This genealogy of the Frost family comes from a four volume set of genealogy research compiled in the early 1900s. Each generation is shown in parentheses ( ). Begin with one individual and continue that line through the furthest generation currently known before starting a new descendancy for the next sibling. This method keeps each family group intact, while presenting the families of siblings separately but under the same generational number.
Representatives of families bearing this name came early to America. The first of whom we have record was Nicholas Frost, who arrived here in 1632 and settled on the banks of the Piscataqua, and there is good evidence that he was esteemed a trustworthy citizen as he was honored with appointments to responsible positions. There were also several others of the name who later settled in that vicinity and became prominently identified with the leading interests of the community.
(I) Edmund Frost[1]Robert Anderson treats this individual in his Great Migration Series, vol 2, C-F, page 593-597, came from England in 1635 and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was evidently the home of the family for several generations. Mr. Frost was a ruling elder in the church, and is said to have been a man of great moral worth, “leaving his children the example of a Godly life.” No mention is made of his wife. [2]His wife’s name was written as Thomas-Anne in the Cambridge Church records, who was actually Thomasine Clench whom he married 16 Apr 1634 in Earls Colne, Essex, England. He died July 12, 1672, in Cambridge.
(II) Ephraim Frost was a son of Edmund the emigrant, and was born in Cambridge, but unfortunately the data is very incomplete concerning him and several of his descendants.
(III) Ephraim Frost (2) married Sarah Cooper, daughter of Deacon Samuel Cooper, of Cambridge.
(IV) Samuel Frost, son of Ephraim (2) and Sarah (Cooper) Frost, married Abigail, daughter of Deacon John Cutter.
(V) Cooper Frost, son of Samuel and Abigail (Cutter) Frost, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 3, 1790, and died in Franklin, New Hampshire, in 1876. He was a hatter by trade, and removed from Cambridge to Concord, New Hampshire, in 1811, where he carried on the business for a large part of the time for more than half a century. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mr. Frost possessed much mechanical ingenuity, and was a man of immense muscular power. He married, July 18, 1815, Sarah Trumbull, daughter of John Trumbull. She was born in Concord, and died in Franklin, New Hampshire, in 1874, aged eighty-seven years. Her ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Concord. Her grandfather, Judah Trumbull, was one of thirteen men who with their families were stationed at the garrison around the house of Ebenezer Eastman, and his name appears among the officers of the town as early as 1740. The children of Cooper Frost and Sarah Trumbull Frost were: Charles H., Willard, Luther T., George W., Thomas, Mary S. and Lucy A.
(VI) Luther Trumbull Frost, son of Cooper and Sarah (Trumbull) Frost, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, about 1824, and died in Franklin, New Hampshire, October 24, 1894. He was a practical paper manufacturer, and spent nearly fifty years of his life in Franklin, where he was manager of one of the mills of the Winnepesaukee paper mills. He several times represented Franklin in the legislature in Concord. He was a member of the Mt. Horeb Commandery, Knight Templar, of Concord, and a Democrat in politics. He was a man of good business ability and a worthy citizen. Luther Trumbull Frost married, March 16, 1845, Lydia G., daughter of Major Samuel and Betsey (Brown) Pike. She was born in Franklin, March 14, 1822. Major Samuel Pike was the son of James and Alice George Pike, and was born November 30, 1795, in Goffstown, New Hampshire. His grandfather Simeon emigrated from the Highland district of Scotland; data is lacking regarding the time of his arrival, but it was previous to 1752, as his son James was born that year in Goffstown. The family removed to Franklin, then Salisbury, New Hampshire, in 1757. The name of James Pike appears among the soldiers of the revolution from Salisbury and he was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill. The children of Luther Trumbull and Lydia Pike Frost were: Lorenzo L. and Leroy B. Leroy B. Frost was born in Franklin and married in November, 1869, Eleanor Smith, of Enfield, New Hampshire. He is a practical paper maker in Brattleboro, Vermont (1907).
