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EDWIN BRANT FROST, who died on May 14, was born on July 18, 1866, at Brattlebro, Vermont. His father, Carlton Pennington Frost, was the seventh in descent from ancestors who had left Ipswich, Suffolk, in 1634 in order “to avoid the more savage oppression of England”. They were shipwrecked off Yarmouth, but the family started again in 1635, and after a voyage of fifty-three days they reached Boston, and settled in New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Edwin Brant Frost derived his second name from the wife of his paternal grandfather Benjamin, who had married Mary Catherine Brant. His early home was in the green hills of the valley of the Connecticut River. His father was surgeon-major for some months in the Civil War and for three years after it, and in 1871 he was called to a professorial chair in medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Thus it came about that his two sons spent their learning years at Dartmouth College.
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Prof. Edwin B. Frost. Nature 136, 211–212 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136211a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136211a0