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Fronczak, Francis Eustace, physician, surwas born Sept. 20, 1874, in New York City. He was educated in the St. Stanisgeon,

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o1 He university. studied in Poland in 1900; and has travelextensively. I n e d 1903 he was elected town physician of Cheektowaga, X.Y. ; and since 1907 has been assistant health commissioner of Buffalo, N.Y. He is a director of the Buffalo life insurance company; a director of the Union stockyards bank; a director and treasurer of the Powder river mining company; and a trustee of the American savings bank of Buffalo. He is also president of the Polish national aid association.

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Frost, Arthur Burdette, illustrator, artist, author, was born in 1851 in Philadelphia, In 1900 he was an exhibitor at the Pa. Paris exposition. He is the author of Golfer's Alphabet; Stuff and Nonsense; Sports and Games in the Open and Book of Draw;

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Frost,

Charles,

soldier,

legislator,

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born in 1632 in England. He was a member of the general court in 1658-69; and assistant in 1680; and in 1693-97 a councillor. He was also a colonel of the Maine regiment, and participated in the Indian wars. He died July 14, 1697. Frost, Charles Christopher, botanist, author, was born in 1806 in Brattleboro, Vt. He devoted his leisure hours to astronomy,

geology, mineralogy, meteorology; and gave the last half of his life to the study of botany. He was joint author with Edward

Tuckerman of a Catalogue of Plants growing without Cultivation within Thirty Miles He died in 1880. of Amherst College. Frost, tect,

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Boston, Mass.

Since 1882 he has practiced architecture in Chicago, 111. Frost, D. M., soldier. He attained the rank of brigadier-general during the civil war. He died in 1900. Frost, George, lawyer, jurist, congressman, 1720, in New Castle, of the court of common pleas of Stafford county in 1773-91; and was for many years chief justice. In 1777-79 he was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress; and counHe died June 21, 1796, in cilor in 1781-84.

was born April 26, N.H. He was judge

Durham, N.H.

Danville, Pa.

Frost, Joel, congressman, was born in Westchester county, N.Y. He served in the New York state assembly in 1806 and 1808; and in 1823-25 he was a representative from New York to the eighteenth congress. He died in New York. Frost, John, soldier, jurist, was born May He served in 1738, in Kittery, Maine. the revolutionary war; and attained the rank of colonel. He was appointed one of the justices of the court of sessions in York county, Maine; and was a member of the council of the governor of Massachusetts. He died in July, 1810, in Kittery, Maine. 5,

Frost, John, educator, author, was born Jan. 36, 1800, in Kennebunk, Maine. In 1838 he was appointed professor of English literature in the central high school of Philadelphia. He was the author of Beauties of English History; Beauties of French History; Wild Scenes in a Hunter's Life; Pioneer Mothers in the West; The Presidents of the United States; Pictorial History of the United States; and History of the World. He died Dec. 28, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa. Frost, Margaret Fulton Alcorn, educator, philanthropist, was born in 1809 in Ireland. She was principal of the Westerly academy of Rhode Island; and principal of the Seabury seminary of New York City. She was one of the first women of her time to obtain a classical education; and throughout her life worked for temperance, peace and social purity. She died in 1891 in New

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City.

Graham, lawyer, congressman, was born Dee. 29, 1851, in St. Louis, Mo. In 1879-83 he was a representative from Missouri to the forty-sixth and fortyFrost, Richard

seventh congresses as a democrat. 1,

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a professor in the Philadelphia homoeopathic college in 1865-68; and was one of the founders and editors of the HahHe died in 1875 in nemanian Monthly.

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Maine.

James Henry Paine, physician, was born in 1825 in Bethel, Maine.

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Frost, Rufus Smith, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born July 18, 1826, in Marlborough, N.H. He was state senator in 1871-72; and was a member of the

governor's council in 1873 and 1875. In 1875-77 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-fourth congress. He died March 6, 1894, in Chicago, 111. Frost, William Albert Crawford, clergyman, author, was born in 1863 in Canada. He has filled pastorates in Canada; and since 1896 has been pastor of the church of the holy comforter of Baltimore, Maryland.

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