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Rev. Frank Mikels  Rev.
Frank Mikels pursued his early education in the public schools of
Indiana and continued his literary course in Thornton Academy.
Subsequently he studied theology at the Northwestern University at
Evanston, Illinois, a Methodist school, and was a graduate of the
conference class. Coming to the Southwest, he directed his labors for
the benefit of the church and his fellow-men until a very recent date,
but in September 1903 [he] retired from active work of the ministry,
and in June 1904 purchased his present farm and home. At the time of the Civil War, Mr. Mikels, responding to the call of the Union, enlisted on the 15th of October, 1861, in the Fortieth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers and became a private in Company K, with which he served for a little more than three years. He was in a number of hotly contested engagements and was injured in the charge of Kennesaw Mountain, sustaining a slight scalp wound. It was following his military service that he entered the ministry, devoting a number of years to the active work of the church. [Source: B. B. Paddock, History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1906), Vol. I, pp. 629-630.]  Military Veterans Susan Hawkins © 2024 |