Genealogy research by Mark Humphrys.
Frank Cashel,
His parents
were from Alaska but they moved to Seattle for a time.
1959 profile
describes him as "originally of Seattle".
His parents came back to Alaska.
1959 profile
says he grew up in Douglas, Alaska.
He was educ Douglas High School.
He was educ at
University of Alaska
(at that time this means University of Alaska, Fairbanks).
See 1938 letter
addressed to "Frank E. Cashel, College, Alaska"
from "Margaret Lindsay"
of Juneau
(his
half-sister).
Letter now in Juneau-Douglas City Museum.
Catalog Number 2005.06.189.
He worked in engineering and construction.
He was a carpenter.
He served in US Army in WW2.
See draft card
p.1 and
p.2.
From here.
Registration date 22 Sept 1941.
He is 5 ft 11 in. Brown hair. Blue eyes.
Draft card
says he is then working at Siems Drake Puget Sound Co., Sitka.
His permanent
address is given as same address as
his father, P.O. Box 1195, Douglas. Telephone Douglas 142.
Other sources say he enlisted in US Army on June 22, 1944, as a Private.
Profile
says he served as "US Navy, Base Inspector".
Myrtle is "Mrs. Frank Cashel" at wedding of William James Hollywood in Nov 1944.
See item in
Daily Sitka Sentinel, 6 Nov 1944.
Frank is listed as a Corporal in
item
in
Daily Sitka Sentinel, June 4, 1945, p.3.
After the war he worked in fishing and construction.
They lived Sitka.
Profile
says he was
"Commercial Fisherman, Sitka; Construction Worker, Sitka; Proprietor, Plumbing Business, Sitka".
Director, Employment & Security Division, Department of Labor, Douglas.
Building Official, City & Borough of Juneau.
President/Member, Alaska Council of Carpenters.
Member of Alaska House of Representatives 1959-64.
Frank was a
member of the very first
Alaska House of Representatives
in the
1st Alaska State Legislature,
when
Alaska, formerly a territory, became a state in Jan 1959.
Frank stood in the primaries
in Aug 1958.
See item
in
Fairbanks News Miner,
Aug 9, 1958, p.6.
He was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives
for the
Sitka district
in Nov 1958.
The House sat from Jan 1959 to 1960.
See Dec 1959
note of thanks
from Frank and Myrtle
after his father's death.
Frank and Myrtle divorced in 1959-61.
Frank sat again for Sitka in the
2nd Alaska State Legislature
1961-62.
Frank sat again for Sitka in the
3rd Alaska State Legislature
1963-64.
Frank and Betty divorced 1979.
He later lived in Seattle, WA.
Frank E. Cashel is
listed
in 1985 at
317 Marion St # 435,
Seattle.
Went into a care home in Seattle.
Social security record
says at death he was living in zip code 98003,
Federal Way, Seattle.
Social security record
says he died Apr 1991.
Death index
says he
died 2 May 1991 in Federal Way, age 72 yrs.
His burial was organised
by the King County coroner.
Family not involved.
He had no biological children.
He was the last of the Cashels.
He was the last person to have the Cashel Y chromosome, that could say who
George Cashel's
father was.
But he died before genealogy DNA testing.
From
Fairbanks Daily News Miner,
Feb 4, 1959, p.2.
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