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Frank A. Faxon was born
May 29, 1848, in Scituate, Massachusetts, coming of good old
Revolutionary stock, his grandfather serving directly under
Washington. His father, Asaph A. Faxon, immigrated to Lawrence,
Kas., in 1855, and two years later his wife and children joined
him. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public
schools, and then went to work in the drug store of B. W. Woodard
& Co. He rose step by step until he was finally admitted to
the firm, which, by reason of tremendous increase in business was
compelled to remove to Kansas City in 1878.
In 1897 the firm of
Woodward, Faxon & Co. gave way to the present one of Faxon,
Horton, & Gallagher. Despite the cares and demands of the
largest drug business in the West, Mr. Faxon has never failed to give
freely of his time to the public good, and few men have done more for
Kansas City. He has served as president of the Humane society,
has also been vice-president of the Bureau of Associated Charities,
and was the third president of the Commercial Club. He has also
served in the City Council, and has been a member of the Board of
Education since 1894, and has been a valuable aid in building up the
splendid library and great public school system.
He was married in 1871 to Miss Kate
Darlington, of Chester County, Pennsylvania and she died in 1884,
leaving three children, two sons and a daughter. In 1892 he
married Miss Francis Darlington, and they have one daughter, born in
1902.
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