FRANK P. COLCORD, farmer; P. O. Cane Ridge. This interesting and
gentlemanly proprietor of Burr Oak farm, is a son of C. B. Colcord and
Louisa Metcalf, who was a niece of the honored George Metcalf. The
father of our subject settled in 1813 at Middletown, this county, from
the State of New Hampshire, he being then about twenty-seven years of age,
and soon after engaged in business at that place with an older brother
who accompanied him to his new settlement. Their spirit of business
adventure, however, was not to be satisfied in a village traffic, but they
engaged in extensive speculation which proved remunerative, C. G. Colcord
being the first man who ever took a drove of mules to New Orleans by land
from Bourbon County; he was married to Miss Metcalf in 1824, and by that
union were born six children, only two of whom grew to maturity; viz:
William R., born Nov. 26, 1827; married in the vicinity of Middletown,
now residing in Wachita, [sic] Ka., where he is extensively engaged in the
stock business. Our subject was born Sept. 17, 1829; received a liberal
education, attending the Western Military Institute in 1849 and '50, then
located at Middletown; one of his preceptors and intimate friends being
the Honorable James G. Blaine, Secretary of State. Mr. Colcord is an
enterprising, thrifty farmer, with 432 acres of choice land, about eight
miles from Paris, which he has well stocked, and conducts in a
successful manner. He was never married, but enjoys an independent
life with his pleasant surroundings.
