Franklin B. Francis was born in Springport, Cayuga county, Dec. 4, 1826. He is a son of Sylvester and Love (West) Francis, of Cayuga county. ... Franklin B. was brought up on his father’s farm, and attended the common schools of his town until he was thirteen years of age, when he was placed in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, where he remained about five years, attending the spring, summer and fall terms, and teaching a district school during the winter months. In 1830, he left Lima, and from that time till 1850 he taught school in the different towns, when at the latter date he was appointed professor of mathematics and natural science in Temple Hill Academy at Genesee. His health failing, he was obliged to leave Genesee, and accordingly located on a farm in the town of Lima, where he has lived since.
April 28, 1853, he was united in marriage with Mariette E., only daughter of Isaiah and Delina (Kinney) Terry, of Lima. ...
... Franklin B. our subject, has for the past thirty years followed engineering and surveying. In 1860 he was elected school commissioner for the northern district of the county and served three years,was reelected in 1866 and served another three years. In politics he is a staunch Republican. In 1870 and ‘71, he was corresponding agent at Buffalo for the publishing house of Harper & Bros. In religious sentiment he is a Presbyterian, and with his wife has been a member of that church in Lima about fifteen years.
There have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis seven children as follows :
- George C. born Feb. 23, 1854, died Feb. 18, 1876;
- Frank Terry, born April 14, 1856, died Aug. 14, 1860;
- Della Delina, born April 10, 1860, died Sept 23, 1864;
- Alta Love, born May 29, 1867, died Jan. 23, 1868;
- Etta Deliria, born Aug. 11, 1869;
- Stella H. born Dec. 8, 1872; and
- Delbert Isaiah born April, 11, 1878.
By adoption May 29, 1867, they also have one daughter, Minnie Gage who was born Dec. 26, 1863.
