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Frank was born in Queen City, Missouri, on 1 October 1887, and he grew up in nearby Green Top, a small agricultural community where almost everyone was white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant. Frank was the youngest — by fifteen years — of four boys. His father was a country schoolteacher, his mother a zealous Methodist, who instilled piety in her son. When Frank was twelve he became a boy evangelist, riding a circuit and giving as many as six sermons a day. In 1903 he was officially ordained a Methodist minister. In 1909 he came to the attention of the famous evangelist Billy Sunday, who hired him to assist in a summer crusade. That fall, however, Frank entered Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Despite a campus atmosphere that was more morally relaxed than his evangelical background, Frank fit in well, becoming a popular fraternity member and editing the Northwestern Magazine. He was...
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