Private Frank Gilbert Dann
- Unit: 33rd Division, 132nd Infantry Regiment, Company F
- Date of Birth: September 27, 1895
- Entered the Military: January 31, 1918
- Date of Death: October 10, 1918
- Hometown: Cedar Falls, Iowa
- Place of Death: south of Bois de Chaume, France
- Cemetery: Plot C, Row 34, Grave 4. Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-Sous-Montfaucon, France
Contributed by Mrs. Suzan Turner
Nashua-Plainfield High School
2017-2018
Nashua-Plainfield High School
2017-2018
Early Life
Home on the Farm
On September 27, 1895, Franklin Gilbert Dann was born at home on the family farm west of Cedar Falls, Iowa, the second child of eight to Frank William and Lillian Mae (Myers) Dann. Dann attended country school in Cedar Falls Township #2, where he received an eighth grade education, as was typical for boys from midwestern farm families.
After completing his education, Dann immediately began farming with his father full-time due to the manpower and muscle needed to sustain a family farm before the total mechanization of agriculture. Upon the death of his grandfather in 1915, Dann’s family sold the family farm to settle the estate and moved to S