A. B. FRAME, M. D., one of Piqua's skilled physicians and surgeons, who has been in active practice here since 1887, is also on honored veteran of the Civil War. He was born in 1840, in Athens County, Ohio, and he was primarily educated there and subsequently took a course at Marietta College. In 1862 Dr. Frame went into the army, having been mainly instrumental in raising Company 1, 116th O. Vol. Inf., of which he was made second lieutenant, five months later becoming first lieutenant. Eighteen month s after that he was commissioned captain and served in that capacity until the close of the war, participating in the whole Shenandoah Valley campaigns He was honorably discharged in the fall of 1865. After his military service was over he entered upon the study of medicine, and in 1868 was graduated with his degree from the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati. He located at Athens, Athens County, and continued to practice there until he came to Piqua in 1887, where, in addition to attending to a large general practice, he is retained as surgeon of, the C. H.and D. Railroad. He is affiliated with the Miami County and Ohio State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association.

In December, 1868, Dr. Frame was married to Miss Mary Elizabeth Morris, of Athens, Ohio, and they have one daughter, Mary, who is the wife of J. D. Kennedy, a well known attorney, of Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Frame is identified with the Masonic fraternity and belongs to the Loval Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic and to the Piqua Club.