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- Frank Homer Whitman, born at Baldwin City, Kan, June 20, 1870 ; married Florence, dau of William and Margaret Elliott Orr, at Moodna Mansion, N Y, Sept 21, 1896. He commenced his education in the Lyndon public schools, graduated from the High school in the Spring of 1888 and continued his studies at Washburn College, Topeka, Kan. He passed a very creditable and competitive examination for a United States cadetship from the Fourth Congressional District, and in the Spring of 1891 was appointed a cadet to the United States Military Academy at West Point, N Y, by Congressman Otis. He passed all subsequent examinations creditably and graduated on June 12, 1896. He is now at Fort Keogh, Montana, where his regiment is quartered (1897).
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