HORACE FROST - Biography

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This biography appears on page 662 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

HORACE FROST, farmer; P. O. Rochester; born in Dummerston Windham, Vt.,
July 27, 1810 the son of Benjamin and Lydia Frost; came to Rochester in
June, 1836, and located a claim on the southwest quarter of Sec. 9, was
obliged to purchase of William Jones and pay him $100 to get a title,
which was one of the tricks of an early day, as there was no pre-emption
law at that time. Mr. Frost has 177 acres, and cultivates 65 or 77
acres. He married in Vermont, in October, 1838, Miss Amanda Bailey,
daughter of Samuel and Christina Bailey, of Westmoreland, N. H.; they
have had twelve children- nine living -Julia A., born Nov. 16, 1841;
Amelia A., Nov. 12, 1843; Nelson S., Dec. 5, 1845: William H., Aug. 15,
1847; Mary A., Aug. 19, 1849 ; Olive M., May 10, 1851; Byron P., Nov.
18, 1854; Edward M., Sept. 9, 1856; Myrtie L., Aug. 31, 1860. Julia A.
married William H. Waddell; Amelia, Thomas J. Bottomly; Mary A., Emily
Freeman; William H., Olive Blaine; Byron P., Mary Wannamaker; Olive,
Thomas A. Noble.