Biographical Sketch of John S. Frost, Phelps County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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John S. Frost, M. D., residing five miles north of Rolla, was born in
Acton, Me., in 1834, and is a son of George W. and Sarah E. (Farnham)
Frost, who were also born in Maine.  The father received a good educa-
tion in an academy in Portsmouth, N. H., and afterward engaged in the
practice of law and merchandising.  His wife was born in 1807, and died
in Granby, Canada, in 1888, having borne a family of five children, of
whom John S. was the fourth.  At the age of eighteen years he, having
made that science a study, began lecturing on phrenology, and at the 
age of twenty years took a partial course in medicine in New York City.
He received an academic education in Granby, Lower Canada, and is well
versed in Greek and Latin.  He taught school one year near Baltimore,
Md.  He moved to Missour in 1857, locating at Vienna, Maries County, in
1858, and in 1863 moved to his present home, near Rolla, Phelps County,
Mo.  He was married to Miss Esther Spencer in 1865, who was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1831, and by her is the father of two living 
children: Esther Jane and Henry Cleino.  Since 1863 he has resided on
his present farm of 300 acres in Phelps County, and during all this 
time has been an active medical practitioner.  He was ordained a minis-
ter of the Baptist church in 1865, and has expounded the doctrine of 
that church at various times up to the present date.  He is a Democrat
in politics, and in 1860 was elected coroner of Maries County, Mo., but
refused to act.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and his wife is a
member of the Rebecca Lodge, and also belongs to the Baptist Church. He
has been appointed notary public by three different governors of Miss-
ouri, and is particularly noted for aiding all eleemosynary and educa-
tional enterprises in his locality.  John S. Frost is a descendant of
among the oldest families of the United States.  His foreparents 
immigrated to what is now the State of Maine in March, 1656, from 
Tiverton, England.

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