Frank A. Flower
Frank Abial Flower was an editor at various newspapers, an author, and government official. He wrote many history books, several related to Wisconsin and leading Republicans of his era.
Early life
Frank A. Flowers was born May 11, 1854, in Cottage in Cattaraugus County, New York.Career
Flower's journalism career included being a traveling correspondent for Fredonia, New York Advertiser. He was the joint editor of the Milwaukee Evening Chronicle from September to December 1880 and the editor of the Superior Leader from 1891 to 1895.Flower was the city statistician for Superior, Wisconsin. He worked for the State of Wisconsin as the State Labor Statistician and later became the Chief Statistician. From 1883 to 1887, he was the first Wisconsin Labor Commissioner. In 1899, he was appointed Chief of the Agricultural Division of the Census.
In 1895, Flower was the Executive Secretary for the International Deep Waterways Association, championing the improvement of cargo ship traffic from the Great Lakes with New York City. Flower said, "New-York may not want us to come down to tidewater with our unbroken cargoes of grain and merchandise, but New-York does not always know what is best for herself."