Windham

DeWITT, Frank Austin

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 170-171

Frank Austin DeWITT, banker, Newfane [Windham County, Vermont], was born 09 
February 1864 at Elyria [Lorain County], Ohio, son of Rollin Converse and 
Charlotte P. (BIRCHARD) DeWITT. Educated in the public schools of Elyria, 
and Eastman's Business College. Has been employed twenty-eight years in the 
Newfane Savings Bank, the first fourteen as assistant treasurer, and since 
then as treasurer. Republican; has been town treasurer since 1899; member of 
the school board 1905-1910; town auditor 1896-1899; moderator 1911; county 
auditor since 1898; represented Newfane in the Legislature 1910. 
Congregationalist. Past master Blazing Star Lodge No. 23, Free & Accepted 
Masons, of Townshend [Windham County]; member of Fort Dummer Chapter No. 12, 
Royal Arch Masons; Mt. Sinai Temple, Mystic Shrine; Newfane Lodge No. 72, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, chaplain for the past three years; past 
master Newfane Grange, treasurer of Grange five years; trustee and treasurer 
of the Moore Free Library Association since 1902. In 1898 he [Frank Austin 
DeWITT] married [Miss?] Lena WARE of Hillsboro [Montgomery County], Illinois; 
they have four children: DeWeese Ware, Ralph Burchard, Frank Austin Jr., and 
Charlotte.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly