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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.