Frazee, William F.

Born: 1811-XX-XX New York

Died: 1891-02-19 Missouri

Flourished: 1850 to 1860 Hancock County, Illinois

William F. Frazee, farmer, lived in Muskingum County, Ohio, at the time of the 1840 census and had settled in Hancock County, Illinois, by 1850. In 1855 he was elected president of the Hancock County Agricultural Society. At the time of the 1860 census, Frazee owned real estate valued at $12,000 and possessed $2,250 worth of personal property. He ran unsuccessfully to represent Hancock County in the Illinois House of Representatives as a Buchanan Democrat in 1858 and served as Wythe Township supervisor that same year. Frazee was a Freemason and a founding member of Warsaw Lodge No. 257. He married Isabella Mahan in 1837 and the pair had children. Frazee was a resident of Granger, Missouri, at the time of his death.

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