Frances Tetlak, the daughter of Polish immigrants, lived her entire life in the Tremont area of Cleveland. Ambitious for a woman in her time and inspired by her father’s embrace of his new country, she worked with him in helping other Polish families immigrate to Cleveland. Before earning her law degree, she earned a degree in library science from the Flora Stone Mather College and opened the Frances Tetlak Insurance Company. As a young woman, she worked in the Scranton-Clark Branch of the Cleveland Public Library and practiced law in an office on Tremont’s Professor Street. Though born in America, she was fluent in Polish and much of her law practice was concerned with the business and legal challenges confronting immigrants. Eventually, she concentrated her practice on wills and estates. She left an estate of $240,000 to Marymount Hospital, which was operated by a Polish order of nuns.