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Frank Raymond Tinsley

Frank Raymond Tinsley, the young and enterprising photographer of Jefferson, was born at Brookville, Iowa, in 1884. His father was a merchant, but is now enjoying a life of retirement at Jefferson, where he is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, George H. Thomas Post of Iowa, and of Jefferson Post in this county. The mother is a native of Berlin, Germany, and came to this country at a very early age with her parents. Their union has been blessed with the following: William; Etta, who married Joseph Miller, a horse dealer of Abingdon, Iowa; Charles, in the photography business in Corning, Iowa; Clara, the wife of David J. Eatinger, a carpenter and lumber dealer in Orient, Iowa; and Frank R.

The subject of our sketch received his educational advantages in the public school of Batavia, Iowa. As a lad he was much interested in the art of photography and spent his time out of school, as well as his summer vacations, learning the business. He removed to Corning, Iowa, in 1903 and came to Jefferson March 26, 1906, where the opportunity presented itself of buying out the gallery of S. O. Hoytland, which he is now conducting.

On September 26, 1906, occurred the marriage of Frank Raymond Tinsley and Carrie E. DeWitt, a native of Jefferson, where she was born in 1886. She is a daughter of Simon and Flora (Davis) DeWitt, her father being a cement contractor and manufacturer who is well known and much respected among a large circle of friends.

Although Mr. Tinsley is but twenty-three, he has attained more than most young men of his age and is one of Jefferson’s most enterprising and reliable citizens. He is careful and painstaking in his work, has a pleasant manner with his patrons and is building up a large and successful business. All of the modern styles and methods of photography are made use of at his gallery and he is well known as a member of the Photographers Association of this state. He is a stalwart republican and though he has not so far taken an active part in political measures, he is much interested in all the affairs of his party and of his country.

Transcribed from "Past and Present of Greene County, Iowa Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent and Leading Citizens and Illustrious Dead,"
by E. B. Stillman assisted by an Advisory Board consisting of Paul E. Stillman, Gillum S. Toliver,
Benjamin F. Osborn, Mahlon Head, P. A. Smith and Lee B. Kinsey, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907.

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