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From History of Douglas and Grant Counties, Minnesota
Anonymous author (Indianapolis : B.F. Bowen & Co., 1916)
Page 629-631
Frank H. Heald, register of deeds in and for Grant county and one of the best-known men in public life in this section of the state, is a native son of Grant county and has lived there all his life. He was born on a pioneer farm in Pomme de Terre township, January 17, 1872, son of Aaron and Margaret H. (Young) Heald, the former a native of the state of Maine and the latter of Scotland, pioneers in Grant county, where their last days were spent.
Aaron Heald was the son of Timothy and Elizabeth (Martin) Heald, members of old families in New England, the former tracing his descent back to the days of the Pilgrims. They came West early in the fifties and located at Minneapolis, where they remained until about 1866, when they came over into this part of the state and homesteaded a tract of land at "The Ford", the ford of the Pomme de Terre river, where Timothy Heald opened a tavern, one of the two first hostelries between Alexandria and Fergus Falls, the other having been at the old stockade at Alexandria. There they spent the remainder of their lives, honored and useful pioneers. Aaron Heald was little more than a lad when he came into the great Northwest with his parents and he grew to manhood at Minneapolis, where he married Margaret H. Young, who was born in Scotland and who, with her widowed mother, Mrs. Agnes Graham Young, had emigrated to Canada about 1854, later coming over into Minnesota and settling in the near vicinity of Minneapolis. A year or two after his parents had located at the ford of the Pomme de Terre, Aaron Heald and his wife also came over into this part of the state, settling on a homestead in Pomme de Tere township, Grant county, and there they spent the remainder of their lives. It was about the year 1868 that Aaron Heald settled out here and he and his wife thus took their places among the earliest settlers of this section, becoming influential and useful members of the pioneer community. There Aaron Heald died in 1892, and his widow died in the spring of 1914. They were the parents of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being Agnes Esther, Elizabeth L., Walter E., George P., Margaret Christina and Nellie Louisa.
Frank H. Heald was reared on the paternal farm in Pomme de Terre township, receiving his schooling in the early schools of that neighborhood and proving a valuable assistant to his father in the work of developing and improving the homestead until he was sixteen years of age, when he entered the harness shop of Axel Husley at Elbow Lake and learned the harness-making trade. When about eighteen years of age he began teaching school and for eleven years spent his winters as a teacher in the public schools of his home county, meanwhile extending his acquaintance throughout the county and giving at all times his earnest attention to local civic affairs, becoming one of the best-known young men in the county. In 1902 he was made the nominee of his party for register of deeds in and for Grant county and was elected to that important office, in the administration of the affairs of which he demonstrated such capacity that he has been continuously re-elected to that office and is still serving, one of the most popular and painstaking officials about the court house at Elbow Lake.
In 1906 Frank H. Heald was united in marriage to Alice M. Marfell, who was born in Cardiff, Wales, and who had come to this country with her parents, and to this union three children have been born, Alice Lillie, Donovan Frederick and Agnes Sophia. The Healds have a very pleasant home at Elbow Lake and take a proper interest in the various social activities of their home town, helpful in all good works thereabout. Mr. Heald is a member of the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias, of the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Court of Honor and in the affairs of these several organizations takes a warm interest.
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