L. Prouty, farming, P. O. Council Bluffs, was born in Massachusetts in 1831, son of Pliny and Melissa Prouty, natives of Massachusetts, and the parents of five boys and three girls. Mr. Prouty was educated at the common schools and at Leicester Academy, Massachusetts, and in that State taught school, having charge of one of the city schools of Worchester in 1854. He then taught two years in Virginia, where he was married, in 1857, to Miss Esther J. Hull, of Rockbridge County, that State. He left Virginia for Nebraska as a surveyor; thence to this township, where he rented a farm for three years of Mr. Bump; then rented for three years of Mr. Henry Garner the place which he nows owns, having bought it in the spring of 1861. Since his residence in this township, Mr. Prouty has taught school for ten winters, carrying on farming during the summer months. He is still identified with the schools of the township.