Frank Spain

Frank Spain was born on an ancestral plantation in Georgia but later moved to Waban, Massachusetts, where he learned to play hockey. He attended Phillips Exeter prep school and then Dartmouth, where he majored in philosophy and played hockey and baseball. After college he played for an amateur team, the Boston Olympics, and also toured Europe for several years. Following his 1941 marriage, Spain moved to Rochester, NY where he began a career in the abrasive business, eventually forming his own company, Grinding Supply Inc.