his approach the warriors burned their chief town, Onondaga, and fled into the forests. After destroying the town of Oneida the expedition returned. The Iroquois were never again a peril to the colony which, during the past half century, they had repeatedly threatened with destruction. But Frontenac was near his end. Overcome at last by age, toils, and passions, he closed his stormy life in 1698, beloved by the Canadian peasantry and hated by the ecclesiastics, except always, his favorites and protégés, the Recollet friars. With all his faults, he had done priceless service to the colony, and his name stands in its annals as that of the most remarkable man who ever represented the crown of France in America.
FROST, Charles, soldier, b. in Tiverton, Eng-
land, in 1(532; d. 14 July, IG'JT. About l(i3« he
accompanied his father, Nicholas, to the Piscata-
qua river, and settled at the head of Sturgeon
creek. He was a member of the general court
from 1658 till 1669, and assistant in 1680, and in
169o-'7 a councillor. He was also a colonel of the
Maine regiment, and particijiated in the Indian
wars. He was ambushed and killed by Indians in
consequence of his having treacherously seized
some of them, who were either hanged or sold into
slavery in a time of peace.
FROST, Charles Christopher, botanist, b. in
Brattleboro, Vt., in 1806 ; d. in 1880. He received
his early instruction at a common school of his
native village, excelled in mathematics, and studied
it several years after he had left school and be-
gun to work at his trade as a shoemaker, making
himself familiar with algebra, geometry, the cal-
culus, and kindred branches. Later he devoted
his leisure hours to astronomy, geology, miner-
alogy, meteorology, and botany, especially the last-
named study, to which he gave the last half of his
life. He contributed to periodicals and was a
member of scientific societies in the United States
and Europe. During all these years he continued
his business in his native town. He was joint au-
thor with Edward Tuckcrman of a " Catalogue of
Plants growing without Cultivation within Thirty
Miles of Amherst College " (Amherst, 1875).
FROST, George, jurist, b. in New Castle, N. II.,
26 April, 1720; d. in Durham, N. H., 21 June,
1796. He was a son of John Frost, a commander
in the British navy, who died in 1732. The son
received a public-school education, and was brought
up in the counting-house of his uncle, Sir Will-
iam Pepperell, at Kittery Point, near Portsmouth,
N. H. About 1740 he entered one of his uncle's
vessels as supercargo and captain, and was a sea-
man for about twenty years, becoming a partner
with George Richards, of London. About 1760 he
returned to his old home in New Castle, and re-
sided there until his marriage in 1764 in Durham,
N. H., where he removed in 1769. He was judge
of common pleas of Stafford county from 1773 till
1791, and for many years chief justice. He was a
delegate to the Continental congress in 1777-'9,
and was executive councillor in 1781-'4.
FROST, James Henry Paine, physician. b. in
Bethel, Me., 24 May, 182o ; d. in Danville, Pa., 21
Jan., 1875. He was educated at Bowdoin and Am-
herst, where he was graduated and took his med-
ical degree at the Homoeopathic college at Phila-
delphia in 1849. He practised for several years at
Wilmington, N. C, but in 1853-'5 he studied the-
ology at Bangor seminary, Me., and preached one
summer in Richmond, Me. The failure of his
voice forced him to leave the ministry, and he re-
turned to medicine, which he practised for fifteen
years in Bangor, Me. He was a professor in the
Philadelphia HomcEopathic college in 1865-'8, and
during this period was one of tlie founders and
editors of the " Hahnemanian Monthly." After
living for some time at Bethlehem, Pa., he removed
to Danville, Pa., where he remained and continued
his residence till his death. He contributed largely
to current medical literature.
FROST, John, soldier, b. in Kittery, Me., 5
May, 1738: d. there in Jidy, 1810. He served as
captain in the Canadian campaign of 1759, and in
1775 was a lieutenant-colonel at the siege of Bos-
ton. When the campaign of 1776 began, he was
promoted to the rank of colonel, and he won dis-
tinction in the severe engagements that preceded
the retreat of Washington to Philadelphia. When
Burgoyne invaded New York, Col. Frost's regi-
ment became an adjunct to the army under Gen.
Gates, and, after Burgoyne's surrender. Col. Frost
joined Washington's central division, and partici-
pated in the action of Monmouth and other en-
gagements. Until the close of the war he served
in the middle and southern states, and left the
army with the rank of brigadier-general. He then
returned to Kittery, was appointed judge of the
court of sessions for York county, Me., and was
subsequently a member of the governor's council
in Massachusetts, of which Maine was then part.
FROST, John, compiler, b. in Kennebunk, Me.,
26 Jan., 1800; d. in Philadelphia. Pa., 28 Dec,
1859. After one year in Bowdoin he entered Har-
vard, where he was graduated in 1822. He was
principal of Mayhew school, Boston, in 1823-'7, and
conducted a school for young ladies in Philadel-
phia till 1838, when he was appointed professor of
English literature in the central high-school of
that city. He resigned this post in 1845, and de-
voted himself to the compilation of histories and
biographies, of which, assisted by a corps of writ-
ers, he published over 300. Marietta college, Ohio,
gave liim the degree of LL. D. in 1843. His pub-
lications include " History of the World " (3 vols.) ;
"Pictorial History of the United States" (2 vols.,
Philadelphia, 1844); "Beauties of English His-
tory"; "Wild Scenes of a Hunter's Life"; "Illus-
trious Mechanics"; "Book of Heroes"; "Book of
the Armv " ; and " Book of the Navy."
FROST, Rnfus Smith, philanthropist, b. in
Marlborough, N. II.. 18 July, 1826 ; d. in Chicago, 6
March. 1894. He wiis educated in the public schools
of Boston and in Newton academy, and began
mercantile life as a clerk. He afterward engaged
in business on his own account, and also became a
manufacturer. He was elected mayor of Chelsea
in 1867 and 1868, was a member of the state senate
in 1871-'2, and of the governor's council in 1873-'4,
He built a fire-proof building in his native town
in 1867, placed in it a valuable library, and pre-
sented it to the town on condition that it should
be for the free use of the people. He claimed to
have been elected to congress as a Republican in
1874, but the house gave the seat on a technicality
to J. G. Abbott, Democrat, who had contested the
election. During the contest Mr. Frost retained
his seat, serving from 6 Dec, 1875, till 28 July,
1876. Mr. Frost was president of the Boston board
of trade in 1879-'81, has been a trustee of Welles-
ley college since 1876, and president of the New
England conservatory of music since 1882.
FROST, Thomas, clergyman, b. in Pulham, near Norwich, England, in 1759 ; d. in Charleston, S. C., 18 July, 1804. He was graduated at Cambridge university in 1780, and was ordained deacon, 11 March, 1781, and priest, 6 June, 1784, by the bishop of Norwich. Putting aside prospects of
advancement in the established church. Mr. Frost
