Frank Emanuel Olsen, son of James P. and Johanna Olsen of Sulphur, Nevada, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 6th, 1888. After finishing a grade-school education, he took up mining and camp work. In the meantime he had moved to Sulphur, Humboldt County, Nevada. On October 3, 1917, he entered the army from Sulphur. He went over-seas on his birthday, March 6, 1918, and before many months had passed was fighting on the front. From August 8th to October 12th, he served in the Somme region and in the offensive there, and from October 18th to November 11th, in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. During these periods he was gassed and shellshocked, which were the causes that ultimately brought about his death.

On October 10, 1918, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallant conduct. After the war he returned to the States and received his honorable discharge at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. (May 10, 1919). He then went back to his work at Sulphur, following mining off and on until March 1st, 1920. At that time he went to Oakland, California, for vocational training in Mining Engineering, but his health became so poor that he was compelled to enter the U. S. Base Hospital at Palo Alto. There he died on the 2d of July, 1920, of the effects of injuries and gas received while fighting for the Flag in France. His remains were returned to Nevada and buried at Winnemucca, Humboldt County. Besides his parents this heroic Humboldt County boy left two brothers, Leonard J. and Ralph C. Olsen of Sulphur, Nevada, and a sister, Miss Hazel M. Olsen, of Salt Lake City, Utah. Those who knew him in life find comfort in the fact that he sleeps in a hero’s grave in the soil of a grateful State.