Frow, John G.

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Class of 1853
    Full name
    John G. Frow
    Place of Birth
    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

    John G. Frow (Dickinson Chronicles)

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    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.
    How to Cite This Page: "Frow, John G.," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5690.