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James H. Prentice

Manufacturer (Hats)

Centurion, 1865–1871

Full Name James Hill Prentice

Born 29 June 1817 in Canton, New York

Died 24 April 1891 in New York (Brooklyn), New York

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Henry K. Brown and Dudley B. Fuller

Elected 3 June 1865 at age forty-seven

Archivist’s Note: Uncle of William Packer Prentice; great-uncle of E. Parmalee Prentice, Robert Kelly Prentice, and William Kelly Prentice