L. L. Frost Paper Company
(From the Friday, January 31, 1902 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder)
The organization of the L. L. Frost Paper Company of Norwood was perfected Tuesday at the office of Attorney Fletcher in Norwood. Luther H. Frost, the organizer of this company, was elected president; Fred W. Frost, vice-president,
Frederic L. Dewey, treasurer, and Luther H. Frost, secretary. The other directors are B. H. Snell, Willis J. Fletcher and Sydney R. Phelps. Already $35,000 of the $50,000 capital stock has been subscribed and bonds for $20,000 have been sold. Mr. Frost is in New England, purchasing the remainder of the machinery. Mr. Frost expects to be making paper by April 1st. Luther H. Frost will act as traveling salesman.
(From the March 7, 1902 edition of the Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald)
The work of installing the paper machinery of the L. L. Frost Paper Company here is going on nicely. A large force of men are at work and have made a great transformation in the looks of things about the plant. The old saw mill machinery has been removed, and the main saw-mill building has been fitted up to receive the paper machine, which is now being placed in position, and already being connected up. Part of the box shop has been taken down and in its place a new building has been erected which contains the three large boilers and engine. The work has progressed right along in all kinds of weather, and there is no doubt but that the company will be able to be making paper by the first of June, as before stated. The mill will have a capacity of 30 tons of paper per day, and will be able to turn out either print or manilla paper. The work is under the personal supervision of Mr. Frost.--Norwood News
(From the June 20, 1902 edition of the Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald)
The starting up of the plant of the L. L. Frost Paper Co., at Norwood, commenced with the pulp grinder, which has been set up in the little saw mill building on the west side of the river, and pulp ground for the first time, Friday. The wood is reduced to pulp there and is pumped through a tube suspended on a steel cable, to the paper mill on the other side of the river. The paper machine, beaters, engines and boilers are all moving, and the finishing touches are being added preparatory to starting all of the machinery this week.
(From the Friday, October 17, 1902 edition of the St. Lawrence Herald).
From the experience of Luther L. Frost, president of the L. L. Frost Paper company of Norwood, formerly a resident of Potsdam, it would be well for people to either set a dog to watch over their wood piles, or sit up nights themselves to guard them. Soon after removing from Potsdam, Mr. Frost sold his residence on Market street to G. A Wilkinson, who was to take possession this fall. When he moved out, Mr. Frost left two tons of hard coal and a cord of wood in his cellar. Owing to the shortage of fuel, he came up Saturday with teams to remove the coal and wood to his Norwood residence, and found that the house had been entered and all of both kinds of fuel carried away. Judging from appearances, the fuel had been recently taken out through a small cellar window.
(From the November 28, 1902 edition of the Potsdam Herald)
A nice business is being done at the plant of the L. L. Frost paper company in Norwood. Last Tuesday 23,800 pounds of manilla paper in rolls were made, being put up, and on the following day 22,560 pounds of the same paper were made, being put up flat and in square sheets. The above will show what is being done in the Norwood paper mill, from one machine. The company keep their pulp grinders going constantly, but purchase a large part of this stock from other mills, largely from Chateaugay. The company own the Call water power and will shortly utilize it for grinding pulp. Forty hands are employed about the mills, which are a big benefit to Norwood--Norwood News.
(From the Wednesday, May 27, 1903 edition of the Canton Commercial Advertiser)
At 8:15 o'clock Tuesday night a fire alarm was sent in from the Norwood Sash, Door and Lumber company's mill at Norwood. The fire company responded promptly and soon had five streams on the building, and at 9 o'clock had the fire under control. The building and machinery is owned by the L. L. Frost Paper company, and is covered by insurance. The building is a total wreck. The origin of the fire is unknown. This is the first big fire in Norwood since the waterworks has been in operation and its operation gave perfect satisfaction. The damage to the building and machinery is estimated at $5,000.
(From the Friday, November 6, 1903 edition of the Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald).
