Mondell, Frank W
congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1860, in St. Louis, Mo.
He is a successful discoverer, developer, and manager of extensive coal interests at Newcastle, Wyo., of which city he has served five times as mayor. He attended the local district schools of Iowa; and received instruction in the higher branches from a private tutor. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and in railway construction in various western states and territories; and settled in Wyoming in 1887. He was elected mayor of the new town of Newcastle in 1888, and served until 1895. He was elected a member of the first state senate in 1890; and served as president of that body at the session of 1892. He was a delegate to the republican national convention at Minneapolis in 1892; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. In 1897 he was appointed assistant commissioner of the general land office.