Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-11-06
Pioneer Resident of Baraboo, For
merly Mayor, Leading Citizen,
Dies at Home Thursday Night
HAD RESIDED in SAME
HOUSE FOR 60 YEARS
lmbued With the Principles OF De
mocracy-- an American Before
He Came to America

Former State senator Frank Avery,
at one time mayor Of Baraboo, ana
Reading citizen, died at his home az
SOC Second avenue on Thursday even
Eng about $50 o'clock. Some days
ago he was taken Ill with cold, did
not appear to rally and toward the
last the trouble bordered on pneu-
xnonia. A few hours before he died
he conversed freely, then passed into
an unconscious state. Within a week
superintendent A. C. Kingsford called
upon him and at the request OF the
patient read Tennyson's Crossing
the Bar" one or Mr.. Avery's fayor1te
poems. He would have been 80 on
the 18th of November, 1919
Born In England
MIR. Avery was born at Tenterden,
county of Kent, England, November
II, 1880, a son OF Thomas and Mary
(Boorman) Avery. Thomas Avery
came to Wisconsin in 1864 and died
in Baraboo on April Is 1885, aged 83
years. He was a native of Tenterdon,
where he carried on business as a
shoemaker, following the occupation
in which his father, William Avery,
had preceded him. Mrs. Mary Avery
was born in the county of Kent and
died there in 1888 Her parents came
to the United States several years
previous to that time, settling at
Rochester. New York, where the
father engaged in farming.
Frank Avery was the only son of
his parents He received common
school education and learned his faith
er's trade, which he followed in Eng
land and America until 1891.
Came to United States in 1853
Mr.. Avery came to the United States
in 1853 and worked successfully at
Oswego and Fort Brewerton, New
York. In 1855 he removed to James
vile, Wisconsin, and soon after to
Baraboo, this city since remaining his
home. Here he opened a shoe shop
and store and successfully carried on
that line Of business until 1891. For
Avery & Green but during the balance
of the period he was sole proprietor
After he left the shoe business in
1891 he engaged in insurance.
Always a Republican
He was always an active Republi
can, having supported John G. Free
mont in 1856 and every presidential
candidate since that time. He par
ticipated in many county and state
conventions and vas chairman of the
county committee for six years, a
period which included Blaine and
Logan campaign of 1884 For more
than a score of years he held some i'm
pOrtant public offices and frequently
filled several such positions simult
aneously.
President and Mayor of Baraboo
In 1876 he was elected president OF
the village of Baraboo and in 1898 be
came the mayor of the city. For ter
years he was member of the coun
ty board of supervisors. In 1887 he
was elected member of the state as
sembly and in 1889 to the senate. II
those organizations he took an &C
tive part-was chairman of the com
mittee on labor and manufacturers
was interested in prison reform work
and was opposed to measures givin,
cities special legislation For som,
years he was member of the Bara
boo Public library board and at tn,
time of his death was a member o
the jury commission of Sauk county.
May 30 1859, he was welded t
Emily Andrus, daughter of Edwin
and Susan (Gillette) Andrus, who wa
born near Lorraine, Ohio, and died a
Baraboo, April II, 1895, aged s
years. She had marked literary abb
ity and contributed to some of tn
leading periodicals of the country
She expressed her ideas in both pros
and verse.
Julia, the only daughter of Mr.. an
Mrs. Avery, departed this life O
March 18, 1897, at the age of 33 year.
She was highly accomplished and sci
we'd as secretary to the late Governo
w. Hoard. She was afterward
stenographer for the superintender
of schools of Milwaukee.
Mr.. Avery was a Unitarian and whe
the organization in Baraboo was a.
tive, gave to it's support. Since 18E
he has been identified with the Masol
1c fraternity.
On May 4, 1899, he married Mis