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FRANK R. NOE
Vol. 5, p. 1866

Frank R. Noe came to Eastern Oklahoma some months after statehood,
and by his activity as a merchant and citizen made himself a very
popular and useful factor in Seminole County. Governor Cruce selected
him for a local appointment, and he is now filling the office of
county treasurer, and is giving the people a systematic and thorough
administration of the fiscal affairs of the county government.

Ancestrally Mr. Noe descends from a French line, but they have been
identified with America for many generations. Frank R. Noe was born
at Pineville, Arkansas, October 19, 1880, a son of Rev. Frank R. and
Serena (MATTHEWS) Noe. His father was a native of Springfield,
Missouri, and his mother of Arkansas. Rev. Frank R. Noe served all
through the Civil war as a corporal in the Confederate Army. After
that his active career was spent as a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South and he was connected with the White River
Conference in Arkansas. He died in 1906 at the age of sixty, highly
honored and respected. The mother of Frank R. Noe died when he was
two years of age at the age of thirty-five, and he was one of four
sons and two daughters. The father married again and had three sons
and one daughter by the second marriage.

Frank R. Noe lived with his father until he was twenty years of age,
and spent most of his early youth in school. At the age of twenty he
went to Memphis, Tennessee, kept a set of books for the William R.
MOORE wholesale dry goods house for eight years, and in 1907 went out
to California, participating in the activities of the mining district
for a time, and spending one year in Los Angeles. From there he came
to Seminole county, Oklahoma, and for some time was associated in
general merchandising business with his brother T. D. Noe, under the
firm name of Noe Brothers. He is still a merchant and one of the
prospering men of this section.

In 1912 Governor Cruce appointed him county assessor of Seminole
County, and he was elected to that office in 1913. In 1914 he was
chosen county treasurer, and most of his time is now given to the
duties of that office.

He has been a democrat since casting his first vote, is affiliated
with the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America, and
is loyal to the church of his father, the Methodist Episcopal South.

On January 1, 1906, Mr. Noe married Miss Cecil PRICE of Beebe,
Arkansas. She died in 1912, and of her two children, Carroll, seven
years old, is with his Grandmother Price at Little Rock, Arkansas,
while Mildred died in infancy. In December 1914, at Springfield,
Missouri, Mr. Noe married Phyllis DUNCAN.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, October 5, 2000.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).