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JERRY H. FRANKS, commissioner of public schools of Jasper county, Missouri, was born in Ogle county, Illinois, March 30, 1845, and there raised. His father, Charles Franks, was a native of England, who was born in 1793 in Nottinghamshire. His mother, Mary, nee Hart, was born near Hull, England, in 1801. His father came to America in 1822, settling in Canada, and engaged in gardening. He went to Ogle county, Illinois, in 1837 and engaged in farming. He died May 7, 1882, at the advanced age of eighty-nine. The subject of this sketch was reared in Ogle county, Illinois, and educated at Mt. Morris Seminary, Illinois, and Western College, Iowa. He was married in November, 1867, to Anna R. Ginter, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was born in 1852. Their children are Mamie, Thomas, Nettie, Charles, and Hume. Mrs. Franks is a member of the M. E. Church. Mr. Franks came to Iowa, Story county, in 1868, and engaged in teaching. He served two terms as county superintendent of public instruction in Iowa. Mr. Franks became a citizen of Jasper county, Missouri, in 1880, settling in the town of Carthage. He has been engaged for the most part in teaching in schools of the county. Subsequently, in the spring of 1883, he was elected commissioner of public schools of Jasper county. School Commissioner Franks has had some considerable experience in school work, and begins the responsible and arduous duties devolving upon him not an amateur, and we bespeak for him success and faithful performance of public obligations.