Royal Harwood Frost
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Royal Harwood Frost (25 February 1879–11 May 1950) was born in Salem, Massachusetts
Salem, Massachusetts
Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,407 at the 2000 census. It and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County...
to Albinus Finney Frost and Emma Jane Richardson, the fourth son of a family of ten.
He married Caroline Eliza Mayhew
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with whom he had three daughters (Caroline Frost, Martha Richardson Frost and Barbara Frost) and two sons (Royal Harwood Frost Jr. and William Mayhew Frost).
Frost was an astronomical assistant at the Harvard College Observatory
Harvard College Observatory
The Harvard College Observatory is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and was founded in 1839...
from 1896 to 1908, under the directorship of Edward Charles Pickering
Edward Charles Pickering
Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering.Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations .Pickering attended Boston Latin School, and received his B.S. from...
. From 1902 to 1905 he worked at the Arequipa
Arequipa
Arequipa is the capital city of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 836,859 it is the second most populous city of the country...
station in Peru
Peru
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using the 24-inch f/5.6 Bruce photographic refractor
Catherine Wolfe Bruce
Catherine Wolfe Bruce was a noted American philanthropist and patroness of astronomy.She was the daughter of the famous type founder George Bruce and Catherine Wolfe...
, made by Alvan Clark & Sons
Alvan Clark & Sons
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and completed in 1893. His observations of nebulae (following DeLisle Stewart
DeLisle Stewart
DeLisle Stewart was an American astronomer.In 1896 he became a staff member of Harvard College Observatory, and from 1898 to 1901 he worked at that observatory's station at Arequipa, Peru, where he took the photographic plates that William Henry Pickering used to discover Saturn's moon Phoebe...
) using four-hour plates were published in the Harv. Ann. 60, 179 (1908). He discovered 454 new objects, included in the IC II (Second Index Catalogue of Nebulae Found in the Years 1895 to 1907; with Notes and Corrections to the New General Catalogue and to the Index Catalogue for 1888 to 1894, Mem. Roy. Astron. Soc., Vol. 59, Part 2, p. 105, 1908). When moving the Bruce telescope to Boyden station in Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein
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, South Africa
South Africa
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in 1926, Harvard offered him a job, but he did not go. Instead he started a dairy farm in Tingo, Peru.
He later returned to Ft. Worth, Texas, to work for an oil company doing accounting. Later still he moved to Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana
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. He is buried in the Forest Park Cemetery at Shreveport, Louisiana.