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John S. Frost, M. D., residing five miles north of Rolla, was born in Acton, Me., in 1834, and is a son of George W. and Sarah E. (Farnham) Frost, who were also born in Maine. The father received a good education in an academy in Portsmouth, N. H., and afterward engaged in the practice of law and merchandising. His wife was born in 1807, and died in Granby, Canada, in 1888, having borne a family of five children, of whom John S. was the fourth. At the age of eighteen years he, having made that science a study, began lecturing on phrenology, and at the age of twenty years took a partial course in medicine in New York City. He received an academic education in Granby, Lower Canada, and is well versed in Greek and Latin. He taught school one year near Baltimore, Md. He moved to Missouri in 1857, locating at Vienna, Maries County, in 1858, and in 1863 moved to his present home, near Rolla, Phelps Co., Mo. He was married to Miss Esther Spencer in 1865, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1831, and by her is the father of two living children: Esther Jane and Henry Cleino. Since 1863 he has resided on his present farm of 300 acres in Phelps County, Mo., and during all this time has been an active medical practitioner. He was ordained a minister of the Baptist Church in 1865, and has expounded the doctrine of that church at various times up to the present date. He is a Democrat in politics, and in 1860 was elected coroner of Maries County, Mo., but refused to act. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and his wife is a member of the Rebecca Lodge, and also belongs to the Baptist Church. He has been appointed notary public by three different governors of Missouri, and is particularly noted for aiding all eleemosynary and educational enterprises in his locality. John S. Frost is a descendant of among the oldest families of the United States. His foreparents immigrated to what is now the State of Maine in March, 1656, from Tiverton, England.