Frank C. Fryett, the leading photographer of Grand Rapids, was born in Stark county, Ohio, February 14, 1860. Until eighteen years old he attended school in Alliance, Ohio, and at that early age became superintendent of an oil district in Pennsylvania, the duties of which he discharged for a period of three years. At the end of that time he went to Farmer City, Ill.; and engaged as an apprentice to learn photography, and after a careful study of one year’s duration, made a trip through the west and southwest, traveling extensively over New Mexico and Colorado, and finally located at the town of Redlands, Cal., where he opened an art studio, which he conducted until 1893. In that year he disposed of his business and removed to the city of Los Angeles, where he again opened a gallery and did well until 1895, at which time he sold out, and, coming east, located the following year in Grand Rapids. Mich. Here he at once established an art studio at No. 84 Monroe street, and has since controlled his full share of patronage as a photographer. His studio is supplied with all the latest ,modern appliance pertaining to the art, and the work there from is of a high grade, first class in every particular, and has been pronounced by competent critics to be superior to that of any similar establishment in the city. As an artist, Mr. Fryett occupies a high place in the profession and keeps fully abreast of the times in all things pertaining to the art, and is widely and favorably known, not only in the city, where his work is always on public exhibition, but is known as a prominent photographer throughout the states. Financially his success has been encouraging.