Samuel H. Frost
Samuel H. Frost (August 2, 1818 New York City; died c. 1874) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Samuel Frost and Catherine (Bedell) Frost. He attended White Plains Academy. About 1840, he removed to a farm on Staten Island. He married Louisa Ketteltas, and they had several children.
He entered politics as a
Superintendent of the Poor of Richmond County for twelve years. He was a member of the New York State Senate (1st D.) in 1870 and 1871
.
By 1874, an article in The New York Times referred to Frost as already being deceased.[1] In 1877, incarcerated former political boss William M. Tweed named Frost as one of the politicians who had engaged in corruption during his political tenure.[2]
References
- ^ "Burglars on Staten Island", The New York Times (March 27, 1874), p. 2.
- ^ "Tweed's Tales", Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express (October 11, 1877), p. 1.
Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 444)
- Life Sketches of Executive Officers, and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York, Vol. III by H. H. Boone & Theodore P. Cook (1870; pg. 78f)
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