Augustus Frank

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Frank was born in Warsaw, Wyoming County, the son of Augustus and Jane (Patterson) Frank.{{cite book|last=Biographical Review Publishing Company|title=Biographical Review; this Volume Contains Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Livingston and Wyoming Counties, New York|date=1895|publisher=Biographical Review Publishing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_R8wpAQAAMAAJ/page/n609 659]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_R8wpAQAAMAAJ }} He attended the common schools and engaged in mercantile pursuits.{{cite book|last=W. E. Morrison|title=History of Wyoming County, N.Y.: With Illustrations, Biographical Sketches, and Portraits of Some Pioneers and Prominent Residents|date=1880|publisher=W. E. Morrison|page=288|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K01QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA288 }}

In 1856, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. He was elected and served three terms as a Republican Congressman from New York, serving from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1865, in the 36th, 37th, and 38th Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1864. He was instrumental in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment which abolished slavery.{{cite book|last=Warsaw Centennial Association|title=History of the Centennial Celebration, Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York, June 28-July 2, 1903|date=1903|publisher=Western New-Yorker|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028826639/page/181 181]|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028826639 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.unk.edu/offices/frankhouse/The_Frank_Family/l |title=Frank House |publisher=University of Nebraska Kearney |accessdate=March 14, 2014 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

After his final term in Congress, Frank became the director of the Wyoming County National Bank in 1865. In 1867 and 1868, he was a member of the New York constitutional convention. From 1870 to 1872, Frank was one of the managers of the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane in Buffalo, New York. He organized the Bank of Warsaw in 1871 and served as its president until his death in 1895.{{cite book|last=Warsaw Centennial Association|title=History of the Centennial Celebration, Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York, June 28-July 2, 1903|date=1903|publisher=Western New-Yorker|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028826639/page/181 181]|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028826639 }}

Frank was the director and vice president of the Buffalo and New York City Railroad Company in 1887-1893,{{cite book|last=New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners|title=Annual Report, Volume 2|date=1888|publisher=New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners|page=154|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImAaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA154 }}{{cite book|last=New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners|title=Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the Fiscal Year Ending|date=1893|publisher=Weed, Parsons and Company|page=138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9cpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138 }}{{cite book|last=New York (State) Board of Railroad Commissioners|title=Report, Volume 2|date=1894|publisher=New York (State) Board of Railroad Commissioners|page=140|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6JIwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA140 }} and was also director of the Rochester Trust and Safe Deposit Company. In 1894, he was a delegate at large to the State constitutional convention.{{cite book|last=Peck|first=William Farley|title=History of Rochester and Monroe County, New York: From the Earliest Historic Times to the Beginning of 1907, Volume 1|date=1908|publisher=Pioneer publishing Company|page=209|isbn=978-1-02-230406-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvssAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209 }}{{cite book|last=New York (State). Constitutional Convention and|first=Choate, Joseph Hodges|title=Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York. 1894|date=1895|publisher=Argus Company, printers|page=11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZ5CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA11 }} Frank was State commissioner for the preservation of public parks and was a member of the board of directors of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad.{{cite web|url= http://www.sethkaller.com/13th-amendment/bio-sketch/|title= Biographical Sketches of all of the Senators and Congressmen who Voted for the 13th Amendment|publisher = Seth Keller|accessdate= March 14, 2014}}

He died in New York City at the Murry Hill Hotel on Monday, April 29, 1895, from a combination of inflammatory rheumatism and Bright's Disease. He is interred in Warsaw Cemetery in Warsaw, New York.{{cite web|url= http://warsawhistory.org/tours/tour2.html|title= The Abolitionist Tour|publisher = Warsaw History|accessdate= March 14, 2014}}{{cite book|last=Spencer|first=Thomas E.|title=Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated|date=1998|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|page=239|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLWao2lIGTEC&pg=PA239 |isbn=9780806348230}}

In 1867, Frank married Agnes McNair. The couple had two children, William Augustus and Mary Louise Frank. Their son died in infancy.{{cite book|last=Morrison|first=W. E.|title=History of Wyoming County, N.Y.: With Illustrations, Biographical Sketches, and Portraits of Some Pioneers and Prominent Residents|date=1880|publisher=W. E. Morrison|page=288|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K01QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA288 }}

Frank was the nephew of two other U.S. Representatives, William Patterson{{cite web|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000133|title=PATTERSON, William, (1789 - 1838)|publisher = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= March 14, 2014}} and George Washington Patterson.{{cite web|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000116|title=PATTERSON, George Washington, (1799 - 1879)|publisher = Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= March 14, 2014}}

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