Person:Frank Canaday (1)

Frank graduated from Harvard in 1914. He, too, joined the army and served as an artillery officer and interpreter. He later spent four years traveling in remote areas of China as a tobacco salesman. He was a member of the Explorers and Adventurers clubs and traveled extensively. He joined his older brother Ward in Toledo, Ohio, for a time as an assistant in Ward's advertising business and during this time served as the French consul in Toledo.

In 1932 he married New Zealand native Molly Morpeth, whom he encouraged in her own career as a painter. In 1946 they moved to New York City to pursue their individual and professional interests. In 1954 they moved to Woodstock, Vermont, where Molly died in 1971. The following year Frank married Mary Flagg Lee. He died in June, 1976. In his later years he devoted his life to the enhancements of painting and art galleries in his first wife's native New Zealand.

New Castle benefitted as well from the Canaday family. In the 1950's Ward, Miron, Frank, and Wilbur made the first large donation to the building of the First Christian Church as a memorial to their parents.

Their final resting place is South Mound Cemetery's most prominent feature, a neo-Greek temple atop the high mound, easily visible to passersby on Memorial Drive. Such an edifice, one thinks, must commemorate the life of a successful person. In this case, it commemorates the lives of four such persons, The Canaday brothers: Ward, Miron, Frank, and Wilbur. Although each found his personal success in a different sphere, they were remarkable in their generous sharing of the fruits of those successes. Their philanthropy resulted in donations of a college library, a university dormitory, and a wing of an art museum. In death, however, they returned to New Castle. (Taken from Henry County Historicalog, Spring, 2001)

1. ↑ Thomas D. Hamm & Mary Louise Reynolds. The Henry County Historicalog,. (Volume 29, Number 1, Spring 2001)
   Pages 12-17.
2. ↑ Vermont Marriage Records, 1909-2008
   Vermont State Archives and Records Administration; Montpelier, Vermont; Vermont Marriage Records, 1909-2008; User Box Number: PR-02116; Roll Number: S-31372; Archive Number: PR-1355-1356.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} United States. Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. (Washington, D.C.: National Archives Microfilm Publication M1509, 1987-1988)
   Registration State: Illinois; Registration County: Cook; Roll: 1503822; Draft Board: 43.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Ancestry.com. Web: Lucas County, Ohio, Blade Obituary Index, 1970-2008. (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).