahlan entered the third grade in the First Ward school, after taking an examination in the work she had done under her mother's tutelage. Later she and her sisters all attended the Fourth Ward School, which still stands in Virginia City.
Of their childhood, Alice Edmunds Sauer commented: "We were brought up very strictly, and I don't remember having much social life. We read a great deal, learned to sew, knit, crochet, do drawn work, to make Battenberg lace, embroidery with colored chenille on satin, and make old fashioned samplers and sew some of our summer dresses. I would say that we had a typical New England bringing-up, although we were living in fabulous Virginia City.
"We attended a sewing class with two of the Sharon girls, Blanche and Florence, and with Bessie Patton (a big Comstock name.). We had a croquet ground next door, where we played all day and far into the night, using candles on the wickets. The winters were severe, and we had sleds and went sliding down the many hills of Virginia City. We also used to have 'candy pulls.'"
The children attended the Episcopal Sunday School, and Marion sang in the church choir.
After their return to Virginia City in 1884, Frank Edmunds became interested in community affairs and politics. He was chairman of the Democratic committee in Virginia City and was asked by political leaders to become candidate for lieutenant governor on the state ticket. He declined, because he did not "have enough money to put in." The democrats lost the election, but if they had won, he would have been named as superintendent of the United States Mint in Carson City. He served as treasurer of the Miners' Union, and Alice Edmunds Sauer can remember as a little girl that she was sent on an errand to the bank with a bag containing $1000, because her father was working during banking hours.
When Marion Edmunds Cahlan was graduated from high school in Virginia City in 1893, the family moved to Reno and took up residence at 518 University Avenue. Although her sisters, Alice and Amy, had not completed their high school studies, they took an examination and were accepted for enrollment along with Marion at the University of Nevada. At that time there were about 200 students on the campus.
In Reno, Frank Edmunds worked for a time on the Nevada State Journal, then opened the first steam laundry in Reno. His family later recalled that his partner "beat him out of his money," and he was forced to start over again. He went to Butte, Montana, where there was a big mining boom, which had attracted many of the former Virginia City miners. He became the operator of the compressor engine which sent air into the mines. He was employed by the Gray Rock Mining Company from 1897 until his death in 1906.
After having completed the prescribed two-year course of the Nevada State Normal School of the University of Nevada, Marion Edmunds Cahlan was graduated on June 5, 1895. She accepted a teaching position in a one-room school at Huffaker's in Washoe county, near Reno, where she taught until June, 1898, when she was married to Albert W. Cahlan.
Alice Edmunds and Amy Edmunds continued their studies at the University of Nevada until they had completed the four-year course and were graduated in 1897. That fall Alice Edmunds started teaching in Washoe Valley and continued there until 1903, when she moved to Butte. Mrs. Gertrude Edmunds and daughter, Amy, remained at the family home from 1897 until after the following June, when Marion Edmunds was married to Albert Wallace Cahlan. The bride and groom went to Carson and the mother and daughter moved to Butte to join Frank Edmunds, Amy Edmunds became a teacher there, and her sister, Alice, took a similar position in 1903. They still were teaching in 1906, when their father died. The family home in Butte was at 336 West Cooper Street.
On August 10, 1906, Frank Edmunds completed his work at the mine and returned home at 2 A.M. He suffered a heart seizure a short time later and died at 3:30 A.M. Funeral rites were conducted in Butte, and his body was sent to Reno for burial in the Masonic Cemetery. (The family has been unable to locate the grave in recent years).
A story in the Butte Inter Mountain newspaper at the time his death carried this notation: "Before coming here the family lived for many years at Virginia City, where Mr. Edmunds was prominent in public affairs, holding the position of a school trustee there for two or three terms. Besides being able in his profession and a man of most upright character, Mr. Edmunds possessed a kindly, genial and generous nature that made him popular with all his acquaintances."
An incident at that time indicated that the austerity which his children had observed in him when they were young had mellowed in his later years. Alice Edmunds Sauer reports it thus:
"One thing I never have forgotten in these last 50 years is a little incident which happened when Papa died. A woman and little girl came to the house (perfect strangers), and the mother said her little girl used to meet Papa when he was going to work and walk with him to the mine. The little girl gave us a bouquet of flowers and said, ‘It's for him. He was a nice man.' The mother said the little girl cried and wanted to choose the flowers herself when she heard Papa was gone. I think that incident shows what kind of a man he was."
