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.