Fromentin, Eligius
lawyer, jurist, United States senator. He was a senator of the United States from Louisiana from 1813 to 1819; and in 1821 was judge of the criminal court of New Orleans, and was appointed judge of the western district of Florida. He died Oct. 6, 1822, in New Orleans, La.
FRONABARGER, BENJAMIN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, educator, clergyman, college president, was born March 10, 1860, in Butler county, Ala. He received his education at the Masonic Male and Female institute, and at the Eagleville college, Tennessee. He has attained success as a baptist clergyman, and has filled pastorates in four churches. Since 1885 he has been president of the Springtown Male and Female institute, Texas, and still fills that position.
FROST, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, botanist, author, was born in 1806, in Brattleboro, Vt. He devoted his leisure hours to astronomy, geology, mineralogy, meteorology, and botany, especially the last named study, to which he gave the last half of his life. He was joint author with Edward Tuckerman of a Catalogue of Plants growing without Cultivation within Thirty Miles of Amherst College.
He died in 1880.