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Frawley, Thomas Francis (1851 - 1902) : Thomas F. Frawley Steel Engraved Portrait with Facsimile Signature

C. N. Caspar Company

Circa 1900, sized 6 x 9.5 inches, on heavy plate paper, generally very clean and bright. The author, b. March 6, 1851, near Troy, New York, was an educator and politician of Wisconsin. His parents, Thomas and Honora (Hogan) Frawley, were natives of Ireland. A short time after Frawley's birth, the family moved to Wisconsin and settled upon a farm in the town of Vermont, Kane County. Frawley attended the University of Wisconsin and graduated in 1875. For five years after his graduation Frawley served as principal of the high school in Eau Claire. In his early law career, Frawley conducted the defence for many important criminal cases, among those being best known may be mentioned that growing out of the lynching of Olson in Trempealeau County in 1889. In 1888 he served as a delegate to the National Democratic Convention held in St. Louis. In 1892, upon the delivery of his telling speech before the state convention, the old ticket was nominated for re-election. For many years prior to 1896, Frawley was a member of the Democratic State Central Committee. He was financially and professionally interested in several corporations, being a stockholder and director of the Chippewa Valley Bank, and stockholder and attorney for the Eau Claire Light & Power Company, in addition to holding similar relations to other corporations. On the sixth day of August, 1877, Mr. Frawley was married to Lydia A. Lawler, daughter of Joseph Lawler, an early settler of Eau Claire. They had one son, Thomas F. Frawley, Jr.. Print. Book Condition: VG. Binding: No Binding

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