Prescott, John H. (1840-1891)

Name:

Prescott, John H. (1840-1891)

Title:

Private, Company F, 12th Rgiment New Hampshire Volunteers, August 10, 1862
Commissary Sergeant, 12th Rgiment New Hampshire Volunteers, September 20, 1862
First Lieutenant, 12th Rgiment New Hampshire Volunteers, December 1, 1863
Captain, Company I, 12th Rgiment New Hampshire Volunteers, September 2, 1864
County Attorney, Salina County, Kansas. 1866
Clerk, House of Representatives, State of Kansas, 1867
Member, State Senate, State of Kansas, 1869- 1873
Judge, 14th Judicial District, State of Kansas, 1872-1885
Member, Episcopal Church, Salina, KS
President, St. John's Military School, Salina, KS
Member, John A. Logan Post No. 127, Grand Army of the Republic, Salina, KS
Republican
Prohibitionist

Other Names:

Prescott, John Henry

Born:

10/14/1840

Birthplace:

Pittsfield, NH

Died:

07/05/1891

Death Location:

Salina, KS

Residence:

Pittsfield, NH 1840-1862
Junction City, KS 1865
Salina, KS 1866-1891

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Attorney
Land Agent
Farmer

Father:

Prescott, John

Mother:

Clark, Mary

Spouse:

Mary Emma Lee, January 6, 1869, Manhattan, KS

Children:

Henry Lee, born April 13, 1870
Fred Clark, born September 29, 1871
Charles Frank, born January 30, 1874
Maude, born November 14, 1876
Edward Scott, born January 17, 1879
Margaret, born February 3, 1888

Notes:

Augustus D. Ayling, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866. (Concord, New Hampshire: Ira C. Evans, 1895), 637.

William E. Connelly, A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. (Chicago, illinois: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918),

William Prescott, The Prescott Memorial: Or a Genealogical Memoir of the Prescott Families in America, In Two Parts. (Boston, Massachusetts: Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1870), 422-423.

The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men. (Chicago, Illinois: S. Lewis, 1879), 428-430.