The fine weather is being taken advantage of by the L. L. Frost Paper Co., in pushing the work of construction of the new dam and paper mill at this place. A large force of men are at work building the bulkhead and wing on the east side of the river. The foundation is well advanced for the new mill and the concrete work is advancing. The running of the present mill has not been interfered with, and it may be in operation during the winter. The kindling wood factory as been torn down, and nothing remains but the foundation, which will be made use of in constructing the new pumping house, which we understand is to be of concrete and will be fire proof. Mr. (not legible) the new mill and dam, and his experience in this line assures the company a first-class plant.--Norwood News
(From the Monday, January 5, 2004 edition of the Watertown Daily Times, in the Looking Backward column.
100 years ago
Jan. 5, 1904: Fire was discovered at 12:30 this morning in the mill of the L. L. Frost Paper Co., Norwood. The building and machinery therein were destroyed with the exception of the boilers and engine, which were slightly damaged. There were about three carloads of paper in the mill ready for shipment and a small quantity of sulphite pulp. The loss on building and machinery was covered by insurance and practically the only loss will be the stock which was made up and the sulphite pulp.
(From the Friday, March 11, 1904 edition of the Potsdam St. Lawrence Herald).
A large force of men are being set to work this week by the L. L. Frost Paper Co., at Norwood and this work of building the new paper mill and plant will continue until completed. Mr. E. W. Sayles, a civil engineer, of Watertown, was in town last week, doing some work for the Company, in locating the proposed new dam.
(From the January 6, 1905 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder).
The Frost Paper Plant In Operation
The L. L. Frost Paper plant at this place is now completed and the first sheet of paper came from their fine, new machine Friday afternoon. Everything starts off nicely, and the company have reason to be proud of their mill. Everything in and about the plant is new and of the very best manufactured, and the capacity of the mill with its one machine, is 30 tons of finished printing paper per day. Another machine is expected to be put in later. At the present time, while the big machine is being adjusted, it is turning out a sheet of printing paper ten feet wide and at the rate of 415 feet per minute. We congratulate the company on having so fine a mill, erected in so short a time, and surely our citizens will feel grateful to Mr. Frost for his efforts in securing this fine industry among us.--Norwood News
(From the March 31, 1905 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder)
C. O. Snell son of G. A. Snell of Norwood got hurt in the L. L. Frost paper mill. He stepped on to a reel of paper and slipped and his leg was drawn in between the reel and rod above, squeezing it badly but breaking no bones. It being in the night there was considerable hurrying to get a team to take him home and get a Doctor. He is quite comfortable but it will be some time before he can resume his work.
(From the Friday, August 18, 1905 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder).
The Frost Mill Changes Hands
The controlling stock of the L. L. Frost Paper Company of Norwood has changed hands and Charles H. Remington and Francis M. Hugo of Watertown, together with A. J. Lewthwaite of Norfolk, have brought another large mill under their management and control The transaction is an important one.
This plant commenced running last January and has a capacity of 35 tons of news per day. The plant will continue on this grade of paper, the output having been contracted for. It is equipped with one of the Foudrininer paper machines made by the Bagley & Sewall company of Watertown and is so arranged as to accommodate another. The pulp mill, which is close by is equipped with six grinders and has a capacity of thirty tons per day. The plant had the benefit of the whole of the Racquette river under a 25 foot head.
From the Friday, October 10, 1930 edition of the Potsdam Herald, under the column "25 years ago"-
October 1905--At a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees Tuesday a resolution was passed exempting from taxation for a term of five years, all buildings that L. L. Frost may see fit to erect in this place in which to manufacture paper and all property connected with the plant. Also extending to him the free use of fire hydrants in and about the proposed mill. Norwood News. This is the proper attitude toward prospective manufacturing plants.
