Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-01-27

erssss .. pfrr-rcx The veteran
saisss ef t's al ,LowisriHe .Lp1 3sssd
:. t.sre-sasase his .oa. Czrssea y
Pseusise, sew nile. below Lssissilsr
On ssssniay last He had bsss weak
SD ssshle soe . scar 81 mnre. aid bad
bes1 eouko<d 20 his bed for ahous s~eek.
Mr.. Prentice vas bo~n 10 Preston.
Conn. Decsrnler 2. 1903. aud was en-
~qpen'Iy six'y-six years snd nearly s-o
mouths old. He graduated At Brown
University st IN early age. asd ii nine
'een became principal 81 tigh school in
Hartford. Coon after beeoninr Of age
he took charge Of AID edited. With John
@. Whittier, the New England Resiee.
published 10 Hartford. Gisn WeIles
vas editor Of another psrer IN the sAme
city .. the time. and bitter warfare Of
personalities ragged between the tvo. lie
soon tired Of this life. however, and re-
moved TO Louisville. Ky. when in 1881
hr established the Lomscil,e Journal. Of
which he was chief proprietor and editor
until about two years ago. At that time
his wife died. and rs in previous days Of
insolvency he had made over all bis pro-
perty in the PIPER 10 her. shfR her
dc,thbed lcft I; 20 their son Clarence.-
Tie 10 bis turn sold il out 10 Walter W.
Haldcman, who merged il with his own
paper under the title Of the Louisville
Cosrier- Journal. Dir. Prentice was thus
deprived of his proprietorship. but was
retained on tho new paper as writer
lie was au old line wing from the first,
ard was an intimate friend Of Henry
Clay. at whose residence, Ashland, near
Lexington. he resided for some time pre-
pairing q biography Of the great states
man. To ospouscd Know Nothiusism
at its inception aud continued to advo.
cate it until the defeat Of Bell and Ever
cit and the election of Lincoln to the
Presidency. When the secession move
ment came on he strongly opposed it, al
though his two sons-his only children
went to tho southern army. Onc OF
thcm was killed while with a s,crmins
party at Augusta. Ky. The other
Clarence j. Prcn,ice-is still living
AT the close Of the war. aud up to his
death. MIR. Prentice followed the lead of
President johnson and advocated the un-
conditional re-sdmission of all the States
and the pardon Of ali the rebels.
As an editor he was tamcus !or his wit
y paragraphs and for his sarcasm and in
vootivc. lie was strongly partisan, and
would advocate his partisan measures by
>haEr and piercing onslaughts on oppo-
ling leaders. He has frequently been in
volvoi in personal recnuntrcs with the Oh
jeets ofhis wrath, andhas often come on, .:
them with dangerous wounds. With ri
val editors in the same city he was coz
i;nusl'v at ODDS.
His poetry was Of high order. His
Closing Year" and Lanes at Ny Moth
er's Grave" were probably his best, tu;
he wrote lines up 10 within the last six
mouths. His b,oks were not verv sue.
ces>ful. ard h. wrote Int few. He was
always highly respected By tie citizens
At Louisville. ana had troops Of f.iends,
as well as iha, which should accompany
old sge-honor, love, obedience.
In person, Mr.. Prentice was short but
sseut, with q round face and veil eu: fea-
tnros. His right arm was paralyzei snd
he was compelled to employ Al amanucn-
SIS. He married Miss Henrietta Ben
ham, sister Of the Calhoun Benham who
figured as second 70 the Terry Broder-
lex dnel, and had two sons, OF whom We
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