Biography of Frank L. Kiplinger, page 129.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. 
McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Frank L. Kiplinger is president and manager of the Knisely Dry Goods 
Company of Butler, one of the oldest business establishments of DeKalb 
County.  The Knisely brothers were in business at Butler beginning nearly 
fifty years ago. The present firm is an incorporation , with Mr. Kiplinger 
its executive head and H. B. Miller, secretary and treasurer, and the 
directors are Mr. Kiplinger, H.B. and E.C. Miller and Mrs. Kiplinger.
   Mr. Kiplinger was born in Ashland County, Ohio, July 29, 1859.  He has 
been a merchant nearly all his life. His father was a county merchant in 
Ohio, and the son when not in the village schools was working in his 
father’s store.  At the age of twenty-one he went out to Kansas and had a 
varied mercantile experience in that state for several years.  On coming 
to Indiana he was a clerk in the employ of Knisely Brothers at Butler for 
ten years. After that he was a traveling dry goods salesman over Indiana 
Territory, representing a Cleveland house for ten years.  He then returned 
to Butler and bought an interest in and took the management of the old 
business of Knisely Brothers.
   Mr. Kiplinger married Della Miller, of Waterloo, Indiana, a graduate of 
the high school of that city.  Mrs. Kiplinger has been prominent in local 
affairs at Butler and was one of those instrumental in serving the public 
library, and for the past twelve years has served a secretary of the 
Library Board.  Mr. and Mrs. Kiplinger are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church and he is a trustee.  He is affiliated with Forest Lodge 
No. 259, Free and Accepted Masons, with the Royal Arch Chapter and Council, 
the Apollo Commandery of Knights Templar at Kendallville, was a Shriner and 
was a member of the Scottish Rite class of 1919.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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