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 FROST. FROST. = 35 mitted a partner of the tirm of L. B. Hor- t. >ii & Co., which took the name u(" Horton, Boon iV Frost ; in 1857, Boon, Frosl & Co., and in [868 Henry Frost & Co. He is at present a large and prosperous silk manu- facturer, his firm representing the Eureka Silk Manufacturing Company, of which HENRY FROST. Mr. Frost is vice-president, and for whom Seavy, Foster & Bowman are selling agents. Of this latter firm Mr. Frost is also a partner. Mr. Frost was married in Boston, Sep- tember 4, 1.S60, to Elizabeth Burrows, daughter of John and Ann (Burrows) Gil- bert. They have two children : Henry Gilbert and William Lawrence Frost. Mr. Frost has been a member of the Boston ward and city committee for ten years; member of the Boston common council 1886 and '87 ; member of the I egislature as representative [888 and '89, serving on the committees on public chari- table institutions, cities and library. He has been a justice of the peace three terms ; was chairman of the building com- mittee of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association twelve years ; is a prominent member of the Boston Merchants' Club, 1 lome Market Club, and Mercantile Associ- ation : trustee of Home Savings Dank, and a number of other corporations. He has been a member of the Congre- gational denomination since [853, and is an honored member of the Congregational Club. Mr. Frost was a delegate to the World's Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association which met at Stockholm in [888. FROST, RUFUS SMITH, son of Joseph, Jr., and Lucy (Wheeler) Frost, was born in Marlborough, Cheshire county, N. II., July (8, 1826. His father, a thrifty farmer, was a native of this town, as were three successive generations of the same fami- ly. The English ancestor, Elder Edmund Frost, came to this country in the sloop "(beat Hope," during the autumn of 1635, from Ipswich, England, accompanied by his wife and son. He settled in Cambridge, where he became ruling elder ol the First church, which was organized soon after his arrival. From this most excellent patriarch seven generations have lineally descended, Mr. F'rost being in the seventh. ( >n his mater- nal side he derives his origin from Thomas Wheeler, who was established in Town- send as early as 1640. His grandfather was David Wheeler, who married Rebecca Hoar of Concord, and was the first town clerk of Marlborough, N. II., in 1776. Mr. Frost, the eighth child of his parents, left his native town at the age of seven years, together with his widowed mother and family, and removed to Boston. There he attended the public schools, and supple- mented his public school education by a course of academic training in Newton. Thus fitted for a commercial career, he entered a wholesale dry -goods house in Boston. By vigor, aptitude, and ability displayed in this service, he rapidly rose to the highest position, and at the age of twenty-one was admitted to partnership in the firm which adopted the title of Osgood <!v Frost, and continued in business for sev- eral years. In rS66 the present firm of RufllS S. Frost & Co. was organized for the transaction of a general commission business in American goods. Mr. Frost soon became extensively engaged in the manufacture of woolens. The National Association of Woolen Manufacturers was founded November 20, 1S64. Of that association Mr. Frost was president for seven years. He is also chairman of the executive committee. To the astonishingly rapid development of American manufacture during the last twenty years Mr. Frost has conspicuously and effectively contributed. His adminis-