Frank Augustine Weld

Background

Weld, Frank Augustine was born on December 10, 1858 in Skowhegan, Maine, United States. Son of George and Lucy Ann Robbins) Weld.

Education

Educated Bloomfield Academy, and Colby University, 1877-1880. Master of Arts, Colby University, 1899. Doctor of Laws, Fargo (North Dakota) College, 1914.

Career

Principal high school, Farmington, Minnesota, 1882-1883. Principal high school, and superintendent schools, Zumbrota, 1884-1889. Superintendent schools, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, 1889-1894, Stillwater, Minnesota, 1894-1899.

President State Teachers College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1899-December 31, 1919 (resigned).

Became president National School Digest Public Company and editor National School Digest, New York, 1920. Now editor School Executives Magazine (American Ednl.

Digest). Director educational work Minnesota State Penitentiary, 1895-1899.

Achievements

• Frank Augustine Weld has been listed as a noteworthy educator, editors by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member National Education Association, State Ednl. Association, Minnesota (president 1905-1906), American Interprofessional Institute, Nebraska Writers’ Guild, Kansas. Mason (32°, Shriner), Elk.

Club: Lincoln University.

Connections

Married Hattie East. Elwell, of Zumbrota, Minnesota, July 18, 1886. Children: Moselle Edna (Mistress O. J. Hagen), Lucy Alice (Mistress C. H. Pomeroy, deceased), Frank Elwell.

Father:

George Weld

Mother:

Lucy Ann Robbins) Weld

Spouse:

Hattie East. Elwell

child:

Frank Elwell Weld

child:

deceased) Weld

child:

Moselle Edna Weld (Mistress O. J. Hagen)

child:

Lucy Alice (Mistress C. H. Pomeroy Weld