Nashua, Dec. 2, 1902. Col. Frank G. Noyes, a well-known citizen, died at his home in Noyes block, Monday afternoon, at 3:10. His demise was sudden, and was due to congestive apoplexy, which, in turn, is said to have been superinduced by a fall received some days ago.
Frank G. Noyes was born in Nashua, July 6, 1833. He was the son of Col. Leonard W. and Anne Sewall (Gardner) Noyes. He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and entered college in 1849, graduating in 1853. Colonel Noyes read law in the offices of Rufus Choate and Sidney Bartlett, in Boston, and attended lectures at the law school at Harvard University. He graduated from Harvard with the degree of LL. B., in 1856, and was admitted to practice in the courts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Immediately thereafter he settled in Clinton, La., and formed a copartnership with Nathaniel B. Baker, ex-governor of New Hampshire, remaining in active practice of law until the opening of the civil war.
He was commissioned aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Kirkwood of Iowa. ... he served as chief of his department on the staffs of Generals Granger and H. G. Wright, when he was honorably discharged, in November, 1865.
...to Iowa, where he was engaged in manufacturing until 1879, when he returned to Nashua. After his return to Nashua he gave up the practice of law and devoted his time to the care of his property.
...Besides his connection with the Grand Army, he was a Free Mason. He was a man of thorough executive ability, and was much respected by his friends and colleagues. He was a prominent speaker, and many times he had been heard throughout the State.
Colonel Noyes was united in marriage, Nov. 20, 1856, with Hannah E. Richardson, of Lowell, Mass. The children who survive him are Anna Gardner, wife of Sheridan P. Reid, exconsul of Tien Tsin, China; Clara L. H., Grace Richardson, and Elizabeth.