City: Memphis
FROST, John T., retired banker and manufacturer; born City of Limerick, Ireland, Jan. 6, 1845; son of Thomas and Honore (Quain) FROST, who located in Chicago in 1848; was educated in the public and private schools of Chicago and was for three years a student at University St. Mary’s of the Lake, Chicago; after being for some time engaged in the manufacturer of candy in Chicago for the jobbing trade, removed his plant to Memphis in April, 1866, where he continued in the same line of business and in 1882 added the manufacture of biscuits for the jobbing trade, continuing in these lines until 1889 when he sold his business and good will to The American Biscuit Co., of which company he was a director until its absorption by The National Biscuit Co., 1899; was for many years identified with The Memphis Street Railway Co.; was a director and officer of The Memphis and Equitable Gas Cos., until their absorption by The Consolidated Gas and Electric Co.; was a director and afterward president of The Memphis City Bank, one of the organizers and stockholders of The Carruthers-Jones Shoe Co., and is now a director of The Security Bank & Trust Co., and of The State National Bank; is an independent Democrat and a member of the Catholic church.
