Solano County Biographies

JAMES FROST, M. D.

Transcribed by Linda McDowell

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arrived in California in 1856 and settled as an apothecary on Mare Island, where 
he continued till 1866, when he removed to Vallejo and opened his present place 
of business.  Doctor Frost graduated at the Medical Department of the State 
University in 1877, and is now one of Vallejo�s practicing physicians.  On May 
18, 1878, he was elected to fill the high position of President of the Board of 
Health, which honor he still retains, with credit alike to himself and his 
fellow citizens; is also examining physician to the United Order of Workmen, as 
well as holding the same position to the Knights of Pythias.  The subject of our 
memoir married on February 6, 1859, the daughter of John and Mary Foley of 
Albany, New York, by who he has six children, Arthur H., Edmund F., Mary E., 
Amelia G., Frances J., and Elizabeth E.
 
History of Solano County - San Francisco, Cal., Wood, Alley & Co., East Oakland, 
1879, page 352