[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the last. His was the serious, yet serene and cheerful mind, that is (he source of every virtue, and the only character that does honor to humanity. Hi' inherited and transmitted those sterling qualities of the early settlers of New Kngland, that are yet the potent though silent influence in giving form and character to communities all over our land, even to the remotest frontier. Blessed be their memory. John W. Frost married MissPhebe Cocks, daughter of Adonijah Cocks, of Croton, a woman of rare and unassuming merit, and in her maturity an acceptable counselor and exhorter in the Society of Friends. Their sons are tyrus, who, for forty years or more, continued the mercantile business established by his father in Croton; was for many years director and then president of Westchester County National Bank; always an earnest and consistent Whig and Republi-can, he was a very tower of strength to his party in all political contests, and he now enjoys an enviable weight of character and social influence, the reward of an upright life. Orrin, who has continued the brick business suc-cessfully, employing about one hundred men, and whose solid worth as a business man, an employer and a citizen, is recognized by all.