2017-05-17-Keepapitchinin-Allen Frost

From: Allen Frost: “The Privilege of Laboring on a Temple in Our Own Land”

By Ardis E. Parshall, 17 May 2017

Allen Frost: “The Privilege of Laboring on a Temple in Our Own Land”

George Allen Frost – he went by Allen, his father’s name – was born in London in 1838. His father died when he was 6, and after living for a time with his grandmother, he passed several years at an orphan asylum where, he says, he received “a good practical education.” Relatives raised the funds to send him to America to live with an uncle, who found him training in the printing and engraving business.

“My uncle was a Latter-day Saint and was president of the branch of the Church at that place,” (the village of Haverstraw, New York). In 1860, Allen fell ill and was bedridden for several weeks – time he passed reading Mormon literature, and becoming converted. “I applied for baptism, and was wrapped in a blanket and with some assistance was enabled to walk through the garden to a large mill race that supplied the factory with water. I was here baptized on the 3rd day of October 1860.” He soon made his way to Utah, married, and began raising a family.

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