1925 Biography - L Frizzell
L. H. Frizzell was a native of this county and born in Burnside Township, 1852. He was reared and educated in that community, and on arriving at the age of manhood, set out for himself on a farm in Grantsburg township, where he resided until 1886, when he was elected sheriff of the county. He was interested in the drug business with T. B. Powell for several years and was elected to the Legislature of this state as a Democrate in 1900. After this service expired he lived for a short time in Metropolis, but returned to Vienna where he spent the rest of his life. He married Sidney, daughter of S. D. Poor, and their children are Arista (2), widow of Ernest Moore, who resides with her sons Len Wallen and Ernest Jr. at Caruthersville, Mo. Mattie (2) wife of Thomas Johnson, a business man of Cairo, Ill. They have one son, Dan. Lewis (2) is a druggist and conducts a business at Mounds, Ill. Herman (2) the youngest is a graduate of the Bloomington Law school and is practicing his profession in East St. Louis. He married Mary Hooker of Vienna and they have Lewis (3).
Extracted 06 Feb 2017 by Norma Hass from 1925 A History of Johnson County, Illinois, by Mrs. P. T. Chapman, page 378.
