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FRIENDS ACADEMY WAS found by Gideon Frost in 1876 at the age of 78. Frost was a business man who also had an interest in science. He married Mary U. Willits at the age of twenty-five; their only son, Leonard, died in 1870.
Frost fervently believed in the Quaker way of life, speaking out against war and capital punishment. His personal reasons for establishing Friends College (as it was called) "During many years I had a desire to establish a seminary of learning in which the children of Friends and others similarly sentimented could receive literary and scientific instruction upon principles in accordance with the teaching of the Scriptures..."
On January 8, 1876, Gideon Frost purchased six acres of land across from the Matinecock Meeting House for the sum of $688.95.
More of the Friends Academy history will be posted soon...
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