(The following appeared in the Friday, May 18, 1906 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder):
L. L. Frost (died May 10, 1906)
The death of Mr. L. L. Frost occurred suddenly last Thursday morning. He had been unwell for a week, and was at the summer home of his son Fred near Liberty. He had apparently recovered however, and intended to return to the mill that morning. After breakfast, however, he complained of feeling ill, lay down on a lounge, and died very soon. Acute indigestion was considered the cause of his death. He was 58 years of age.
(The following appeared in the Friday, June 1, 1906 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder).
Mr. L. L. Frost
In concluding a long obituary of Mr. Frost the Ellenville Journal well speaks, as follows: Mr. Frost never sought political preferment, though more than once offered an election to the New Hampshire legislators. He was in every sense of the word, a self-made man, and yet he was one of "God's noblemen." The keynote of his life was unselfishness. No sacrifice was considered, or even realized, when another's happiness was concerned. No one in need was ever spurned by him. He had an unconquerable will, which knew no defeat; and yet possessed a happy, kindly disposition. From early manhood, he was a member and an active and consistent supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a man of untarnished reputation, of spotless integrity and consistent Christian life.
Mr. Front is survived by a widow, Harriet L., two sons--Frederic W., a counselor at law, of Wall Street, New York, and Luther H., was succeeds his father as business manager of the Frost and Sons Paper Co.; and one daughter, Lorena M. Frost who is connected with the College Settlement in New York. He leaves also one brother, Mr. Leroy B. Frost, of Brattleboro, Vermont.
(This obituary was from the Friday, March 19, 1909 edition of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder).
Harriet Lucina Frost
(October 31, 1846-March 6, 1909)
Harriet Lucina Hayward, the widow of the late Lorenzo L. Frost, died at the home of her son, Fredric W. Frost, at 175 Eighth Avenue, Borough of Brooklyn, New York City, upon Saturday, March 6th, 1909. She had been spending a portion of the winter visiting with her daughter, Miss Lorena M. Front, in Summit, N.J., and with her son at the above address, where she was taken sick with pneumonia upon the 22d day of February, 1909.
Mrs. Frost was born October 31st, 1846, in Alexandria N.H., and was descended from the sturdiest of New England ancestry. She was the youngest daughter of Jonas Reed and Marcia (Sleeper) Hayward.
Harriet L. Hayward was married upon October 31st, 1876, to Lorenzo L. Frost, who died on May 10, 1906. She was an ideal wife and mother. A woman of firm convictions and determined will power, although for many years of rather frail physique. She wielded a sweet, yet controlling influence over the lives of her husband and children. Her husband, Lorenzo L. Frost, was engaged all his life in the business of manufacturing paper, having descended from a family of paper manufacturers. He was part owner and manager in the Racquette River Paper Company at Potsdam, N.Y. and organizer and manager of the L. L. Frost Paper Company, at Norwood, N.Y. After destruction by fire this mill was rebuilt and sold to Northern N.Y. capitalists. At the time of his death, May 10, 1906, Mr. Frost was the president and manager of the Frost & Sons Paper Company at Napanoch, N.Y. During all these years of changing scenes and vicissitudes of life it was the influence and unflinching strength of purpose of the sweet spirited and noble woman that was his greatest inspiration and source of power. She was from early womanhood, and in every community where she resided a member of and an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Frost is survived by a son, Fredric Worthen Frost, a lawyer of New York City, a daughter, Lorena May Frost, who is director of a kindergarten in Summit, New Jersey, and a son, Luther Hayward Frost, manager of the Frost & Sons Paper Company at Napanoch, Ulster County, New York.
Prayers were held at the home of Mr. Fredric W. Frost and the funeral services were at the home in Napanoch, on March 10th, 1909, the Rev. Bradford P. Raymond, D. D., L. L. D. formerly president of Wesleyan University, officiating, assisted by the pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, the Rev. Adonis G. Frear. The interment took place in the family plot in the Fantinekill cemetery, at Ellenville, N.Y.
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