Newton Co., IN Bio

Newton County, Jefferson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton,
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883. 

   FRANK A. COULOMBE, farmer, was born November 18, 1858, in Iroquois
County, Illinois, and is a son of Frank X. and Mary B. (Besse) 
Coulombe, both natives of Canada, whence the father came to Kankakee
County, Illinois, commenced blacksmithing, and married.  From 1854 to
1859, he kept shop at L'Erable, Illinois, thence going to Danville, 
Illinois.  His first wife died in 1859, by whom he had two children, 
Cornelia and Frank A.  The former married, April, 1877, Joseph Gerard
of St. Anne, Illinois.  They have one child, Walter.  Mr. Coulombe 
married in 1860 Miss Mary Durant, of Iroquois County, Illinois; they
had two children--Benjamin F. and Nellie E.  Mr. Coulombe was overseer
in a saw mill at Danville, Illinois, where he died in 1861, from an 
accident.
   Frank A., after his father's death, went to his grandfather, Louis
Besse, who lives north of Kankakee, and attended school, and later 
worked on the farm until 1873, when he worked at Harness-making for 
near three years, part of the time in Kentland. In 1876, he began 
to work on the farm for Mrs. O.M. West.  He has been there since,
working and overseeing the farm.  In 1875, he could not speak English.
He is a great reader, attentive student and now speaks fluently.  His
continuing so long in one position speaks well for his earnest work 
and good management.  He is now farming 100 acres with good prospects.
Mr. Coulombe is a Republican.


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