Frow, John G.

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Life span:

07/13/1834 to 03/24/1864

Dickinson Connection:

Class of 1853

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Life Summary

Full name:

John G. Frow

Place of Birth:

Mifflintown, PA

Birth Date Certainty:

Exact

Death Date Certainty:

Exact

Gender:

Male

Race:

White

Sectional choice:

North

Origins:

Free State

Family:

James Frow (father), Jane Ann (mother)

Education:

Dickinson (Carlisle College)

University of Pennsylvania

Occupation:

Military

Doctor, Dentist or Nurse

Relation to Slavery:

White non-slaveholder

Military:

Union Army

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John G. Frow (Dickinson Chronicles)

Scholarship

John Frow was born on July 13, 1834 in Mifflintown, Blaine Perry County, Pennsylvania to James and Jane Ann Frow. He entered Dickinson as a sophomore in 1850 but retired in 1852. As a student he was a member of the Union Philosophical Society as well as the Zeta Psi fraternity. Frow received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1856 and became a physician in Mifflintown.

Frow enlisted in the U.S. Army and became a surgeon with the U.S. Volunteers from 1861 until 1863. He died on March 24, 1864 at Mifflintown.

John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “John G. Frow,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/f/ed_frowJ.htm.

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