John Holmes Prentiss
John Holmes Prentiss | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 19th district | |
In office March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841 | |
Preceded by | Sherman Page |
Succeeded by | Samuel S. Bowne |
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Born | Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. | April 17, 1784
Died | June 26, 1861 Cooperstown, New York, U.S. | (aged 77)
Resting place | Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, New York |
Political party | Democratic |
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Allegiance | United States |
Branch/service | New York Militia |
Rank | Colonel |
John Holmes Prentiss (April 17, 1784 – June 26, 1861) was an American newspaper publisher and politician in the U.S. state of New York. He represented New York's 19th congressional district in the 25th and 26th U.S. Congresses from 1837 to 1841.
Career
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, he attended local and private schools. He completed an apprenticeship as a printer, and then went into the newspaper business.
Prentiss became foreman of the
In addition to operating the newspaper, Prentiss served in the New York Militia, appointed by Governor DeWitt Clinton as inspector of the 16th Division with the rank of colonel. He was postmaster of Cooperstown from April 24, 1833, to February 17, 1837, and was vice president of the 1837 New York State Democratic convention in Albany.
Prentiss was elected as the
Death and burial
Prentiss retired in 1849 and continued to reside in Cooperstown. He died there on June 26, 1861, and was buried at Cooperstown's Lakewood Cemetery.
Family
John Holmes Prentiss was the third of nine children born to Dr. Samuel Prentiss and his wife Lucretia (
Their father, Dr. Samuel Prentiss was a prominent physician and served as a combat surgeon for his father, Colonel Samuel Prentice, during the American Revolutionary War. The Prentiss family were descendants of Captain Thomas Prentice, who emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1640s and served as a captain during King Philip's War.[1]
In 1815 Prentiss married Catherine Cox Morris (1795–1818), the daughter of General Jacob Morris and granddaughter of Lewis Morris. In 1828 he married Urilla Shankland (1799–1890). His children with his first wife included Mary Martha (1817–1854) and Catharine Lucretia (1817–1901). With his second wife his children included Alexander Shankland (1829–1854), John Holmes Jr. (1832–1923), Rachel Ann (1834–1874), and Charlotte Darbyshire (1837–1935).
References
External links
- United States Congress. "John Holmes Prentiss (id: P000509)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- John Holmes Prentiss at Find a Grave