Frank Washick was born in Bohemia in 1872 and came to America in 1875. He and his wife Elizabeth, (née Bochek) raised a large family in this house in the West 7th St. Area while working as a stationary engineer. He died here in St. Paul in 1929 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Maplewood, MN, according to a Find a Grave entry.