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Frisbie, Levi – Frothingham, Richard

Frisbie, Levi

educator, author, was born Sept. 15, 1783, in Ipswich, Mass. He was a tutor and professor at Harvard college from 1805 till his death; and the author of Miscellaneous Writings of Professor Frisbie, edited with Memoir by Andrews Norton. He died in 1822.

Frisby, Edgar

educator, astronomer, author, was born May 22, 1837, in England. He was sent to California by the United States government to observe the total solar eclipse on Jan. 11, 1880.

His principal work is the computation of the orbit of the great comet of 1882.

Fristoe, Edward T

soldier, educator, was born Dec. 16, 1830, in Rappahannock county, Va. In 1860 he was called to the professorship of mathematics and astronomy in the state university of Missouri. Two years later he entered the confederate army as assistant adjutantgeneral, and was constantly promoted.

Froelich, Solomon

clergyman, author, was born May 29, 1750, in Red Hook, N. Y. He was the author of The Trial of Universal Charity by a Jury; and other religious works. He died Oct. 8, 1827, in New Jersey.

Frost, George

jurist, was born April 26, 1720, in New Castle, N. H. He was judge of the court of common pleas of Stafford county from 1773 to 1791; was for many years chief justice; and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1777 to 1779, and councilor from 1781 to 1784. He died June 21, 1796, in Durham, N. H.

Frost, Joel

congressman, was born in New York. He served in the state assembly in 1806 and 1808; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1823 to 1825.

Frost, John

soldier, jurist, was born May 5, 1738, in Kittery, Maine. He served in the revolutionary war, and attained the rank of colonel. He was appointed one of the justices of the court of sessions in York county, Maine, and was a member of the council of the governor of Massachusetts. He died in July, 1810, in Kittery, Maine.

Frost, Richard Graham

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 29, 1851, in St. Louis, Mo. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.

Frost, Rufus Smith

merchant, state senator, congressman, was born July 18, 1826, in Marlborough, N. H. He was state senator in 1871 and 1872; and was a member of the governor's council in 1873 and 1875. He was for many years a director of the North National bank of Boston, and a trustee of the Boston Five Cent Savings bank. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-fourth congress.

Frost, William Goodell

educator, clergyman, college president, was born July 2, 1854, in Le Roy, N. Y. During 1879-91 he was professor of Greek in the Oberlin college; and since 1892 has been president of Berea college, Ky.

Frothingham, Ellen

author, was born March 25, 1835, in Boston, Mass.

She has published several fine translations from Lessing, Auerbach, Goethe, and Grillparzer.

Frothingham, Richard

journalist, author, was born Jan. 31, 1812, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a journalist and local historian of Charlestown, Mass.; and the author of History of the Siege of Boston; The Rise of the Republic; History of Charlestown; Life of General Joseph Warren; and The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He died Jan. 20, 1880, in Charlestown, Mass.