A representative farmer of the younger class is Frank E. States, who owns
and occupies the States homestead and farm on section 33, Miller township,
LaSalle county, Marseilles being his post-office address. He was born in
Grundy county, this state, December 31, 1863, and is descended from
ancestors who were among the early settlers of Pennsylvania. Emanuel States,
his father, was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1823, a son of
Abraham and Rebecca States. The mother of our subject was before her
marriage Miss Elenora Lysinger, and she was born September 9, 1828, in
Bedford county, Pennsylvania. Emanuel and Elenora States were the parents of
twelve children, nine of whom are living at this writing, — six sons and
three daughters. Their mother died April 9, 1876, and their father was
married a second time, to Mrs. Eliza Coats, of Lewis county, New York, who
died September 8, 1897, he surviving her till March 9, 1899, dying in the
seventy-sixth year of his age.
Frank E. States was a child two years of age when his parents moved from
Grundy county to LaSalle county, and here he was reared, on his father's
farm, dividing his boyhood days between working on the farm and attending
the public schools. He now owns the home farm, a valuable tract of one
hundred and sixty acres, on section 33 of Miller township. December 24,
1889, he was married to Miss Rhoda M. Drackley, who was born in this county
August 28, 1867, a daughter of William and Cornelia H. (Gaige) Drackley.
William Drackley was born in England May 22, 1835, and his wife in
Schenectady county, New York, January 17, 1837, and are the parents of four
children, — three sons and one daughter, — all of whom are living. Mrs.
States was reared on her father's farm near Seneca, LaSalle county,
receiving a common-school education, and prior to her marriage was engaged
in teaching school.
Politically Mr. States is a Republican and at present a member of the school
board of his district.
Extracted 17 Jul 2017 by Norma Hass from Biographical and Genealogical Record of LaSalle County, Illinois, published in 1900, volume 2, pages 485-486.
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