Frank Stafford was born in Edmunds county; South Dakota March 19, 1884. He was educated at Portland, Oregon. He was operator for the Soo Line in Velva for a number of years. On June 20, 1912 he married Jessie Penn at Velva. She died in 1919. The Staffords moved to McHenry in 1912 where he was cashier in the bank until 1929. He was on of the original board of directors of the Tri-County Electric and was manager of the coop's Glenfield office and later in the Carrington office. He retired in 1948.
On July 19, 1924 he married as his second wife, Hannah Bjorge at Crookston, Minnesota. He had two daughters: Ruth (Mrs. Harvey Sletten) and June (Mrs. Irvin Lande).
Mrs. Stafford died in October 1961.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 79B