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Pruitt, William Montcalm

educator, was born Nov. 21, 1866, in Meridianville, Ala. He attended the State Normal and Industrial school of Huntsville, Ala.; and graduated from the Southland college, Arkansas, with the degree of B. S. He has attained success as a teacher in the public schools of Arkansas, and is now principal of the Normal department of Southland college.

PRUYN, JOHN VAN SCHAICK LAN- SING, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 22, 1811, in Albany, N. Y. In 1844 he was made a member of the board of regents, and in 1862 chancellor of the university of New York. He was a state senator in 1862, and at a special election in 1863 was elected a representative from New York to the thirtyeighth congress to fill a vacancy. He was re-elected to the fortieth congress. He died Nov. 21, 1877, in Clifton Springs, N. Y.