Lorenz Valentine Frank

b. 13 September 1881, d. 16 July 1971
  • Lorenz Valentine Frank was born on 13 September 1881 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York.
  • He was known as Lawrence.
  • He was baptized/christened on 5 August 1883 at in the house of Cornelius Frank in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, by August Oscar Gallenkamp, pastor at Suspension Bridge, according to the Zion church register. sponsored by Johannes Kämmerer and Anna Elisabetha Dexheimer.
  • A photographic portrait was made of Cornelius and Phoebe Frank, with John and Lawrence, about 1885, likely shortly before they left New York.
  • Lorenz Valentine Frank appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Devils Lake, Ramsey County, North Dakota, as a waiter in a hotel operated by John O. Baughman.
  • He was a hotel waiter, according to the 1900 census.
  • He married Helga Adele Anderson, daughter of John E. Anderson and Ekatrina (?), circa 1916.
  • Lorenz Valentine Frank registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Los Angeles County, California, while living with his wife Helga and one child at 610 South Soto Street in Los Angeles, and employed there doing hotel laundry work.
  • Helga Adele Anderson and Lorenz Valentine Frank appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, at 2242 Inez Street enumerated in the household of Helga's father John E. Anderson.. Other members of the household included Connie Helga Frank.
  • He was an actor in moving pictures, according to the 1920 census.
  • Lorenz Valentine Frank and Helga Adele Anderson appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, at 2240 Inez Street enumerated in the household of Helga's father John E. Anderson.. Other members of the household included Connie Helga Frank.
  • He was proprietor of a laundry, according to the 1930 census.
  • Lorenz Valentine Frank registered for the draft on 26 April 1942 in California while living at 2242 Inez Street in Los Angeles, and self-employed there at 2555 Whittier Boulevard. Contact: John E. Anderson, at the same address.
  • He applied for a Social Security account number on 27 April 1951 while living at 1300 La Puerto Street, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. He listed as his employer Helga Frank, 2555 Whittier Boulevard, Los Angeles.
  • At the time of his death Lorenz Valentine Frank was living in Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, at 4095 Sawtellle Boulevard.
  • Lorenz Valentine Frank died on 16 July 1971 at age 89 in Signal Hill, Los Angeles County, California, at Golden Hours Villa, 209 East Pacific Coast Highway.
  • He was interred at Melrose Abbey Cemetery, Anaheim, Orange County, California.
  • Last Edited: 23 Nov 2016

Family: Helga Adele Anderson b. 26 July 1897, d. 2 November 1967