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Source #1 - Page 483 CHARLES W. FRINK, M.D., the son of a man who has cast distinction on the medical profession in Elkhart county, and himself one of the most prominent members of the medical fraternity in this county, was born over in LaGrange county, on a farm, Jan. 20, 1863, a son of Charles S. and Anabel (Vermilye or Vermilje) Frink.
    
On his mother's side Dr. Frink is of pure Dutch descent, representing the present generation of the family which Johannes Vermilye, of Holland, established in this country during its colonial epoch, and it is a matter of record that his Johannes Vermilye was one of the twenty-three original grantees of the old town of Harlem, New York city.
     His father, Dr. Charles S. Frink, who was a son of Nathan Frink, a native of New York, was born in New York state and in early life came to Indiana, married and settled in Lagrange county.  He held the office of county recorder several years.  HE studied medicine, graduating from the University of Michigan just before the Civil war, and volunteered his services to the Union cause.  He made a distinguished record as a surgeon, became lieutenant colonel, and served as medical director of the Twenty-third Army Corps.  Locating in Elkhart at the close of the war, he continued in active practice here until his death, in 1893, at the age of fifty-six.  He was a member of the American Medical Association and also of the state society, was a prominent G. A. R. man and a member of the Loyal Legion, was a Mason, and took a very active part in church work as a member of the Methodist denomination, being secretary of the board of trustees and contributing  largely to the erection of the edifice where he worshiped till his death. Twice married, by his first wife he had a son and a daughter, the latter now Mrs. D. J. Yoder, a widow, living in Elkhart.  For his second wife he married Angeline S. Lowe, of Philadelphia, who now survives him and lives in Elkhart.  The children of the second union are Lauer S., Arthur S., Ralph M., Mrs. Z. F. Benfer, of Chicago, and Miss Emily.
     Dr. C. W. Frink
was reared in Elkhart and has spent most of his active career here.  Graduating from the Elkhart High School in 1880, he entered the office of S. M. Cummins, D. D. S., and spent two years in the study of dentistry.  He then spent one year each in Hillsdale College, Michigan, and DePauw University in Indiana.  Then in 1884 matriculating at Rush Medical College Chicago, he graduated from that well known institution in 1887.  For the following four years he practiced at Indianapolis, and for one year of that time was deputy coroner of Marion county.  He came to Elkhart in 1891, joining his father and continuing a joint practice until the latter's death in 1893, and since then has carried on his large practice alone.  He does a large amount of professional business as surgeon and medical examiner, being surgeon to the Big Four and the Indiana Electric Railroad companies, and is medical examiner for the Mutual Life of New York, the New York Life, the Massachusetts Mutual, the Northwestern of Milwaukee, the Connecticut Mutual, the Mutual Benefit of New York, the Manhattan, and served other life insurance companies.  He is a member of the county and state medical societies and of the American Medical Association, and also of the Association Academy of Railway Surgeons.  His religious connections are with the Presbyterian denomination.
     Dr. Frink, married in 1889, Miss Maud Robinson, of Indianapolis.  They are the parents of three children, Charles R., Miriam and Maurice M.
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