OBITUARY: W. Frank Towne, Jackson County, Oregon 

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Jacksonville (Oregon) Post, Saturday, 4 September 1909, p. 1

ANOTHER GOOD MAN GONE

The ranks of the pioneers of Jackson county have again been invaded and one
of our best and most highly respected citizens has been taken. W. Frank
Towne, who left a few weeks ago for Portland to take treatment for an
affection of the throat after which he expected to joint his daughters,
Miss Mollie and Anna, for a trip to the fair, was stricken with heart
disease, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Nellie Grisez in Oregon
City, Thursday morning. The Misses Towne were en route from San Francisco
to Portland by water at the time of their father's sudden death. The
remains will be brought to Phoenix for interment. 

Mr. Towne was a New Englander and had been a resident of Jackson county for
nearly or quite half a century. He mined on the Applegate when he first
came to the country, afterward operating a ranch there. Later he engaged in
the mercantile business at Phoenix which he continued with much success
until a few years ago when he retired from active life on account of ill
health. Few men in the country held the confidences of their fellowmen as
did Frank Towne and his life was marked by probity of character and square
dealing which made him respected among all men.

Mr. Town was aged 78 years and his surviving family consists of one son in
addition to the three daughters named one of whom, Miss Mollie, is the
efficient deputy county clerk of Jackson county. - Tidings.