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FRANK D. MARTIN, printer, sheriff and legislator, died at Davenport, Iowa, November 10, 1955; born at Atchison, Kansas, February 24, 1884; attended Guthrie, Oklahoma schools; became a semi-professional baseball player; married to Molly Paulson in Davenport in 1915, who died a year later; again married July 29, 1926, to Edna R. Schmidt in Macomb, Illinois; resided in Davenport since 1910, when he became an employee of the Quad City Lithograph Company, remaining with that company until 1917, when he became a member of the Davenport police force, and in 1919 was appointed a deputy in the Scott county sheriff's office, serving in that capacity until 1925, when he was elected county sheriff and continued in that office until 1937, when elected on the Republican ticket to the Iowa state senate, serving three terms 1938-1949; chairman of the senate committee on labor, resigned in year last named to become manager of the state liquor store at Davenport, which position he held at time of his death; a member of the Knights of Pythias and Masonic bodies; survived by his widow and two sons, John F. and William W. of Davenport, and one daughter, Edna D. Martin, New York, N. Y., four grandchildren and a brother, George Martin, Guthrie, Oklahoma.