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    • William Goodell Frost

    American scholar (1854–1938)

    William Goodell Frost (July 2, 1854 – September 11, 1938) was an American educator who served as the third president of Berea College from 1890 to 1920, and a scholar of the Greek language. He is credited with coining the phrase "Appalachian American."[1][2]

    Biography

    William Goodell Frost was born in Le Roy, New York on July 2, 1854, to Rev. Lewis P. Frost, and Maria Goodell Frost, abolitionist conductors on the Underground Railroad.[3] His grandfather William Goodell was also a notable abolitionist and temperance supporter, and Frost's aunt, Lavinia Goodell, was the first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin.[1]

    Frost graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1876 and served as a professor of Greek at Oberlin and was ordained as a Congregationalist minister.[3] Frost turned down the presidency of Berea College in 1889 before accepting in 1892. While serving