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Former county recorder of Huntington county, now resident manager for the National
Fireproofing Company, and in many ways both past and present identified with the business,
civic and social life of Huntington county, Frank Sumner Bash is a man of varied
attainments and experience.
The only son of Rev. John B. Bash and Nancy (Zent) Bash, he was born at Roanoke, Indiana,
February 16,1859. His early years were spent on a farm near Roanoke, and in the meantime
he attended the public schools and the Classical Seminary in that village. While a
resident of Roanoke he engaged in farming and as a side-line conducted a piano and organ
business. To a great many people Mr. Bash is best known for his ability as a singer and
choir master, and as a promotor of musical activity. For a number of years he taught
music and assisted in organizing and for several years was president of the Roanoke
Beethoven Society, which had a membership of fifty, and for ten or more years was one of
the leading musical organizations of Northern Indiana. He arranged programs made up form
oratoros and other heavy and classical works from the old masters, and the influence of
the organization is still appreciated in the community. Mr. Bash's musical talent
brought him in contact with!
musical people all over the state and country, and for many years he has been at the
head of musical societies, choirs and quartets. While still a resident of Roanoke he sang
for years in what was known as the Emerson Male Quartette, an organization which toured
the country and filled engagements as far away as Pacific Coast cities. Soon after
locating in Huntington in 1888, he was made choir master of the First Methodist church, a
position he has filled ever since, for more than twenty years. The Temple Quartette, in
which he has sung for a number years, is well known in the city and throughout the state,
where engagements have been filled from year to year,
For a number of years, while still a resident of Roanoke, Mr. Bash edited a Roanoke page
in the Huntington Herald. This led to an offer from the publishing company to accept the
city editorship of the Daily and Weekly Herald, a place he continued to fill for a period
of nearly seventeen years. While in the journalistic field he was correspondent for
metropolitian newspapers as well as for the Associated Press. Voluntarily he left the
newspaper field when elected county recorder in the fall of 1904. Although the county in
those years generally showed the dominant parties to be of equal strength and mixed party
results as a rule, Mr. Bash's majority was 817. He served the county for four years
was was the first recorder to occupy an office in the new court house.
After four years of public office, Mr. Bash engaged in the real estate business, and also
acted as secretary-treasurer of the Huntington County Live Stock Insurance Association,
until retiring for the purpose of accepting the secretary-treasureship of the Imperishable
Silo Company of Huntington. Later, when this company formed an alliance with the National
Fire Proofing Company, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for a more extensive field in the sale
of silos, Mr. Bash was made resident manager, which place he still occupies. In addition
to the many activities of usefulness occupying the attention of Mr. Bash, he has looked
after the duties of a director in the bank of the Huntington Trust company, one of the
prosperous institutions of the city, which he helped to establish. He has an interest in
the Majestic Furnace & Foundry Company, of Huntington and devotes some time to his
farm lcated in Clear Creek township. For a number of years some of his time was given to
the City L!
ibrary. he was a member of the Library Board and did active duty on the book committee.
In religion Mr. Bash is a Methodist and a member of the board of trustees of the First
Methodist church in Huntington. Fraternally his affliations are with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
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