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George D Prentice

I lived from 1802-1870. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

George Denison Prentice was born in Preston, Connecticut on December 18, 1801. At the age of 15, was according to William Turner Coggeshall, appointed principal of a local public school. Prentice seems to have survived his youthful tenure as a school principal, attended college, graduated from Brown University in 1823, and then took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1827. In 1828, he became editor of the New England Weekly Review. In the summer of 1830, Prentice left the Review in the hands of John G. Whittier and set off to visit the South, drawn primarily by his admiration for Henry Clay. (Prentice would publish a biography of Clay in 1831). After these travels, Prentice settled in Louisville, Kentucky and in November of that year established the Louisville Journal which he then served as editor. Prentice, in addition to being a newsman, continued his literary interest as a writer of both verse and prose.

My poetry

  • The Closing Year
    'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now
    Is brooding like a gentle spirit o'er
    86 lines
  • Memories
    ONCE more, once more, my Mary dear,
    I sit by that lone stream,
    32 lines
  • New England
    CLIME of the brave! the high heart’s home,
    Laved by the wild and stormy sea!
    24 lines

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