(VII) Lorenzo L. Frost, son of Luther and Lydia (Pike) Frost, was born September 27, 1846, in Millbury, Massachusetts, and died suddenly from heart failure at the country home of his son, at Pearl River, New York, May 10, 1906. He was educated in the public schools, in the academy at Franklin Falls, and attended Boscawen Academy at Boscawen, New Hampshire. When quite young he learned the paper maker’s trade, working under his father at the Winnepesaukee Paper Company mills long before that company was absorbed by the International Paper Company. He displayed marked ability and advanced so rapidly that while little more than a youth he was placed in charge of one of the mills while his father operated the other. He continued as superintendent at Franklin Falls for seventeen years, with the exception of one year, when he was called to Bellows Falls, Vermont, to put the mills of the Fall Mountain Paper Company in order, and to adjust certain labor troubles, for which task he was admirably fitted. In 1890 Mr. Frost became part owner and manager of the Sunapee Paper Company at Sunapee, New Hampshire, where he remained until 1894, when he sold his interest. After a few months as manager of the Frontenac Paper Company at Dexter, New York, he acquired an interest in the Racquette River Paper Company of Potsdam, New York, which he retained until the fall of 1901, when Mr. Frost and his two sons organized the L. L. Frost Paper Company and built a mill at Norwood, St. Lawrence County, New York, which on January 4, 1904, was totally destroyed by fire. With characteristic energy, which knew no defeat, he directed the increase of the water power from 1500 to 3,000 horse power and constructed, of steel and concrete, what is probably one of the model newspaper mills of the United States. In August, 1905, this property was sold to Northern New York capitalists, and Mr. Frost with his sons, incorporated the Frost & Sons Paper Company, and purchased property at Napanoch, Ulster County, New York. Here mills were built for the manufacturing of jute tissue paper. Mr. Frost was several times urged to accept a nomination to the New Hampshire Legislature, but he declined, not caring for political office. Lorenzo L. Frost was endowed with a unique personality; naturally of a cheerful temperament, he made friends easily and retained them to the last. In his home he was an ideal husband and father. Mr. Frost also had the rare faculty of considering the subject from the other man’s standpoint, as well as his own. Hence he knew little of labor troubles, and his employers recognized in him their best friend. It is said of him that no one in need was ever spurned by him. From early manhood he was a member and a most liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a force for righteousness in every community in which he ever lived, and when he passed from earth he left, as a benediction, the influence that comes from a good man’s life. October 31, 1867, Lorenzo L. Frost married Harriet L. Hayward. She was born October 31, 1846, in Alexandria, New Hampshire, and was the youngest daughter of Jonas Reed and Marcia (Sleeper) Hayward. Jonas Reed Hayward was the son of Josiah and Rebecca Hayward, and was born in Antrim, New Hampshire, April 25, 1805, and died in Alexandria, January 9, 1873. He was a merchant for many years in Concord, New Hampshire, represented the town of Alexandria in the legislature several times, and was generally a man of public affairs. He took a great interest in whatever helped onward the uplift of humanity. He married (first), October 30, 1832, Marcia Sleeper; (second) in August, 1855, Mary Bodwell, a widow. Marcia Sleeper was the daughter of Moses West and Ruth (Worthen) Sleeper. She was born December 26, 1809; she was descended on her father’s side from Thomas Sleeper, who was born in England, about 1607. He emigrated to this country when a young man and settled in Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1640. The Sleeper and Worthen families are very numerous in various parts of the country, and have borne well their share in its civic, political and military affairs. The grandfather of Marcia Sleeper was David Sleeper, who commanded a company of militia in the Revolutionary war. Her father, Peter, also a member of the Continental army, served as sergeant of his company and later became prominent in military and civic affairs. The children of Lorenzo L. and Harriet L. (Hayward) Frost are: Fredric Worthen, Lorena May and Luther Hayward, all born in Franklin, New Hampshire.
(VIII) Luther Hayward Frost fitted for college in the public schools at Franklin, Andover, Massachusetts, Academy and Potsdam, New York, Normal School, and graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. On the death of his father, he succeeded him as business manager of the Frost & Sons Paper Company, at Napanoch, New York, which position he still holds. He married Alice J., a daughter of President Bradford P. Raymond, D.D., LL.D., of Wesleyan University (recently resigned), and Lula (Rich) Raymond. They have one child; Dorothy Raymond Frost, and reside in Ellenville, New York.
(VIII) Lorena May Frost graduated from the high school in Franklin and attended Tilton Seminary one year. Later she graduated from the State Normal School in Potsdam, New York, after which she took a course of study at Pratt’s Institute, New York City, and finally was graduated from Columbia College, in June, 1905. She has been connected with the College Settlement in New York City for two years, but has recently been engaged as a teacher in the schools of Summit, New Jersey.
(VIII) Fredric Worthen Frost, oldest child of Lorenzo L. and Harriet L. Hayward Frost, was born January 8, 1870. He completed the full course of the high school in his native town, Franklin, New Hampshire, and later graduated from Tilton Seminary. He was also graduated from Wesleyan University in 1894 with honors. The next two years he taught in Shady Side Academy, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
During the summer of 1896 he acted as tutor for two boys, taking them through Europe. Mr. Frost then studied law, graduating from the New York Law School in 1898, and was admitted to the New York bar the same year. He is at present (1907) practicing law at 60 Wall Street, New York City. October 25, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, he married Christine Kellogg, daughter of Rev. Charles E. and Rosabella (Hallock) Glover. Charles E. Glover received his education in part at the Biblical Institute in Concord (later merged into Boston University), and was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On her mother’s side Christine Glover Frost is descended from Stephen Hopkins through the line of his daughter Constance. Both were passengers on the “Mayflower.” She is also of the famous Paine family that included Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and her great-grandmother, Ruth Adams, was an own cousin of President John Adams. Mrs. Frost is naturally interested in colonial history. She is a member of the New England Chapter of the Society of the Mayflower Descendants, and on the Adams side is eligible to the Society of the Colonial Dames. Fredric W. and Christine (Glover) Frost have two children: Fredric W. (2) and Constance Hopkins Frost. Their winter home is in New York City, and they reside in summer at Pearl River, Rockland County, New York.
Source
Stearns, Ezra S., Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, 4 vols., New York : Lewis Publishing Co., 1908.