Frank Curtis Cool

As printed in 1912

FRANK CURTIS COOL,

One of the substantial native sons of Jasper county who has been content to spend his life in his native community is Frank Curtis Cool, a worthy representative of one of our best pioneer families. By close application he established those habits of industry when a boy which insured his success in later years, being able to extend, from time to time, the area of cultivable land and in due time has found his feet firmly planted upon the highway of a fair measure of material success, with a good farm in his possession and many of the comforts and conveniences of life surrounding him. He has always, like his worthy father before him, been deeply interested in whatever tends to promote the prosperity of his township and county and to him as much as any of the men in his community are we indebted for the excellent improvements for which this section has long been noted. He has also, like his progenitors, used his influence in behalf of all moral and benevolent enterprises, being a friend and liberal patron of the church, believing, as do most fair-minded men, that it is the most potential factor for substantial good the world has ever known or ever will know.

Mr. Cool was born in Adamson's Grove, Jasper county, Iowa, On May 16. 1862, and here he grew to manhood, worked on the home farm during his boyhood and received a meager education in the common schools. He is the son of Abraham and Sarah (Robbins) Cool, one of the earliest families

As printed in Past and present of Jasper County, Iowa (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.