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FRANK EMANUEL
Vol. 3, p. 1150-1151

A particular interest always attaches to those careers which
exemplify the quality of self-help. An example is found in the person
of Frank Emanuel, who on March 3, 1915, was appointed by President
Wilson as postmaster of Sulphur. Mr. Emanuel has not only been able
to help himself struggle through the world, but as a boy he assumed
many of the burdens and responsibilities in connection with the
keeping of a family of younger children, and though he is now only
twenty-eight years of age he has been a hard working man ever since
he was twelve.

He was born in Cherokee County, Texas, November 22 1887, a son of C.
and Mary (GREEN) Emanuel. His grandfather, Simon Emanuel, was a
native of Russia, came to America when a young man not many years
after the Revolutionary war, and located on the Pedee River in
Marlborough County, South Carolina. He became successful as a
merchant, planter and slave owner, and he died at Bennettsville,
South Carolina, when about eighty-seven years of age. C. Emanuel, his
son, was born in South Carolina in 1842, grew up in that state, and
throughout the period of the War Between the States was a Confederate
soldier with a South Carolina regiment. In the battle of Brandy
Station he was twice wounded, once through the hip and once through
the shoulder, and in another battle of the war he was again wounded.
Several years after the close of the war in 1870 he moved to Cherokee
County, Texas, where the rest of his life was spent as a merchant. He
died in 1899 while on a sojourn for his health at Hot Springs,
Arkansas. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and though he
had served with the Confederate army was a republican in politics,
and served five years as postmaster of Jacksonville, Texas, under
appointment from President McKinley. His first wife was Mary BALLEW
of Cherokee County, Texas. Her only daughter Amy is now deceased, and
the only son, a half brother of the Sulphur postmaster is Charles B.
Emanuel, who has gained distinction as an Oklahoma lawyer, was a
member of the second and third Oklahoma State Legislatures, being
speaker pro tem in the Third Legislature, has also served as
assistant county attorney, as mayor of Sulphur, and is a very
prominent Oklahoma democrat. After the death of his first wife C.
Emanuel married Mary C. GREEN, who was born in Camden, Arkansas, in
1859, and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Her children are;
Frank; Mrs. Shirley ZELLE, wife of a broker at Hollywood, California;
Esther, who married George GRAY, who is employed as an electrician
with the Western Union Telegraph Company at Los Angeles, California;
Fannie, whose husband is wire chief for the Rocky Mountain Telephone
Company, with residence at Pasadena, California; William McKinley who
is also connected with the Rocky Mountain Telephone Company with
residence at Pasadena; and Flora, who is unmarried and lives with her
mother.

Frank Emanuel was about twelve years of age when his father died. Up
to that time he had received the advantages of the public schools in
Cherokee County, Texas. As he was the oldest of his mother's
children, and there were five young brothers and sisters who by their
father's death were left with very slender resources, he at once
contributed his own labor to the family, and worked for several years
at selling papers in the streets and in shining shoes. At the age of
sixteen he was taken into the railroad station at Jacksonville,
Texas, as porter, and while working at that for thirteen months
learned telegraphy and was then given a position as telegraph
operator by the Cotton Belt Railroad Company. At the end of three
years the confining work made inroads upon his health which caused
him to resign, and he then went west to New Mexico and for a year was
secretary for J. J. SIMMONS, general manager of the El Paso and
Southwestern Railway Company, and another year was spent with the
Copper Queen Mining company. After returning East he was for three
months in the superintendent office of the Southern Pacific Railroad
at Houston, Texas and for two years was in the railroad
superintendent's office at Dallas.

When Mr. Emanuel came to Sulphur, Oklahoma in 1909 he helped
reorganize the Chamber of Commerce of which he was made secretary,
and for two years he handled most of the business of the Chamber. At
the same time he had an office for the handling of general loans and
insurance, and he continued actively in that line of business until
appointed postmaster in 1915. He has prospered, owns his residence at
Sulphur, and has a farm of 210 acres eight miles south of the town.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Sulphur Chamber of
Commerce, is a democrat, a member of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church, and is affiliated with Sulphur Lodge No. 353, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, with Sulphur Lodge of Knights of the Pythias,
and with Sulphur Camp of the Woodmen of the world.

In 1910 at Sulphur he married Miss Kate MELSON. Her father is J. A.
Melson, a cotton merchant at Oklahoma City. One child was born to
their marriage, Jack, on July 9, 1911.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Donald E. Conley, 28 October 1998.