FRANK E. AYERS Born in Chickasaw county April 15, 1859. He was educated at Decorah, Iowa, and at the Breckenridge Institute. He left home at fourteen years of age to begin his business career. He has been a business man and a quasi public official from boyhood. He entered upon a commercial career in Chickasaw county, his native heath, and at twenty-six was made deputy treasurer of the county, an office which he filled for two years. Removing to Lawler in 1887, he entered the lumber business, and that has been his occupation continuously until the present time. He came to Iowa City in 1903. While a resident of Lawler he was a member of the city council part of the time being mayor of the city. He is also a member of the 28th General Assembly of Iowa for two years, and was Vice president and a director of the Citizens Loan & Trust Company, of Iowa City, but retired from the duties of this last-named position on account of pressure of business. In 1887 he was married to Miss Alice F. Sheldon, and two children have blessed them. Mr. Ayers is a member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, and the Modern Woodmen of America.