After her husband's death, Mrs. Gertrude Edmunds returned to Nevada and made her home alternately with her married daughters, Marion Cahlan and Alice Edmunds Sauer, or with Miss Amy Edmunds in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mrs. Edmunds died in June, 1925.
Miss Amy Edmunds taught for several years in Butte, then moved to Minneapolis, where she joined the faculty of the Vocational High School and taught until her retirement in 1946, She went to Columbia University in New York City to obtain her master's degree in education during her teaching career. When she retired, she moved to Reno, where she became active in the YWCA and the American Association of University Women. She suffered a heart attack and died a few hours later in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 13, 1951, while visiting her sister, Marion Edmunds Cahlan. Funeral services and cremation were held in Sacramento, California.
Alice Edmunds married William Sauer shortly after returning from Butte, and they have resided for more than fifty years in the Washoe Valley, where he has been engaged in ranching. To them were born four daughters, Gertrude Sauer, who married Francis M. Leary; Jean Sauer, who married Leslie Fry, and her twin, Myra Sauer, who married Vlad Ratay; and Alice Louise Sauer, who married George Lohse.
written Dec. 13, 1959
(By Florence Lee Jones Cahlan)
Las Vegas, Nevada
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
1. Documents, clippings and reminiscences of Alice Sauer
2. Reminiscences of Marion Cahlan
Census notes for Frank Marion EDMUNDS
1850 New Hampshire, Merrimack County, Andover, p. 189 (taken 4 Sep 1850)
dwelling 72, family 80
William H. Edmunds, age 34, male, farmer, real estate $2300, born New Hampshire
Sarah ——————, age 27, female, born New Hampshire
Mariam —————-, age 4, male, born New Hampshire
Ellen ——————-, age 3, female, born New Hampshire
1860 New Hampshire, Merrimack County, Andover Twp p. 31
dwelling 541, family 546
William H. Edmunds, age 43, male, farmer, real estate $4000, personal, $700, born New Hampshire
Sarah J. —————, age 34, female, born New Hampshire
Marion G. —————, age 15, male, farm servant, born New Hampshire
Ellen ———————, age 12, female, born New Hampshire
Ida J. ———————, age 6, female, born New Hampshire
Walter ——————-, age 2, male, born New Hampshire
Jonathan —————-, age 79, male, farm hand, born Massachusetts
1870
1880 Nevada, Storey County, Virginia City, E.D. 46, page 2B (taken 7 Jun 1880)
78 South Howard St., dwelling 19, family 22
Edmunds, Frank M., white, male, age 35, head, married, engineer, born New Hampshire, parents born New Hampshire
————-, Gertrude, white, female, age 32, wife, married, keeping house, born New Hampshire, father born Massachusetts, mother born New Hampshire
————-, Cora, white, female, age 4, daughter, single, at home, born Nevada, parents born New Hampshire
————-, Alice, white, female, age 2, daughter, single, at home, born Nevada, parents born New Hampshire
————-, Amie, white, female, age 1, daughter, single, at home, born Nevada, parents born New Hampshire
1900 Montana, Silver Bow County, Silver Bow Township, Butte City, second ward, E.D. 102, sheet 4B (taken 4 Jun 1900)
314 West Copper, dwelling 63, family 82
Edmonds, Frank M., head, white, male, Feb 1845, age 55, married for 26 years, born New Hampshire, parents born New Hampshire, engineer
————, Gertrude, wife, white, female, Dec 1857, age 52, married for 26 years, mother of 3 children, 3 living, born New Hampshire, father born Massachusetts, mother born New Hampshire
————, Amy, daughter, white, female, Nov 1878, age 21, single, born Montana, parents born New Hampshire, school teacher
————————deceased
dwelling 72, family 80
William H. Edmunds, age 34, male, farmer, real estate $2300, born New Hampshire
Sarah ——————, age 27, female, born New Hampshire
Mariam —————-, age 4, male, born New Hampshire
Ellen ——————-, age 3, female, born New Hampshire
1860 New Hampshire, Merrimack County, Andover Twp p. 31
dwelling 541, family 546
William H. Edmunds, age 43, male, farmer, real estate $4000, personal, $700, born New Hampshire
Sarah J. —————, age 34, female, born New Hampshire
Marion G. —————, age 15, male, farm servant, born New Hampshire
Ellen ———————, age 12, female, born New Hampshire
