Frank Frantz was born in
Roanoke, Illinois, May 7, 1872. he was educated in the public
schools of his native state and spent two years as a student at Eureka
College. He settled at Enid, Oklahoma in September 1893, at the
opening of the Cherokee Strip.
At the outbreak of the
Spanish-American War he was in Arizona, from which territory he
entered the military service as a first lieutenant in the 1st United
States Volunteer Cavalry. He was promoted to the rank of captain
before the close of the War.
In 1901 he was appointed
postmaster at Enid. Two years later he was named as U. S. Indian
Agent at the Osage agency.
He was appointed governor
of Oklahoma, his term beginning January 5, 1906, and running until the
end of the Territorial regime, November 16, 1907.
Source: A
History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M.
Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
