Oren Ernest Frazee was born 15 March 1880 in Wabash County, Indiana, the son of John and Susannah Arnold Frazee. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in zoology at the University of Indiana in 1909 and 1912 respectively, and attended Harvard in 1928. After teaching in high schools in Indiana and Illinois, he became chairman of the biology department at State Teachers College, St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1915. In 1920 Frazee moved to the State Teachers College, La Crosse (now the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), to become the chairman of its biology department. Frazee was privately involved in genealogical research, and became a Fellow of the American Institute of Genealogy. He was a collaborator in Ancestral Lines of the Doniphan, Frazee, Hamilton Families (1928) and fifteen of his manuscripts on related families are at the Institute of American Genealogy in Chicago. He retired in 1950 and died 22 March 1960 in La Crosse.
Oren Frazee married Alice B. Devol in 1912. Born 28 September 1880 in Tray, Illinois, she was the daughter of James M. Devol, a railroad inspector and amateur poet, and Martha Badgely Devol. Alice Devol attended the University of Vincennes, Indiana, 1900-1901, and received an A.B. from Indiana University in 1904. She was a teacher before her marriage. Later she was a very active member of the La Crosse chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was involved in the Campus Dames, a literary society at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Like her husband, Mrs. Frazee was interested in genealogy, and like her father she was an amateur poet. Both of the Frazees were active members of the First Presbyterian Church of La Crosse. They had one daughter, Alice Frazee Ginn, born in 1916. Alice D. Frazee died 22 April 1962 in La Crosse.