Ida J. ———————, age 6, female, born New Hampshire
Walter ——————-, age 2, male, born New Hampshire
Jonathan —————-, age 79, male, farm hand, born Massachusetts
1870
1880 Nevada, Storey County, Virginia City, E.D. 46, page 2B (taken 7 Jun 1880)
78 South Howard St., dwelling 19, family 22
Edmunds, Frank M., white, male, age 35, head, married, engineer, born New Hampshire, parents born New Hampshire
————-, Gertrude, white, female, age 32, wife, married, keeping house, born New Hampshire, father born Massachusetts, mother born New Hampshire
————-, Cora, white, female, age 4, daughter, single, at home, born Nevada, parents born New Hampshire
————-, Alice, white, female, age 2, daughter, single, at home, born Nevada, parents born New Hampshire
————-, Amie, white, female, age 1, daughter, single, at home, born Nevada, parents born New Hampshire
1900 Montana, Silver Bow County, Silver Bow Township, Butte City, second ward, E.D. 102, sheet 4B (taken 4 Jun 1900)
314 West Copper, dwelling 63, family 82
Edmonds, Frank M., head, white, male, Feb 1845, age 55, married for 26 years, born New Hampshire, parents born New Hampshire, engineer
————, Gertrude, wife, white, female, Dec 1857, age 52, married for 26 years, mother of 3 children, 3 living, born New Hampshire, father born Massachusetts, mother born New Hampshire
————, Amy, daughter, white, female, Nov 1878, age 21, single, born Montana, parents born New Hampshire, school teacher
————————deceased
Obituary notes for Frank Marion EDMUNDS
Daily Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nevada) 1906 August 14 page 3
Another Pioneer Has Crossed the Divide
Review of the Life of Frank M. Edmunds, Who Died Recently at His Home in Butte City -- Formerly a Resident of Reno
The death of Frank M. Edmunds at Butte, Montana, removes another from the swiftly lessening ranks of those who shared in the early history of Nevada. Accompanied by the grief stricken widow and daughters, the remains were brought for interment to the state in which the best years of Mr. Edmund’s life were spent.
He was a native of Andover, New Hampshire, born in 1845, and crossed the Isthmus for California at the age of 20. With many others he was shortly afterward attracted to Virginia City and there in 1874 he was married to Miss Gertrude Barron. Three daughters, Mrs. A. W. Cahlan of Reno, Alice and Amy were born to them. Mr. Edmunds was numbered among the progressive and respected citizens of the Comstock for many years and in 1893 removed with his family to Reno. Here he was for a time engaged on the Nevada State Journal and later opened the first steam laundry in Reno. For the past nine years the family home has been in Butte, Montana, where the daughters, Misses Alice and Amy, members of the class of ‘97 Nevada State University are teachers in the public schools.
The bereaved family, the many sorrowing friends both in Nevada and in the later home at Butte, cherish the memory of a loving father and devoted husband, a faithful friend and upright and respected citizen, for as such his life was worthily lived.
The Anaconda Standard, Saturday, 11 August 1906, p. 9
Frank M. Edmunds Dead
Works as usual Thursday night, but meets death very soon after reaching his home
Frank M. Edmunds died suddenly early yesterday morning at his home, 336 West Copper street. Mr. Edmunds had for a number of years been employed as an engineer at the Gray Rock Mine. He went to work at 5:30 o’clock yesterday morning and as soon as he reached home complained of a cramp. Medical help was summoned, but Edmunds died before a doctor could arrive. Drs. Turner and Campbell arrived a few minutes after he had breathed his last. It is supposed that death was occasioned by gastric trouble acting on the heart.
Mr. Edmunds was 61 years of age and was born in New Hampshire. He had lived in the West since he was 19 years old, having been employed in the camps of Virginia City, Reno and Washoe before coming to Butte. He is survived by a wife and three daughters. One of these is married, Mrs. A.W. Cahlan, living at Reno, Nev. Misses Alice and Amy live at the home of the parents.
The funeral will be held at 3 o’clock this afternoon at the residence. The services will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Duncan of the Unitarian church.
