Frank Benjamin Benkelman

1882 - 1948  (66 years)

• Name	Frank Benjamin Benkelman  [1]
  Birth	28 Jun 1882	Denver, Denver County, Colorado   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Nov 1948	Denver, Denver County, Colorado   [1, 2]
  Notes	Pharmacist and had a pharmacy in Kansas City, Missouri before moving to West Coast. The Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, Volume 10, dated September 1, 1947, reported that "Frank Benkelman of Littleton, Colo. suffered a heart attack last Nov. and still is not able to be about." A website about the historic Captain Fletcher's Inn (ca. 1865) at the Navarro Beach area of the Navarro River Redwoods State Park states that on March 20, 1931, the Gilmores sold the Inn to Frank B. Benkelman (Mendocino County Official Records, Book 58, pp. 445-446 hereafter Official Records). Frank and his wife, Effie held the property until he died. It was a prosperous period for the Inn. Several local sources say that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard spent part of their "honeymoon" at the Inn. It is possible that they spent some time at the Inn, after their marriage on March 29, 1939, since Gable liked remote places and enjoyed salmon fishing. According to Lyn Tornabene in her book, Long Live the King (New York: 1976 p. 279), Gable and Lombard spent many days fishing the Rogue River. The Benkelmans also conveyed a portion of the original property to the state of California for purposes of building a highway on May 16, 1940.(Official Records, Bk. 142, p. 266). After her husband's death, Mrs. Benkelman married a second time to Robert Linn, the father of Geneva Linn (Mrs. Frank Ray). http://www.navarro-by-the-sea-center.org/history5.html Art Peck also shows him as married to a Dorothy Miller, however it appears that it must have been another Frank Benkelman who married Dorothy Miller, The following is a brief biography of Nellie Burget Miller, Poet Laureate of Colorado in 1923: "Nellie Burget grew up in Fayette, Iowa, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen and earning a B.S. from Upper Iowa University in 1894. She married Dr. Lucas A. Miller in 1894 and in 1908 they moved to Colorado Springs. Together they had three children: Dorothy, Arnold, and Muriel Imogene. Dorothy was an accomplished schoolteacher in Denver. DOROTHY [MILLER] AND HUSBAND FRANK BENKELMAN did not have children. Arnold Miller served in World War II and ran a medical practice in Denver. Arnold and his wife Mabel had three children." Census records, however, show that Nellie Miller's daughter Dorothy was born ca 1901 in Iowa, and at the time of the 1910 and 1920 federal census enumerations, she was still living at home with her parents in Colorado Springs, and was listed as single. By the time of the 1930 census, she was living in Haxtun, Phillips County, Colorado, and boarding in someone's else home. She was listed as single, and as a school teacher. At the same time that Dorothy Miller is still a single schoolgirl in Colorado Springs (1910), Frank Benjamin Benkelman can be found with his wife Effie in St. Louis, and Frank, Effie and John can be found again in 1930, in California, while Dorothy Miller was a single schoolteacher in Colorado. And as Frank Benjamin Benkelman was said to have remained married to Effie until his death, it could not have been the same Frank Benkelman that married Dorothy Miller. (Research): Census Listings: 1910 Census Missouri, Jackson County, Kansas City Enumerated 23 Apr 1910 SD 5 ED 38 Sheet 11A Stamped 11 501-132-226 Benkelman, Frank B Hd m W 28 M1 1 Co Germany German Germany German Eng Prescription Clerk Drug Benkelman, Effie Wf W FW 19 M1 1 0/0 Iowas Iowa Iowa 1920 Census Not located 1930 Census California, Santa Clara, San Jose Twp Enumerated 4 Apr 1930 ED 43-4 SD 10 Sheet 3A Stamped 50 George Steet 131-79-83 Benkelman, Frank B Head R $35 M W 48 M 27 Colo NY Germany Retired Benkelman, Effie F Wf F W 38 M 18 Mo Ind Iowa Benkelman, John F Son M W 10 S Mo Colo Mo
  Person ID	I1972	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	George Adam "Little George" Benkelman,   b. 7 Sep 1851, Lancaster, Erie County, New York d. 10 Feb 1929, Alhambra, Los Angeles County, California (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Maria Barbara Rommel,   b. 1 Jun 1852, B?nzwangen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany d. 18 May 1928, St. Francis, Cheyenne County, Kansas (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	6 Jan 1880	Denver, Denver County, Colorado   [1, 3]
  Family ID	F614	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Effie Fay Black,   b. 6 Aug 1887, Dallas County, Missouri d. 7 Oct 1974, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1910
  Children	1. John Frank Benkelman,   b. 16 Mar 1920, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri d. 17 Jul 1998, California (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F647	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Mar 2010

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 28 Jun 1882 - Denver, Denver County, Colorado Death - 21 Nov 1948 - Denver, Denver County, Colorado  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 12, September 5, 1949. (Reliability: 3). [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 133 (Reliability: 3).