The Arizona sentinel., 1903-12-02
The Passing of a Pioneer.

S:20 o'clock, will bring true sorrow and regret to many hearts: not alone in Yuma and Yuma county, nor yet in Arizona only, but wherever there be a pioneer of Arizona and of the county of Yuma there also is friend of the de- parted.
 Then passed to the great unknown, out over the last long trail one of the figures of the early history of Yuma county, a man who had much to do with early county and territorial his tory: prominent figure on the stage of life, when life was truly strenuous and weddings fell by the wayside.
 In the stirring and perilous times of '67; the days of the overland trail, of Indian raids and soldiers, when Yuma was but military post and supply sta tion and La Paz, now but memory. was the county seat and the central camp of an active gold placer mining district, Abe Frank came to La Paz to enter the employ of Chris Loganhei mer, then the leading merchant of the camp. In 1870 he formed a partner ship under the firm name of Frank & Bryant, purchasing and succeeding to | the established business of his erst- while employer. The new firm fore stalled the decadence of La PaZ and shifted the scene of their operations to Erhenburg in 1869, when that town was laid out by Jack Stwart, Morris Goldwater and W. W. Jones. There they erected and occupied the then largest mercantile structure in the county and gained an extensive and lucrative trade up to 1883, when Abe was quick to note the greater advant- ages and future possibilities of the Gateway City and, with the courage of bis convictions, he disposed of his Ehrenburg interests and removed to this city.
 Here for many years he took an ac- tive part in mercantile and political circles. In commercial life he had then gained an enviable standing, but, opposed to the maintenance of his posi- tion was his natural open handed gen. erosity. No man ever appealed to him for assistance in vain. The ever hope ful prospector and miner, rich in hopes but poor in substance, found in him a friend and packer; and that none of these were able to repay to him what he had loaned was the misfortune of both the giver and the recipients. Ever ready to respond to the needs of friend and stranger alike he lost, fnan- cially, but gained much in friendship and esteem.
 That his friends were legion was shown by the fact that he mOsts accept ably and faithfully filled many posi- tions of honor and trust. He repre- sented Yuma county in the territorial legislature, served as territorial priS- on commissioner, as mayor of Yuma and as probate judge, being succeeded in the latter office by the present in- cumhent when his physical disability prevented further active participation
 Several years ago form of paral lysis gained on his bodily powers to such an extent that about two years ago he be- came practically helpless. This, in late months, kept him d virtual pris- oner in his own home.
 h his day A be Frank was a power in Yuma county and in Arizona territory. His days were the days of John C. Fremont, the pathfinder, when that heroic figure held the gubernational chair; the days of Governor McCOr- mick, of Governor Tritle and of many others of note; when times were stirr- ing and men of action and great deeds held the boards. Worldly success, as measured by sordid gold, is certainly not all of life; there is the success of deeds and of lasting friendships. This he gained, and the heartfelt, kindly words of old time friends and compan- ions form no less monument to the departed than the costly, aggrandlzing mausoleums of the wealthy. The Reap CT has gathered man, firm friend, a good neighbor and loving and in- dulgent husband and father whose num- berless kind deeds will prove monu- ment indeed.
 His last request was that his mortal remains should be inferred in the con- secrated ground of his faith, Jewish cemetery, and in accordance with his wish the earthly casket, from which the soul of d man and gentleman had winged it's flight, was taken by a sor- rowing family on Tuesday night to Los Angles, to be there consigned to the kindly arms of mother earth under the ritual of his ancestral church.
 ABE FRANK. 1ETAT: G7.
 Born in Germany, Died in Yuma,
 Arizona, November 29 1903.
 A Man and Gentleman. What more
 can be said?