Newspaper clipping in family papers, dated 10 August 1906
Frank Edmunds Dead
Unexpected, also, was the death of Frank M. Edmunds, 336 West Copper street, a highly respected resident of Butte for the past seven years. Mr. Edmunds was employed as a compressor man in the Gray Rock mine. When he returned home yesterday morning he complained of not feeling well, saying that his stomach hurt him. Drs. Campbell and Turner were summoned, but before they arrived Mr. Edmunds was dec, heart failure being ascribed as the cause of his demise.
Coroner Notified
Coroner Egan was notified, but decided that the facts surrounding Mr. Edmund’s death did not require and inquest. The body was removed to White & Krebs’ undertaking rooms,
Mr. Edmunds was sixty-one years old and had many friends in Butte. He came west when only nineteen years old and lived for a long time in Virginia City, Nevada.
Besides a widow, he leaves three daughters, two residing here and the third, Mrs. A.W. Cahlan, living in Reno, Nevada. His other other daughters are Misses Alice and Amy Edmunds, both teachers in the public schools here.
The body will be shipped to Reno, Nevada for interment.
Another Pioneer Has Crossed the Divide
Review of the Life of Frank M. Edmunds, Who Died Recently at His Home in Butte City -- Formerly a Resident of Reno
The death of Frank M. Edmunds at Butte, Montana, removes another from the swiftly lessening ranks of those who shared in the early history of Nevada. Accompanied by the grief stricken widow and daughters, the remains were brought for interment to the state in which the best years of Mr. Edmund’s life were spent.
He was a native of Andover, New Hampshire, born in 1845, and crossed the Isthmus for California at the age of 20. With many others he was shortly afterward attracted to Virginia City and there in 1874 he was married to Miss Gertrude Barron. Three daughters, Mrs. A. W. Cahlan of Reno, Alice and Amy were born to them. Mr. Edmunds was numbered among the progressive and respected citizens of the Comstock for many years and in 1893 removed with his family to Reno. Here he was for a time engaged on the Nevada State Journal and later opened the first steam laundry in Reno. For the past nine years the family home has been in Butte, Montana, where the daughters, Misses Alice and Amy, members of the class of ‘97 Nevada State University are teachers in the public schools.
The bereaved family, the many sorrowing friends both in Nevada and in the later home at Butte, cherish the memory of a loving father and devoted husband, a faithful friend and upright and respected citizen, for as such his life was worthily lived.
The Anaconda Standard, Saturday, 11 August 1906, p. 9
Frank M. Edmunds Dead
Works as usual Thursday night, but meets death very soon after reaching his home
Frank M. Edmunds died suddenly early yesterday morning at his home, 336 West Copper street. Mr. Edmunds had for a number of years been employed as an engineer at the Gray Rock Mine. He went to work at 5:30 o’clock yesterday morning and as soon as he reached home complained of a cramp. Medical help was summoned, but Edmunds died before a doctor could arrive. Drs. Turner and Campbell arrived a few minutes after he had breathed his last. It is supposed that death was occasioned by gastric trouble acting on the heart.
Mr. Edmunds was 61 years of age and was born in New Hampshire. He had lived in the West since he was 19 years old, having been employed in the camps of Virginia City, Reno and Washoe before coming to Butte. He is survived by a wife and three daughters. One of these is married, Mrs. A.W. Cahlan, living at Reno, Nev. Misses Alice and Amy live at the home of the parents.
The funeral will be held at 3 o’clock this afternoon at the residence. The services will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Duncan of the Unitarian church.
Newspaper clipping in family papers, dated 10 August 1906
Frank Edmunds Dead
Unexpected, also, was the death of Frank M. Edmunds, 336 West Copper street, a highly respected resident of Butte for the past seven years. Mr. Edmunds was employed as a compressor man in the Gray Rock mine. When he returned home yesterday morning he complained of not feeling well, saying that his stomach hurt him. Drs. Campbell and Turner were summoned, but before they arrived Mr. Edmunds was dec, heart failure being ascribed as the cause of his demise.
Coroner Notified
Coroner Egan was notified, but decided that the facts surrounding Mr. Edmund’s death did not require and inquest. The body was removed to White & Krebs’ undertaking rooms,
Mr. Edmunds was sixty-one years old and had many friends in Butte. He came west when only nineteen years old and lived for a long time in Virginia City, Nevada.
Besides a widow, he leaves three daughters, two residing here and the third, Mrs. A.W. Cahlan, living in Reno, Nevada. His other other daughters are Misses Alice and Amy Edmunds, both teachers in the public schools here.
The body will be shipped to Reno, Nevada for interment.