ABRAHAM GOTTSCHALL
The subject of this sketch was born in Lycoming county, Penn., May 12, 1839. He is the son of John and Catherine (Sherman) Gottschall, of Pennsylvania. He was educated in his native State, and followed the wagon-maker's trade for four years. He left home when about seventeen years of age. Mr. Gottschall enlisted in the Federal army in 1861, in Co. K, 45th Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Col. Thomas Welch, who died at Cincinnati during the war. He was in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Knoxville, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, James Island, and other engagements. He received a slight wound in the leg at South Mountain, and on several other occasions had very narrow escapes, but no serious wounds. He was in the service nearly the entire time of the war. On December 25, 1867, Mr. Gottschall was married to Miss Mary R. Allen, a native of Pennsylvania, born February 14, 1843. She is the daughter of John and Elizabeth Allen, of Pennsylvania. Of this union six children have been born, all of whom are living, the pride and comfort of their parents. They are Jennie A., born in 1868; Bertha E., born April 24, 1870; Minnie M., born May 1, 1872; Ulysses, born February 24, 1874; Mansford W., born May 16, 1876, and Thomas P., born January 16, 1879. After his marriage, Mr. Gottschall moved to Hannibal, Missouri, in April, 1868, and for a time devoted his attention to gardening. He afterward engaged in farming, which he follows advantageously. Located on his present place in 1877, and by energy and industry is prospering. History of Marion County, St. Louis,Perkins;1884- C. Horton -2009

 

A. M. GUPTON
Mr. Gupton is a native of Marion county, born October 7, 1830. His father, Stephen Gupton, was a native of North Carolina. His mother, Elizabeth (Montgomery) Gupton, was a native of Kentucky. Mr. Gupton was educated in the public schools of Marion county and grew to manhood here. He went to California in the spring of 1850, and after a stay of three years returned home in June, 1853. He was married April 28, 1854, to Mary Jane Ralls, daughter of William Ralls, of Kentucky. After marriage Mr. Gupton settled in Grundy county, Missouri, where he resided for two years, and then returned to Marion county in the winter of 1856. He lived here three years and then moved to Knox county, where he purchased 120 acres of land. He soon sold out, however, and again returned to Marion county and located on his present farm in August, 1867. He afterward moved his family to California and remained there two years, but returned to the same farm, where he now owns 640 acres of  good land, valued at $20,000. It includes a fine orchard of five acres of various fruits. Mrs. Gupton was born February 14, 1831, and died February 7, 1877. Of this union eight children were born, three of whom are now deceased. Mr. Gupton was married again February 5, 1878, to Mrs. Josephine Lampkins. She died January 1, 1880. Of this marriage one child was born, Jacob M., born December 10, 1879, and died January 16, 1880. Mr. Gupton was married the third time October 15, 1882, to Susan E. Pedett, daughter of William and Annie Pedett, of Kentucky. Mr. Gupton has been a prominent member of Masonic lodge No. 502 since 1867, was a charter member of that lodge, and has held the office of junior warden since 1881. He is a member of the Christian church, and has been since 1856.
 History of Marion County, St. Louis,Perkins;1884- C. Horton -2009

 

T. J. HAYDEN
The subject of this sketch is the son of Benjamin W. and Martha A. (Griffith) Hayden, of Bourbon county, Kentucky. He was born in Marion county, Missouri, April 17, 1832. He was educated in the common schools, and grew to manhood with his father and family. Mr. Hayden was married February 28, 1861, to Miss Catherine Bright, daughter of Michael and Maria Bright, of Mercer county, Kentucky. Mrs. Hayden was born January 1, 1844, in Mercer county, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Hayden have been blessed with four children, all of whom are living. Mr. Hayden has been a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church since 1868, and his wife has belonged to the same church since 1856. Mr. Hayden was drafted during the civil war by the United States authorities, but took his chances of being shot in escaping, rather than prove disloyal to the South, his own country, with whose cause his sympathies were cast, and so did no service.  History of Marion County, St. Louis,Perkins;1884- C. Horton -2009

