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Frank galloped to the front and soon was at the side of McKinley’s carriage, in the place of honor. When the parade ended, McKinley got out of the carriage and walked over to Frank. He patted the colt and said, “Mighty fine horse you have there, son. ” “Naturally,” he later explained, “I was elated. I was too young to vote in that election, but in 1900 I voted for McKinley. ”15 In 1904 Frank decided to give the West a try, and spent eighteen months in Colorado, but he discovered that for all Colorado’s beauty and appeal, it was a tough place to find a good-paying job.

Religion, work, and family were the center and almost the circumference of their existence. The religion was neither overbearing nor overpowering, rather peaceful and comforting, but it was always there—in speech, in dress, in mannerisms, in daily prayers and Bible readings. 1 Franklin was a jovial man, liked by everyone and adored by his family. He took Almira and the children on trips, to San Francisco and Yosemite. “Father loved music,” Hannah later told reporter Bela Kornitzer. “He sang in the church choir and played the organ.

But I do know that we dreaded far more than my father’s hand, her tongue. ” He recalled that when five-year-old Arthur was caught smoking a cigarette, he had pleaded, “Tell her to give me a spanking. Don’t let her talk to me. ”11 When Richard was five or six, he came home with his hands and mouth full of grapes. Hannah asked where he got them. He said he had picked them from the neighbor’s large grape arbor. “You go right in the house and get the pennies you’ve been saving,” Hannah ordered. ” Richard objected—pennies were hard to come by.