George Washington Frost MELLEN

Male 1804 - 1875  (70 years)


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  • Name George Washington Frost MELLEN 
    Born 28 Jun 1804  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation
    • Chemist
    Fact 1841 
    • Wrote "An Argument On The Unconstitutionality Of Slavery", Boston: Saxton & Pierce
    Died 1875  [1
    Person ID I13196  An Armstrong & A Heffernan
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2008 

    Father Henry MELLEN,   b. 1757, , , Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1809, , , New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years) 
    Mother Martha Wentworth FROST,   b. 8 Nov 1769, New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jan 1835, Saco, York, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years) 
    Married 18 Dec 1791 
    Family ID F1439  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • An Unrecorded Winslow Homer Lithograph
      David Tatham
      American Art Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Winter, 1987) , pp. 75-76
      "is a portrait of the Boston chemist George Washington Frost Mellen (1804-1875), a prominent if some- what eccentric figure in the New England ..."

      ..."He was flamboyantly eccentric, if not mad."...

      ..."Henry B. Stanton, Random Recollections (New York: Harper, 1887), 70."

  • Sources 
    1. [S370] Jstor.org.


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