 

FRISBY H McCULLOUGH-- son of Lieut. Col. Frisby H McCullough, C.S.A., and Eloisa Anne McCullough, is a native of Marion County, Missouri. He was born November 25, 1862. On July 23, 1889 he was married to Florence L Engeroff, daughter of Christopher and Lucy Engeroff, of Columbus Ohio. They had three children: Frisby H Jr, born August 09, 1890; Helen D, April 28, 1892, died June 06, 1911; Anne Elizabeth, January 08, 1899. His father, Colonel McCullough, was executed at Kirksville August 08, 1862 by order of Colonel McNeill, an account of which is given in the historical part of this work. As is stated there, it is now almost universally conceded that he was shot without due military process of law, and Colonel McNeill has been severely criticized for his action. Colonel McCullough was regarded as a brave and brilliant officer, and the manner of his death was as heroic as ever written in the pages of the world's history. Mr McCullough graduated from Georgetown University Law School in the class of 1889. Since that time he has been practicing his profession at Edina. He is considered a very brilliant and able lawyer and has appeared in many of the most important cases in the courts. He is a democrat, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and belongs to the Edina Lodge, No 291, A.F. and A.M.; Royal Arch Chapter No 62, R.A.M., Edina, Missouri; No. 464, B.P.O.E., Kirksville; also a member of Camp No. 4312, M.W.A., Edina, Missouri.
[Source: "A History of Adair County Missouri" by E.M. Violette (1911). Submitted By Desiree Rodcay]

 

HENRY FRANCIS MILLAN was born in Palmyra, Missouri November 10 1842. His parents moved to Schuyler County Missouri in the same year. The family lived on a farm until 1849, when they moved to Canton Missouri. He attended the public and private schools and the Methodist Seminary in Canton. In the spring of 1862 the family moved to Chariton in Lucas County, Iowa, where he studied law with the Honorable Theodore M. Stuart, and was admitted to the bar May 16, 1865. After his admission to the bar, he first located in Osceola, Iowa, but soon determined to return to and locate in his native state. He came to Kirksville Missouri November 01, 1865, where he has resided and practiced his chosen profession ever since. He was married to Lizzie B Brewington, daughter of Benjamin and Martha Brewington, November 17, 1869. They had four children, three of whom are living: Mattie M, now wife of Dr. Charles W Hartupee, at Red Wing, Minnesota; Hallie F, who resides with her father, and Carrie F, wife of Arthur D Baum, of Kirksville, Missouri. Mrs. Millan died on the 28th day of August 1903. Mr. Millan is a Republican in politics.
[Source: "A History of Adair County Missouri" by E.M. Violette (1911). Submitted By Desiree Rodcay]

 

