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Note: siness College, Poughkeepsie, NY. After working for a time at the carpenter's trade, he inaugurated his mercantile career in a grocery store at Newburyport, MA. From that city he went to Boston, and continued in the same line of trade at a store in the Brighton district. In 1879 he entered the sole leather trade with his brother Rufus E. Hilliard, and some three years later he engaged in the same business for himself in Lynn. From 1883 to 1888 he was associated with Messrs. Rufus, Milo and Michael Kistler as Hilliard, Kistler & Company, having salesrooms in Lynn and New York, and a tannery at Great Bend, PA. After the dissolution of that firm he conducted business alone in Lynn until 1895, when he was admitted as a partner Mr. Albert R. Merrill, with whom he was associated under the firm name of Hilliard & Merrill. Frank was a member of various local Masonic bodies, including Mount Carmel Lodge, F. & A.M.; Sutton Chapter, R.A.M.; Zebulon Council, R. & S.M.; and Olivet Commandery Knights Templar, all of Lynn.
Note: Frank was educated in the Kensington public schools and at Eastman's Bu
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