Frank A. Tranchant
Frank A. Tranchant, vice-president and treasurer of the Tranchant & Finnell Company, merchant millers and proprietors of the Osborn Mills at Osborn, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Osborn since 1880. He was born in the city of Cincinnati on January 11, 1862, son of Jules J. and Amelia A. (Bates) Tranchant, the former of whom was born in the city of Paris, France, and was but a boy when he came to this county with his parents, the family locating at Cincinnati, where his father became engaged in the mercantile business. Jules J. Tranchant early became interested in the milling business and in 1880 bought the old Stafford mill at Osborn and continued as proprietor of the same until his death in 1886, after which his son, the subject of this sketch, and the latter's brother-in-law, M. L. Finnell, a biographical sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume, reorganized the business and have since been in charge. A sketch of old Osborn Mills is given in the biography of M. L. Finnell.
F. A. Tranchant completed his schooling in the high school at Avondale and in the Woodward high school at Cincinnati and when his father took charge of the old Osborn Mills at Osborn in 1880 became a valued assistant in the operation of the same and has since been actively connected with the mills. Mr. Tranchant is a Scottish Rite Mason, thirty-second degree, a charter member of the consistory at Dayton, charter member of Antioch Temple of Dayton, a member of the Dayton City Club, the Mystic Club and the Criterion Club of that city. He is a charter member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Osborn.
In 1884, at Louisville, Kentucky, F. A. Tranchant was united in marriage to Attie C. Dutiel, of that city, and to this union two children have been born, a son and a daughter, George Tranchant, who is engaged in the merchant tailoring and men's furnishing goods business at Dayton, and Louise E., wife of Philip E. Wuichet, who enlisted in the officers reserve corps of the new National Army after the declaration of war against Germany in the spring of 1917 and was stationed at Camp Sherman, at Chillicothe, Ohio, his wife meanwhile making her home with her parents at Osborn.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918