Preble, Harriet – Prescott, Oliver
Preble, Harriet
educator, author, was born in 1795 in England. She published translations into French prose of Bulwer's poem The Rebel, with an histerical introduction, and of James Fenimore Cooper's Notions of the Americans, and left several works in manuscript. She died Feb. 4, 1854, in West Manchester, Pa.
Preble, Henry
educator, author, was born in 1853 in Maine. He is an educator who was professor of Latin at Harvard university. He has edited a revised edition of Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, and several volumes of Latin classics.
Preble, Jedediah
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born in 1707 in Wells, Maine. In 1774 he was commissioned brigadier-general by the provincial congress of Massachusetts, and he was afterward made major-general, but refused on account of age. He was judge of the court of common pleas in 1778, and a member of the state senate in 1780. He died March 11, 1784, in Portland, Maine.
Prendergast, Davis Mcgee
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 16, 1816, in Shelbyville, Tenn. He attended the Cumberland college, Ky.; and the East Tennessee university of Knoxville.
He served as a member of the tenth and thirteenth state legislatures of Texas; and filled with distinction the office of judge of the thirteenth judicial district of Texas. He is a successful lawyer of Mexia, Texas; a decided prohibitionist; and in 1892 was nominated by that party for governor of Texas.
Prentice, George
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1834 in Massachusetts. He was a methodist clergyman, professor of modern languages at Wesleyan university; and the author of Life of Bishop Gilbert Haven; Rome and Italy at the Opening of the Ecumenical Council, from the French of Pressensé; and Life of Wilbur Fisk.
Prentice, George A
lawyer, jurist, was born May 25, 1844, in Frankfort, Ky. During 1858-61 he attended the Kentucky Military institute, and received a thorough education.
For a quarter of a century he has been actively engaged in the practice of law; has been county attorney; served with distinction as county judge; and is now one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Morganfield, Ky.
He has filled several public positions of honor,
Prentice, George Denison
journalist, author, poet, was born Dec. 18, 1802, in Preston, Conn. In 1823 he graduated from Brown university; and in 1829 was admitted to the bar, but never practiced. In 1825 he became editor of the Connecticut Mirror; in 1828 became editor of the New England Weekly Review; and during 1831-70 was editor of the Louisville Journal. He was widely known for his witticisms. He was the author of Life of Henry Clay; and a volume of selections from his writings entitled Prenticeana. He died Jan. 22, 1870, in Louisville, Ky. A collection of his poems was published in 1876.
Prentis, Robert Riddick
lawyer, jurist, was born May 24, 1855, in Albemarle county, Va. During 1883-85 he was mayor of Suffolk, Va.; presidential elector in 1892; and is now judge of the first judicial circuit court of Virginia.
Prentiss, Albert Nelson
educator, author, was born May 22, 1836, in Cazenovia, N. Y. In 1868 he was elected professor of botany and horticulture in the Michigan Agriculture college, which position he now holds. He has written a monograph on the hemlock, and other botanical papers.
Prentiss, Benjamin Mayberry
soldier, was born Nov. 23, 1819, in Belleville, W. Va. He organized a company of volunteers for service in the civil war, and his bravery earned him the sobriquet of The Hero of Shiloh, and he was promoted to brigadier-general of United States volunteers.
Prentiss, Charles
journalist, author, was born in October, 1774, in Reading, Mass. He was a journalist of Washington; and the author of Fugitive Essays in Prose and Verse; Poems; History of the United States; Trial of Calvin and Hopkins; and Lives of Robert Treat Paine and General William Eaton. He died Oct. 20, 1820, in Brimfield, Mass.
PRENTISS, MRS. ELIZABETH [PAY- SON], author, was born Oct. 26, 1818, in Portland, Maine. She was a popular writer of religious fiction whose Stepping Heavenward has been widely read. Among her many other works are, Pemaquid; The Home at Graylock; Aunt Jane's Hero; The Flower of the Family; Little Susy Series; and Fred, Maria and Me. She died Aug. 13, 1878, in Dorset, Vt.
