The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 755

FRANK L. TRAPP.

Frank L. Trapp, who owns ten acres of valuable land on the Tieton, has been
successfully engaged in the raising of hay and potatoes there since the spring
of 1912. His birth occurred in Dodge county. Minnesota, on the 30th of April,
1857, his parents being David and Margaret (Long) Trapp, both of whom were
natives of Indiana. They became pioneer settlers of Minnesota and in 1869
removed to Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, where they spent the remainder of their
lives, the father devoting his attention to general agricultural pursuits.

Frank L. Trapp acquired a public school education in his youth and was twelve
years of age when the family home was established in Cerro Gordo county, Iowa.
After putting aside his textbooks he became actively identified with farming
interests and also engaged in drilling wells throughout the section of the
state in which he resided. Subsequently he made his way to Palo Alto county,
Iowa, and later to Emmet county, that state, while his next removal took him to
Havana, North Dakota. In these various places his time and energies were given
to agriculture and success attended his undertakings. In 1905 he came west to
Washington and spent one year in Seattle, while for seven years he remained a
resident of Snohomish. He had purchased ten acres of land on the Tieton in 1910
and in the spring of 1912 took up his abode thereon, planting the tract to hay
and potatoes. He erected an attractive residence on the place and has been
continuously engaged in its cultivation to the present time with excellent
results. In 1918 he raised ninety-four one-hundred-pound sacks of potatoes from
a half acre of land. Progressive, enterprising and industrious, his efforts have
been rewarded with well merited success and he has become widely recognized as
one of the substantial and representative farmers of Yakima county.

On the 4th of April, 1883, Mr. Trapp was united in marriage to Miss Lucelia
Angell, a native of Lafayette county, Wisconsin, and a daughter of Henry and
Martha Piersol Angell, who were born in New York and Ohio respectively. They
removed to Wisconsin in pioneer times and later went to Iowa, while subsequently
they established their home in Kansas. Returning to Iowa, however, they remained
residents of the Hawkeye state until called to their final rest. Throughout his
active business career Mr. Angell devoted his attention to general agricultural
pursuits. Mr. and Mrs. Trapp became the parents of five children, as follows:
Ernest, who has passed away; Earl, who died leaving a wife and two sons: Iva;
Ray; and Mabel, who passed away at the age of fifteen years.

Mr. Trapp gives his political allegiance to the republican party where national
questions and issues are involved but at local elections casts an independent
ballot. Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America. His
life has ever been characterized by high and honorable principles and he has
therefore won the warm regard and esteem of those with whom he has been
associated.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.