Lesley FROST

1899 - 1983  (84 years)

• Name	Lesley FROST
  Birth	28 Apr 1899	Lawrence, Essex County, MA
  Gender	Female
  Social Security No.	579-14-7324
  Death	9 Jul 1983	Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT
  Burial	Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Bennington County, VT
  Notes	(1) "Robert Frost," from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Elinor and Robert Frost had six children: son Elliott (1896–1900, died of cholera); daughter Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899–1983); son Carol (1902–1940); daughter Irma (1903–1967); daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth); and daughter Elinor Bettina (died just one day after her birth in 1907). Only Lesley and Irma outlived their father. (2) http://www.izaak.unh.edu/specoll/mancoll/lfrost.htm#bio: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Lesley Frost Ballantine, or Lesley Frost, as she always liked to be known, was the second child of Robert and Elinor Frost. She was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on April 28, 1899. The Frosts moved to a farm in Derry, New Hampshire in the fall of 1900 when she was sixteen months old, and her early childhood there is documented in New Hampshire's Child: The Derry Journals of Lesley Frost (1969). She attended Wellesley College in 1917, but left after one year, finding college life regimented and pointless, and did wartime work in an airplane factory instead. She later briefly attended Barnard College and the University of Michigan, but again did not adjust well to academic life. By the spring of 1924 she was managing a bookstore, The Open Book, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts with her sister Marjorie. There she met, and in 1928 married, James Dwight Francis, son of a wealthy industrialist, but the marriage lasted only a few years. The couple had two daughters, Elinor, born in 1929, and Lesley Lee, born in June of 1931. In the 1930s Lesley Frost taught at Rockford College in Illinois and at the King-Smith Studio for Girls in Washington, D.C. From 1945 to 1947 she was cultural officer and director of the United States Information Library in Madrid ("Casa Americana"), operated by the Office of War Information. The Library later became the American Library in Madrid with Frost in charge. She was the first woman sent to Latin America by the State Department to lecture on American literature (1948). In 1967 she founded La Escuela de la Tahona, a summer language school, in La Granja, near Madrid, where she had a home. In 1952 she married Dr. Joseph W. Ballantine, head of the State Department's Far Eastern Division under Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Ballantine died in 1973. Lesley Frost gained an international reputation for her correspondence with her father's friends and for her articles and lectures on his work. She also wrote several children's books, including Really Not Really and Digging Down to China, a novel, Murder At Large, and a book of poems Going On Two. She served as the first chairman of the Robert Frost Foundation and oversaw the restoration of the Frost farm in Derry, New Hampshire. Lesley Frost died July 9, 1983 in Fairfield, Connecticut aged 84. (3) Social Security Death Index: Name: Lesley Frost SSN: 579-14-7324 Last Residence: 06430 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States of America Born: 28 Apr 1899 Died: Jul 1983 State (Year) SSN issued: District of Columbia (Before 1951) (4) www.findagrave.com: Lesley Frost Ballantine Birth: Apr. 28, 1899 Death: Jul. 9, 1983 Family links: Spouse: James Dwight Francis (1897 - 1988) Burial: Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont, USA Created by: Spydergal 2011 Record added: Jul 14, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 73346947
  Person ID	I15236	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Robert Lee FROST,   b. 26 Mar 1874, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA d. 29 Jan 1963, Boston, Suffolk County, MA (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Elinor Miriam WHITE,   b. 25 Oct 1873, Acton, Middlesex County, MA d. 20 Mar 1938, Gainesville, Alachua County, FL (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	28 Dec 1895	Lawrence, Essex County, MA
  Notes	(1) Source: Anna Kasper .
  Family ID	F6818	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	James Dwight FRANCIS,   b. 13 Jan 1897, Pittsfield, Berkshire County, MA d. 24 Jan 1988, Edgartown, Dukes County, MA (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	1928
  Divorce	Abt 1932
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F6825	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Joseph William BALLANTINE,   b. 30 Jul 1888, Ahmadnagar, Maharashtra, India d. 29 Jan 1973, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	23 Aug 1952
  Family ID	F6826	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

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