He Graduated Co-valedictorian With His High School Sweetheart

William Prescott Frost Jr., a journalist, and Isabelle Moodie welcomed Robert Frost into the world in San Francisco, California. His mother was a Scottish immigrant, and his father was descended from Nicholas Frost of Tiverton, Devon, England, who had arrived to New Hampshire in 1634 on the Wolfrana. Samuel Appleton, one of the first residents of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Rev. George Phillips, one of the first residents of Watertown, Massachusetts, were the ancestors of Frost.

Together with his sister Jeanie, Robert Frost attended high school in Lawrence, Massachusetts. One of the interesting facts about Robert Frost is he displayed great promise when he was young, to the point where he graduated with Elinor White, his high school sweetheart, as valedictorian. But during college, they split up. Elinor chose St. Lawrence University, while Frost enrolled at Dartmouth College. He was able to publish “My Butterfly: An Elegy” in the weekly literary journal “The Independent” during his brief time at Dartmouth.

He spent two months at Dartmouth College, which was a sufficient time for him to be admitted into the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Frost went back to his hometown to work as a teacher and to help his mother with her class of rowdy boys. He also helped his mother deliver newspapers and maintain carbon arc lamps in a factory. He felt that poetry was his genuine calling and did not appreciate these occupations.

Robert Frost married Elinor in 1895 after graduating from Dartmouth. He worked in farming and some teaching to provide for his four kids. Robert Frost's ability to resume his college studies at Harvard University is an intriguing fact, but he eventually had to quit out for medical reasons.