Robert Lee Frost [1874-1963] was born in San Francisco on 26 March 1874. His parents William Prescott Frost and Isabel Moodie met when they were both working as teachers. Robert was the eldest of their two children. Jeanie was his sister.

In 1885 following the death of his father, the family moved in with his grandfather in Lawrence Massachusetts. Eleven-year-old Robert, a California boy, grew to become New England's most famous poet..