. The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants. n April 7, 1806, remainedir. Hopkinton and became the second wife of EbenezerFrost, October 24, 1831, removing to Canton and in 1836 toCanada, and settling in Smiths Falls in 1839. GEORGE HENRY FROST. George Henry Frost, of the seventh generation fromEdmund (IJ, was born in West Hawkesbury, County ofPrescott, Ontario, then called Upper Canada, July 9, 1838;removed with his father to Smiths Falls in 1839, wherehe lived until July, 1863, when he removed to Chicago,111., where, with the e
. The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants. n April 7, 1806, remainedir. Hopkinton and became the second wife of EbenezerFrost, October 24, 1831, removing to Canton and in 1836 toCanada, and settling in Smiths Falls in 1839. GEORGE HENRY FROST. George Henry Frost, of the seventh generation fromEdmund (IJ, was born in West Hawkesbury, County ofPrescott, Ontario, then called Upper Canada, July 9, 1838;removed with his father to Smiths Falls in 1839, wherehe lived until July, 1863, when he removed to Chicago,111., where, with the exception of several months in 1864spent in St. Louis, Mo., he lived until December 3, 1878,when he arrived in New York, where he lived continuouslyuntil June, 1886, removing thence with his family to hispresent place of residence, Plainfield, New Jerse3^ withbusiness offices in New York City. George H. Frost was educated in the village schoolsof Smiths Falls; in 1854 and 1855 he was a pupil for threeterms at an academy in Glover, Vt.; on his return toSmiths Falls in 1855, he taught for four months in the. CHARLES BERIAH FROST. Died April 20, PAGE 163. IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA 157 village school, where he had been a pupil, to fill out theterm of a retiring assistant teacher, and then prepared, withhis pastor, to enter McGill University, Montreal, graduatingtherefrom, with the degree of Civil Engineer, in 1860, andbeing now one of the very small number of oldest gradu-ates of the class of that year. The instruction in civilengineering in McGill University of these early years wasdecidedly meager; the classes in mathematics and naturalhistory, under such able men as Professor Alexander John-son, still living, and the very justly celebrated Sir WilliamDawson—dead many years ago—saved the situation, andin the case of the student Frost were the controlling eventof his life and the basis of a career which, though not re-markable, has met with fair success. After graduation
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