I saw this today while i was looking for another surname beginning with F. perhaps a relation to the Frank family you are looking for. Cathleen , click below. <A HREF="http://www.genexchange.com/bioreg2.cfm?letter=f&State=IA#Start">IAGenExchange - Biographies</A> Henry Frank, a farmer of Jefferson township, Shelby county, Iowa, is a native of the great German Empire, born on March 22, 1875, the son of Charles and Wilhelmina (Allery) Frank. The parents came to this country when the subject of the sketch was but seven years old. They found a location in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, where for some years the father worked out among the neighboring farmers by the day. In this way he got his start and finally was able to fit himself out for farming on his own account, renting land for that purpose. He succeeded well in his undertaking and later purchased two hundred and ninety-five acres in Shelby county, west of Irwin, on which he passed the remainder of his life in farming. His widow survived him and a few years after his death she became the wife of Thomas Gawley. There were originally ten children in the Frank family, two of whom died in early childhood. The remaining ones are Ernest, Frieda (Mrs. Nordby), Charles, Henry (who is fifth in the order of birth), Martha (Mrs. Greve), Mamie (Mrs. Gawley), August and John. During the years of his residence here, Charles Frank, father of the subject, made a name for himself as a man of industry, sobriety and strict integrity. He arrived in this county with very little in the way of worldly goods and in a comparatively few years he had gained for himself a competence. In the meantime he reared a promising family of sons and daughters.