FRANK D. THOMSEN.
The Kimballton Drug Company, of Kimballton, Iowa, of which Frank D. Thomsen and Thomas Jorgensen are the proprietors, is one of the leading mercantile institutions of this section of Audubon county. In the latter part of 1912 this store was purchased by Mr. Thomsen, Mr. Jorgensen and Chris Larsen. Ten months later, however, Mr. Larsen sold out his interest, and the store is now operated by two of the original owners. The company carries a large and complete stock of drugs, paints, wall paper, school books, cigars and tobacco, and has an enormous trade in this section, a trade which is due somewhat to the splendid personal attainments of Mr. Thomsen, who is a fine man to meet, clean in his morals, up-to-date in his business methods, and who for all of these reasons has made many warm friends since coming to this city. Mr. Thomsen has also just begun a term as postmaster of this town.
Frank D. Thomsen, postmaster and druggist of Kimballton, Iowa, was born, March 28, 1889, the son of Christian and Hanna Andersen, natives of Denmark, who came to America in 1882, and settled at Rockville, Nebraska, where the father took up a homestead, which he later lost. Subsequently, he purchased a farm, improved it, and operated it until his death, May 11, 1904, at the age of seventy-two years. His beloved wife who survived him is now living at Rockville, Nebraska. An ardent Democrat, he was also a member of the Lutheran church. He and his wife had twelve children, nine of whom are now living, as follow: Thomas, a farmer of Rockville, Nebraska; Anders, a farmer of Loop City, Nebraska; Nels, a ranchman of Big Creek, Nebraska; Mary, who married Frank Thomsen, at Big Creek, Nebraska; Andrew, of Reno, Nevada, and foreman of the Southern Pacific railroad; Chris Jens, a farmer of Loop City, Nebraska; Elva, who married Walter Lange, of Cherry county, Nebraska; and Frank D., the youngest and the subject of this sketch.
Educated in the common schools of Nebraska, Mr. Thomsen spent three years at the Kearney, Nebraska, Normal School, and two years at Creighton College of Pharmacv at Omaha, graduating from this institution with the class of 1912. In that year he located at Elkhorn, Iowa, where he worked for nine months for the Larsen Drug Company. At the end of this period he came to Kimballton, and in association with Chris Larsen and Thomas Jorgensen, as heretofore noted, purchased the drug store now operated under the name of the Kimballton Drug Company.
Earlier in his life Mr. Thomsen worked for one year as a clerk for the Southern Pacific Railroad at Sparks, Nevada. A Democrat in politics, he has always taken an active interest in this party's welfare, and having been appointed postmaster at Kimballton, Iowa, took that office, January 1, 1915. He is a member of the Kimballton band and plays alto, also a member of the Kimballton volunteer fire department, and formerly was assistant chief.
A man of most gracious and pleasing personality and, unless present signs are wrong, Frank D. Thomsen will in time become one of the most influential business men of Audubon county. He is already well started in life, and with the momentum in business which he already has acquired should achieve even new and greater success.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 429-430.
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