25 Facts About Frank Barbour

Francis Edward Barbour was an American college football player and coach and businessman.

Frank Barbour remained with Beech-Nut for 38 years and served as chairman of the board from 1946 to 1948.

Frank Barbour's father, William McLeod Barbour, was a minister who emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1851, and became a professor of theology at Yale University.

Frank Barbour's mother was Eliza A Barbour, a native of New York.

At the time of the 1880 Census, Frank Barbour was ten years old and residing in New Haven, Connecticut, with his parents and four older siblings.

Frank Barbour attended the public schools in New Haven, and subsequently enrolled at the Phillips Exeter Academy.

Frank Barbour was the captain of Exeter's football team in 1888.

Frank Barbour is cool, passes well and sure, uses his signals to good advantage and is an excellent player.

Frank Barbour is considered a much superior player to the Harvard quarterback.

In 1892, Frank Barbour was hired as the head football coach at the University of Michigan.

Frank Barbour returned the following year as the coach of the 1893 Michigan Wolverines football team.

Frank Barbour returned to Michigan in 1894 for part of the season to assist in developing the football team.

Frank Barbour was not a great coach in every sense of the term, but he knew the game and had a class of apt scholars.

Frank Barbour worked as a traffic clerk for the New York Central Railroad and lived in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1892 to 1898.

Frank Barbour served for a time as a passenger agent for the Rutland Railway, which was owned by the New York Central Railroad, in Rutland, Vermont.

Frank Barbour's brother had been involved in founding American Chicle Company, the originator of Chiclets.

In 1910, Frank Barbour went into business with his brother-in-law, Bartlett Arkell, who had founded the Beech-Nut Packing Company.

Frank Barbour traveled extensively in Guatemala, Honduras, British Honduras and the Yucatan to procure the company's supply of chicle, the rubbery sap of the sapota tree that was the key ingredient in chewing gum.

Frank Barbour served as a director of Beech-Nut from 1910 to 1948 and became vice president in 1921.

In 1946, following Arkell's death, Frank Barbour was elected as the chairman of the board of Beech-Nut.

In September 1908, Frank Barbour married Bertelle Arkelle Gillam in Canajoharie, New York.

Frank Barbour had previously been married to the noted cartoonist, Bernhard Gillam, who died in 1896.

Frank Barbour died on February 4,1948, at his home in Canajoharie.

Frank Barbour was survived by his wife, Bertelle, and his brother, James R Barbour.

Frank Barbour's wife created the Arkell Hall Foundation which funded the Arkell Museum and provides residential and community facilities for the senior population in Canajoharie.