Frank W. Suerdieck. One of the recent acquisitions of the commercial life of Tippecanoe City is Frank W. Suerdieck, junior member of the grocery firm of Hand & Suerdieck. While a great part of the career of this successful young business man has been passed elsewhere, his success has been gained at his native place, for he was born at Tippecanoe City, March 3, 1892, a son of William J. and Katherine (Bowmester) Suerdieck. His father, who was a harness maker by trade, followed that vocation for many years, and in the evening of life, having accumulated a competence, went into comfortable and honorable retirement. There were five children in the family: Alma deceased; Agnes, Katherine, Frank W. and Carl. Frank W. Suerdieck was educated in the public schools of Tippecanoe City, following which he pursued a course at Jacobs Business College, Dayton. His first employment was with the Dayton & Troy Electric Railway Company, in the capacity of cashier of the freight department, a position which he held for four and one-half years. Following this, he took over the agency at Troy for three years, and for a like period served as bookkeeper for the Troy Ice company. April 15, 1920, Mr. Suerdieck returned to his native Tippecanoe City and bought a half interest in the grocery business which had been established some years before by P. J. Band, the concern at that time adopting the present business style of Hand & Suerdieck. This business has grown steadily and bids fair to develop into prominent proportions under the partners' capable management. Mr. Suerdieck, while a newcomer in the business, has had varied experiences and is thorough and practical in his methods, aims and ambitions. He is likewise energetic and enterprising and possessed of unique, ideas, and is putting the whole of his likeable personality and indefatigable industry into the advancement of the firm's interests. He is a member of the council of the Knights of Columbus, in which he has numerous friends, as he has also in business circles. His interest in civic affairs thus far has been that only of a good citizen, but he has supported worthy movements and during the war period contributed generously of his means to the furtherance of the enterprises made necessary by war's insatiable demands. Mr. Suerdieck was united in marriage with Emma M., daughter of John and Katherine Studer, of Dayton, Ohio, and to this union there have come two children: Loraine, who was born in 1915; and Vera, born in 1918.