Prentiss, George Lewis
clergyman, educator, author, was born May 12, 1816, in Gorham, Maine. He is a presbyterian clergyman of New York city; and professor of pastoral theology in Union seminary from 1873. He is the author of Memoir of Seargent Prentiss; Life of Elizabeth Prentiss Our National Bane; The Problem of the Veto Power; The Argument between Union Seminary and the General Assembly; and Fifty Years of Union Seminary.
Prentiss, John Holmes
journalist, congressman, was born April 17, 1784, in Worcester, Mass. In 1808 he established the Freeman's Journal in Cooperstown, N.
Y., which he edited with ability and success until 1849. He was a representative from New York to the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth congresses. He died June 26, 1864, in Cooperstown, N. Y.
Prentiss, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born March 31, 1782, in Stonington, Conn. In 1824 and 1825 he represented Montpelier, Vt., in the state legislature; and in 1829 was elected chief justice of the supreme court of the state. He was a senator in congress from Vermont from 1831 to 1842. In 1842 he was appointed judge of the federal district court in Vermont, which office he held at the time of his death. He died Jan. 15, 1857, in Montpelier, Vt. was
Prentiss, Seargent Smith
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, born Sept. 30, 1808, in Portland, Maine.
He was elected to the Mississippi state legislature in 1835; and in 1837 was chosen a representative in congress from Mississippi for the years 1838 and 1839. As a jury orator he was acknowledged as having no equal in the southwestern states. He died July 1, 1850, in Longwood, Miss.
Prentiss, Theodore
lawyer, state legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1815, in Montpelier, Vt. He served in the Wisconsin legislature, and was three times elected mayor of Watertown.
Prentiss, William A
merchant, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born in 1799 in Massachusetts. In 1836 he moved to Milwaukee, Wis.; in 1847 became a justice of the peace; was four years a member of the upper branch of the territorial legislature; and was its president in 1840. In 1858 he became mayor of Milwaukee.
Prescott, Albert Benjamin
chemist, author, was born Dec. 12, 1832, in Hastings, N. Y. He is a chemist who has been dean of the School of Pharmacy at Michigan university from 1876; and the author of Outlines of Proximate Organic Analysis; Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors; Organic Analysis; and Qualitative Analysis.
Prescott, Benjamin
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 16, 1687, in Concord, Mass. He was the author of Examination of Certain Remarks; Letter to Joshua Gee; Letter to Rev. George Whitefield; and A Free and a Calm Consideration of the Unhappy Misunderstandings and Debates between Great Britain and the American Colonies. He died May 28, 1777, in Danvers, Mass.
Prescott, Benjamin F
journalist, lawyer, governor, was born Feb. 26, 1833, in Epping, N. H. He became associate editor of the Independent Democrat newspaper of Concord, N. H., and continued as such until 1866. He was elected secretary of state in 1872, 1873, 1875 and 1876. He was elected governor of New Hampshire in 1877 and re-elected in 1878.
Prescott, Cyrus D
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 1836, in New Hartford, N. Y. He was a member of the board of aldermen of Rome, N. Y., from 1874 to 1876; a member of the state house of representatives in 1878; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Prescott, George Bartlett
electrician, author, was born Sept. 16, 1830, in Kingston, N. H. In 1873 he visited Europe in the interest of the Western Union Telegraph company for the purpose of investigating the various systems of telegraphy in operation there, and found many important objects of recommendation, which he patented in the United States and Great Britain. He has published History, Theory and Practice of the Electric Telegraph; The Proposed Union of the Telegraph and Postal Systems (New York); The Government and the Telegraph; and Electricity and the Electric Telegraph. He died in 1894.
Prescott, Oliver
soldier, jurist, was born April 27, 1731, in Groton, Mass.
In 1778 he was appointed third major-general of militia in Massachusetts, and in 1781 he became second major-general, but soon afterward he resigned. From 1779 till his death he was judge of probate for Middlesex county. He died Nov. 17, 1804, in Groton, Mass.
Prescott, Oliver
physician, author, was born April 4, 1762, in Groton, Mass. He removed to Newburyport in 1811, practicing successfully there till his death. He was often a representative in the legislature, and was a founder, trustee, and treasurer of Groton academy. He died Sept. 26, 1827, in Newburyport.