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.