General Benjamin M. Prentiss; For many years one of the most distinguished citizens of Missouri as well as of the nation was the late Gen. Benjamin M. Prentiss, who for twenty years lived at Bethany, where his death occurred on February 8, 1901. General Prentiss was a soldier of two wars, rose to the rank of major general, U. S. Volunteers, during the Civil war and was the hero of the great battles. He came to America from England in 1620. Another direct ancestor was the noted Elder Brewster, of the Mayflower colony. Valentine Prentiss (1) with his wife, Alice, came to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1631 and died about 1633. His son John Prentiss (2) born in England, came over with his parents in 1631, married Hester died in 1691. His son Jonathan Prentiss (3), born July 15, 1657, married Elizabeth Latimer; died July 28, 1727. His son John Prentiss (4), born 1705, married Sarah Christopher’s; died January, 1746-47. His son John Prentiss (5), born November 23, 1740, married Esther Richards; died November 22, 17—. His son Henry Leonidas Prentiss (6), born July 4, 1788, married Rebecca Mayberry; died December 24, 1849.
Henry Leonidas Prentiss, father of General Prentiss, was born in New London, Connecticut, in 1788, and died at Quincy, Illinois, in 1849. He was a public-spirited man and a politician. At one time he was a member of the Legislature from Wood County, Virginia. He married Rebecca Mayberry, and General Prentiss was one of two sons, the other being Henry Clay, who died in Knox County, Missouri. The daughters were Mrs. Amelia Adair, Mrs. Lucy Bowles, and Mrs. Mary Goodno.
General Prentiss spent his early childhood in Virginia, and from there his parents moved to Quincy, Illinois. His education came from the country schools of Virginia, and afterwards from a private military school. Migrating west in 1836, he located in Marion County, Missouri, and engaged in the manufacture of cordage. In the spring of 1841 he went to Quincy and established himself in the same business with his father. During the Mormon excitement at Nauvoo, Illinois, he was in the service of the state, and at the opening of the Mexican war he was appointed adjutant of the First Illinois Infantry. With this regiment he served through the entire war, first as first lieutenant and afterwards as captain of Company I, which he commanded under General Taylor at the battle of Buena Vista.
It was during his residence at Palmyra, Missouri, that the mettle of General Prentiss' character was tested. A small man in physical stature, but with extraordinary courage and force of intellect and will, he never hesitated in the presence of anyone to uphold his ideas of morals and politics. He possessed decided convictions on the subject of slavery and other economic questions which finally were settled by the arbitration of war and expressed him characteristically and freely in whatever community he lived. Palmyra at that time was a hotbed of secession sentiment, and young Prentiss was constantly persecuted because of his anti-slavery views. In a contest of wits and logic he was an easy victor, but not all his battles were of that character. He frequently engaged in personal combat, though not as an aggressor, and it became almost a common practice for the southerners in that town to set upon the valiant young abolitionist the strongest bully who could be induced to attack him. So far as can be ascertained, there was never a case in which Prentiss did not prove himself master of the situation, and when he left Palmyra he had at least the thorough respect if not the friendship of every resident. After his return to Quincy and also major, from that to colonel, and then to the rank of brigadier-general before reaching the actual scene of hostilities. General Prentiss was placed in command at Cairo at the beginning of the war and established a blockade of the Mississippi River. While there he was waited upon by a delegation of Kentuckians, who protested against the landing of troops on Kentucky soil. This delegation reminded him that Kentucky was a sovereign state, the peer of Illinois, but to this General Prentiss replied that when the President called for troops 'to defend the Union, Illinois promptly furnished her quota, while Kentucky had failed to respond, and consequently her wishes were not entitled to the same consideration.
After leaving Cairo General Prentiss was ordered by General Fremont to Jefferson City, Missouri, to take command of all North and Central Missouri. He fought at Mount Zion and a number of other minor engagements in the state. Subsequently being ordered to the field by General Halleck, he proceeded to Pittsburg Lauding, Tennessee, where he arrived April 1st, and organized and took command of the Sixth Division, Army of the Tennessee. It was there that his reputation as a military leader was secured beyond all peradventure. The historians of that great battle have all united in giving General Prentiss' command credit for maintaining the integrity of the Union position during the first day, and thus insuring what amounted to a virtual victory for the Union arms. It will be recalled that the other federal generals in council doubted that the Confederates were massed in force at Shiloh, and at his own request General Prentiss was permitted to send a small force forward to ascertain whether the enemy was not there in force. Five companies from General Prentiss' division were selected for that task, and these troops while reconnoitering received the first onslaughts of the enemy, arrested their charge and thus gave the Union army time to form the line of battle. The Confederates attacked in such force and with such energy that General Sherman's corps and all the other commands were compelled to give ground, and General Prentiss himself had to retire to a better position. At his command his troops finally took position in the old Sunken Road, and there their resistance was so deadly that the Confederates called the place the "Hornet's Nest," and there the most sanguinary struggle of the day was centered. It was while General Prentiss was holding this line that General Grant came up, and requested him to hold the road until sundown at all hazards. General Prentiss gave his promise, and he afterwards stated that again and again he looked for the setting sun, and was almost convinced from the slowness with which that luminary moved toward the western horizon, that it had surely caught upon a snag. No reinforcements were sent td his hard-pressed troops, and at 5.30 in the evening General Prentiss and his 2,200 soldiers were captured. For the following seven months he endured the rigors of Confederate prisons. It was during this time that newspapers published the report that the Confederates had surprised and taken General Prentiss out of bed early in the morning on the first day. This report went all over the Union, and for a number of years remained without formal contradiction. General Prentiss declined to defend himself officially from the falsehood until 1880.

