Frost-Johnson Lumber Co.

Enoch W. Frost began lumbering with a small portable sawmill as early as 1881 in the region around Texarkana.

In 1907, Edwin Ambrose Frost, son of Enoch, in conjunction with Clarence D. Johnson, organized the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company which merged with Frost-Trigg.

Clarence D. Johnson, who was born in New York, came south and began his sawmill career working as a trimmer in a Louisiana mill in 1885.

Johnson worked his way up through the mill and eventually became the first vice-president of the Frost-Johnson Lumber Company.

Frost in 1950, the stockholders voted in 1952 to sell to Olin Industries who shortly thereafter sold to the International Paper Company.