Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

FRANK H. SPRING, Park House, Beardstown; was born in Pike 
County, Ill., in 1856; son of Joseph M. and Hannah E. 
(Fisk) Spring. He began clerking in a drug store in Naples, 
Ill., in 1869; in 1870, he came to Beardstown with his 
parents, and in 1872 engaged as clerk in C. M. Spring's 
store, where he remained five years. He then kept a drug 
store for two years, then sold out, and became clerk for 
his father, in the Park House, and in February, 1882, 
bought a half interest in that house, which is now 
conducted under the management of Spring Bros. Joseph M. 
Spring, subject's father, was born in Cuyahoga County, O., 
March 4, 1821; he came to Pittsfield, Pike Co., Ill., in 
1836, where, after the death of his father, he took charge 
of the family, and worked the farm until 1860. He then ran 
a stage from Pittsfield to Naples, about four years; he 
engaged in the livery business about three years in Naples, 
Ill., and ran the old Naples House and the Strother House 
until 1870; he was also in the hotel business in 
Warrensburg, Mo., a short time. He came to Beardstown in 
August, 1870, leased the Park House, which he afterward 
bought in 1872, and conducted it for ten years, and after 
several changes in the management, sold it in February, 
1882, to Charles M. and Frank H. Spring. It is a first 
class hotel, and forty-five sleeping rooms, five sample 
rooms, three of which are on the first floor, and all 
modern conveniences. Joseph M. Spring married, March 2, 
1849, Hannah E. Fisk, of Maysville, Pike Co., Ill.; they 
have had six children: Sylvester Omar, Charles Merrick, 
Frank Howard, Lucy E., wife of H. G. Unland, of Beardstown, 
Elmer Ellsworth, and a daughter, deceased. Joseph M. 
Spring's father, Sylvester O. Spring, located in Ohio, in 
1819, and married Frances Merrick, of Pittsfield, Mass.; he 
died in 1839; she, about the year 1865; they had two sons 
and four daughters.

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