John Franklin "Frank" Daggs was born in Memphis, Missouri.  In around 1880 he and his four brothers moved to the Arizona Territory to become sheep herders in Flagstaff.  All of the Daggs brothers were intelligent men, and in addition to ranching each filled a professional position in the Flagstaff community. 

In 1884 Frank was hired by John Stemmer to manage his Flagstaff Brewery.  Although the brewery was an established success, the position was short-lived, as Stemmer's residence burned to the ground in November and Stemmer died in the flames.

Frank Daggs sued Stemmer's widow Mary for control of the brewery and won, and in May of 1885 Daggs reopened the Flagstaff at a new location, in Old Town, near the spring.  He ran the brewery with William Carl for a little over a year before Augustus Dillman Freudenberger purchased Dagg's partnership.

The Daggs Brothers were influential and wealthy citizens, and had a reputation for manipulating the law to suit their ends.  Two of John's brothers were attorneys, and their services were called on repeatedly for family matters.  Their main business was sheepherding and in 1887 they drove their sheep into Tonto Basin, which at the time was cattle country.  This ignited one of the bloodiest range wars in the old west, in which upwards of 50 people died.  The war ended with a lawsuit in which the Daggs brothers naturally won. 

John Franklin Daggs died on the 18th of May, 1923.  He was 70 years old.

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