THE BATTLE OF SHILOH WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SIXTH DIVISION, COMMANDED BY GENERAL PRENTISS
"On the morning of April 6, 1862, the Union forces encamped at Pittsburg Landing consisted of five divisions, commanded respectively by: First, McClernand, 7,028 men; second, W. H. L. Wallace, 7,564 men; fourth, Hurlbut, 7,302 men; fifth, Sherman, 8,830 men; sixth, B. M. Prentiss, 5,463* men; total, 36,187 men.
"About 20 per cent of this number did not engage in the action on account of sickness, detailed for other duty and temporary absence, leaving 28,950 on active duty; with sixty-one regiments of infantry, three regiments of cavalry, and twenty-one batteries of artillery, exclusive of the Third Division, commanded by Gen. Lew Wallace, at Crump's Landing, seven miles below, numbering 7,564 men, not engaged in the first day's battle.
"Gen. U. S. Grant was in command of all Union forces in the vicinity of Savannah and Pittsburg Landing.
"Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston was in command of all Confederate forces in Tennessee.
'' General Hickenlooper.''
SIXTH DIVISION
"On the 26th day of March, 1862, General Grant, by Special Order No. 36, assigned General Prentiss to the command of unattached troops then arriving at Pittsburg Landing, with directions to organize these regiments, as they arrived upon the field, into brigades, and the brigades into a division, to be designated the Sixth Division.
"Under this order one brigade of four regiments, commanded by Colonel Peabody, had been organized and was encamped on west side of Eastern Corinth Road, 400 yards south of the Barnes Field. Another brigade, commanded by Colonel Miller, Eighteenth Missouri, was partially organized. Three regiments had reported and were in camp on the east side of the Eastern Corinth Road. Other regiments on their way up the Tennessee River had been ordered to report to General Prentiss, but had not arrived.
"The Sixteenth Iowa arrived on the field on the 5th and sent its morning report to General Prentiss in time to have it included in his report of present for duty that day; it was not fully equipped and did not disembark from the boat until the morning of the 6th. The Fifteenth Iowa and Twenty-third Missouri arrived at the landing Sunday morning, April 6, 1862. The Twenty-third Missouri reported to General Prentiss at his third position about 9:30 A. M., and was placed in line at once as part of his command. The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa were, by General Grant's order, sent to the right to reinforce McClernand. They reported to him at his fifth position in Jones' Field, and were hotly engaged from about 1 P. M. to 2:30 P. M. Hickenlooper's Fifth Ohio Battery and Munch's First Minnesota Battery and two battalions of Eleventh Illinois Cavalry had been assigned to the division and were encamped in the rear of the infantry. One company from each regiment was on picket one mile in front of the camps on well to the front. This party encountered the Confederate picket under Major Hardcastle in Fraley's Field at 4.55 A. M. These pickets at once engaged, and continued their fire until about 6:30 A. M., when the advance of the main line of Hardee's Corps drove Powell back.
'' General Prentiss, hearing the firing, formed his division at 6 A. M. and sent Peabody's brigade in advance of his camp to relieve the retiring pickets and posted Miller's brigade 300 yards in front of his camp, • with batteries in the field at right and left of the Eastern Corinth Road.
In this position the division was attacked at 8 A. M. by the brigades of Gladden, Shaver, Chalmers, and Wood and driven back to its camp, where the contest was renewed. At 9 A. M. Prentiss was compelled to abandon his camp and fall back to his third position, which he occupied at 9:05 A. M. in an old road between the divisions of Hurlbut and W. H. Wallace. Hickenlooper lost two guns in first position and Munch had two disabled. Each brought four guns into line at the Hornet’s Nest. Prentiss was here joined by the Twenty-third Missouri, which gave him about one thousand men at his third position. With this force he held his line against the attacks of Shaver, Stephens and Gibson, as described in account of Tuttle's brigade, until 4 P. M., when Hurlbut fell back and Prentiss was obliged to swing his division back at right angles to Tuttle in order to protect the left flank. When Tuttle's left regiments marched to the rear Prentiss fell back behind them towards the Corinth Road and was surrounded and captured at 5:30 P. M., near the forks of the Eastern Corinth Road. Hickenlooper and Munch withdrew just before they were surrounded, Hickenlooper reporting to Sherman and becoming engaged in the 4:30 action on the Hamburg Road. Munch's battery reported to Colonel Webster was in position at mouth of Dill Branch, where it assisted in repelling the last attack Sunday night.
"Maj. D. W. Reed, "Historian and Secretary, Shiloh National Military Park Commission."

