Biography

Desnoyers was born on August 7, 1859. His father, Francis

Francis X. Desnoyers

-Biography:Desnoyers was born Francis Xavier Desnoyers on July 29, 1813 in Detroit, Michigan. He would marry Louisa A. Baird of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and had three children. Their son, Frank, would also become Mayor of Green Bay and would marry the daughter of another Green Bay Mayor, M. P....

, had previously been Mayor of Green Bay. He married Leila E. Lindsley, daughter of Green Bay Mayor M. P. Lindsley

M. P. Lindsley

M. P. Lindsley was Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin and a member of the Wisconsin State Senate.-Biography:Lindsley was born Myron Plato Lindsley on September 18, 1825 in Middlesex, New York. His daughter, Leila, would marry Green Bay Mayor Frank B. Desnoyers, who was also son of another Mayor of Green...

, in 1882. They had four children before her passing on October 19, 1920. In 1923, he married Augusta Nixon of Ashland, Virginia

Ashland, Virginia

Originally known as Slash Cottage, Ashland is located on the Old Washington Highway U.S. Route One and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, a busy north-south route now owned by CSX Transportation...

. He passed away in 1945.

Political career

Desnoyers served as Mayor of Green Bay from 1896 to 1898. Later, he served as a Green Bay City Councilman and Treasurer of Brown County, Wisconsin.