Frank M. Sterrett, whose useful and prominent life has been spent in its entirety in the furtherance of the public good, was born in Pike township, Clark county, Ohio. Here he grew to manhood on the home farm, and was educated in the district schools, the Troy grammar school, and the Ohio Wesleyan University. At the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Independent Batallion of Ohio Infantry, Company D, and was mustered out of Company I, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 30, 1864, after a year of service, during which time he had served as commissary sergeant, of the cavalry service, and was detailed to the heavy artillery in front of Washington, and then the engineer corps, and assisted in laying out Arlington Heights, Va. On account of disease contracted while in the service, under the advice of physicians, he traveled through England and Ireland during the year 1865. Upon his return to the United States, he taught school in Ohio and Indiana for three years, then read law for two years, following which he was a commercial traveler for eight years. Throughout his life, Mr. Sterrett was a loyal supporter of Republican policies, and served as chairman of the county senatorial and congressional committees, and was a member of the State Central Republican Committee from 1877 to 1883. He was appointed postmaster of Troy by Presidents Hayes and Arthur. He held the interests of Troy always at heart, and served as president of the Troy Water Works; was chairman of the committee securing the east and west railroad through the city in 1881 and was prominently connected with the building of the model county seat courthouse of Ohio, at Troy in 1882. In 1885, he resigned as postmaster, and moved to St. Louis, Mo. Here also, he was prominent in politics, and was candidate for congressman from the eleventh St. Louis district, In 1890, and the twelfth district in 1894. He was president of the Missouri Commission to the Omaha International Exposition, and Missouri won more diplomas and medals than any other three states combined. From 1894 to 1904, he engaged in the real estate business in St. Louis, and was secretary of the finance committee of the St. Louis World's Fair, from March, 1901, to July, 1901. He returned to Troy, Miami county, in 1904. Mr. Sterrett holds an exceptional Grand Army record, having been post commander of various posts at different times, and was executive director of the Forty-first National Encampment held at Saratoga Springs, New York, 1906-7, and served in the same capacity at the Forty-third and Forty-fourth encampments held at Salt Lake City, and Atlantic City, respectively. He was adjutant general, 1900-1, under Rassieur, and was commander of the department of Missouri, 1903-4. He was a member of the executive committee of the National Council of Administration from 1895 to 1914, and is the present chairman of that committee. Mr. Sterrett's usefulness has entered many fields, and his career is one of which he may justly be proud. He was married September 19, 1872, to Miss Mabel Binkley, of Troy, Ohio.