Note: . Wade. His father died when he was only 9 years old. The family story is he left home at age 14 with only a 10 cent postage stamp in his pocket. 1910 census records indicate he still lived at home at age 15. After leaving Frostburg at a very young age he worked as a baker. He worked for Raeutcamp Bakery in Sewickly, PA. While working at the bakery he became friends with a gentleman named Jock Sutherland. Jock was a cop on the beat in the area at the time and Frank served him donuts everyday. Jock later went on to become one of the great coaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Frank was engaged to be married to one of the Raeutcamp bakery daughters but he ended up leaving the bakery and PA and moved to Fairmont WV where he later met his wife Susan Catherine Troxell. When he first moved to Fairmont he lived at the YMCA and sold women's shoes for Hartley's Dept. Store. His brother HC Wade was the buyer of womens shoes at the time. While living at the YMCA he met a gentleman named Charlie Johnson who was dating Elizabeth Troxell (Susan Catherine's sister). Charlie introduced Frank and Susan. During his lunch hour Frank would meet Susan Catherine and go for a walk almost on a daily basis. They later married in August of 1922. Sometime later he became the buyer of china and housewares for Hartley's and also bought toys at Christmas time. He started his own business in 1938 called Wade's Gift Shop. He moved to a smaller shop the following year but the business failed for lack of traffic. Although his business was very good during the holidays and would almost sell out at Christmas he found the business to be too seasonal. In 1942 he moved his family to Akron OH and worked for Oneil's department store. He was an asst. buyer of men's furnishings at Oneil's and retired in 1961. One his many trademarks was the sailor straw hat he always wore every summer. His grandchildren remember him for some of the fun things he used to do like make his dog Buster sing, talk chinese (although it really wasn't chinese) and feed the squirrels that would come right up to his window sill in the dinning room on Stadelman Ave. He had a love for animals and his beer (with salt of course). Note: His real name is Charles Franklin, but later changed his name to Frank C
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