My Genealogy Hound

FRANK E. FROST, a contractor and builder in Donnelsville, Clark County, was born near this place, May 2, 1863, and being the only child of parents who possessed considerable means and desired their son to be well fitted for the battle of life, he received good school advantages. His boyhood was passed on a farm a mile and a half northwest of Donnelsville, and his early education obtained in the common schools, which at that period afforded instruction in many of the higher branches and were under the control of competent instructors. This was supplemented by a business course at Nelson’s Business College, at Springfield, after leaving which young Frost became a book-keeper for the American Manufacturing Company, of New Carlisle.

After acting in that capacity two years, Mr. Frost became a traveling representative of the Champion City Times for eighteen months, after which he took up his residence at Donnelsville. He is himself a carpenter, and consequently thoroughly competent to select material, secure reliable workmanship, and properly estimate everything connected with his business. His own residence is one of the handsomest in the entire township and is presided over by a lady who is a capable housewife and an intelligent and charming companion.

The wife of Mr. Frost was born in Claypool, Ind., and bore the maiden name of Lydia Keplinger. She is a daughter of Isaac and Anna (Heck) Keplinger, both of whom were born in Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio. The rites of wedlock between herself and our subject were celebrated at her home, May 13, 1886. In his political views Mr. Frost is a Democrat, and his religious convictions have led him to unite with the Lutheran Church. Honorable in his dealings with his fellow-men, reliable as a citizen and considerate in the closer relations of life, he is entitled to and receives the respect of all with whom he comes in contact.

Jacob Frost, the father of our subject, was born in Greene County, in 1806, but when a boy came to Clark County with his parents, who settled in Bethel Township. There he was reared to manhood and spent the remainder of his life, dying June 2, 1889. Farming was his chosen vocation, and by an industrious and prudent pursuit of the same he acquired considerable property, being self made in finances. He was a Democrat. His wife, formerly Miss Indiana Conrad, was born in Washington County, Md., became his wife in Bethel Township, in 1840, and is yet living.