Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 29 May 2003

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FRANK M. CUNNINGHAM, teacher, Harveysburg, was born near Loveland, in Hamilton Co., Ohio, March 22, 1849; is a son of Frederick and Sarah P. (McDonald) Cunningham; he was born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, May 4, 1821, and died, July 8, 1852; she was born in Cincinnati, Oct. 8, 1824. They had three children - Josephine, Frank and Alice, all now living. The paternal grandparents were John and Catharine Cunningham, both deceased. The maternal grandparents were John and Maria McDonald, the former is deceased. The subject of this sketch spent his childhood days on the farm, receiving a good common school education at the country schools; then he took a two years’ academic course and spent a short time at the National Normal University, at Lebanon, Ohio. At the age of 21 years he commenced teaching, which profession he has since followed, and in now (1881) Principal of the Harveysburg Schools. He read law with J. W. O’Neall, Probate Judge of Warren Co., and was admitted to the bar in 1878.