THE HORNET'S NEST
"Slowly we retired from one defensible position to another, at each receiving the fire of well-served opposing battery, until we reached a roadway which ran at right angles to the one upon which we had been moving, well known as the "Sunken Road," having been cut some distance through a low hill. Thus nature supplied a breastwork, a defensive line upon which to rally, with a prominent knoll upon which to place the battery, with front covered by almost impenetrable growth of underbrush. The Confederates made repeated charges and desperate assaults but the Union force could not be routed from their place of vantage. The dead and wounded fell like hail. A great number of the troops that fought like tigers in the '' Sunken Road'' were raw, had never been in battle before. The day wore on, the Union line slowly melting away, ammunition nearly exhausted. The enemy's lines were plainly seen crossing to the peach orchard in our rear, toward the only road over which escape was possible. Then General Prentiss informed me that he feared it was too late to withdraw his infantry, but I must pull out, and, if possible, reach the reserve forces in the rear. I bade the general good-bye, and under whip and spur, the remnant of our
'' Shiloh was the severest battle fought at the West during the war, and but few in the East equaled it, for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges the day before, so covered with dead that it would have been possible to walk across the clearing; in any direction stepping on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground. On our side, National and Confederate troops were mingled together in about equal proportions, but on the remainder of the field nearly all were Confederates. On one part, which had evidently not been plowed for years, bushes had grown up, some to the height of eight or ten feet. There was not one of these left standing unpaired by bullets. The smaller ones were all cut down.
"Gen. U. S. Grant." '' The chivalry of the South was to be met by the sturdy manhood of the North. Perhaps neither Gettysburg nor any other battlefield of the war furnished a greater scene of courage and carnage than that afforded in and about that 'Peach Orchard.' It was simply an exhibition of valor, and it was splendid.  Prentiss took his third position a few minutes after 9 o'clock, and here he was joined by the Twenty-third Missouri Infantry, which added about six hundred to his fragment of a division. In Prentiss' morning fights and retreat his command had dwindled to less than a thousand men, but these men gave a good account of themselves before the night fell.  There was much good fighting in different parts of the field, though not of such magnitude as in and about the 'Peach Orchard" and in front of the 'Hornet's Nest.' * * * The heroic stand of Prentiss and Wallace in the old road near Duncan field had served the Union cause well. Prentiss was a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, and W. H. L. Wallace lay mortally wounded on the field held by the Confederates, but the stubborn fight, waged from half-past nine in the morning until half-past five in the afternoon, taking the whole strength of the Confederates to subdue the spirited resistance, had saved the day to the Federal Army. Maj. Geo. Mason,
Secretary of the Illinois Shiloh Battlefield Commission stated “The first collision was in the quarter of Gladden's brigade, on our right, with a battalion of five companies of the Twenty-first Missouri of Prentiss' division dispatched well to the front by General Prentiss, of his own motion, as early as 3 A. M. But for this incident, due solely to the intelligent soldierly forethought of an officer not trained for the business of war. The whole Federal front would have been struck wholly unawares, for nowhere else had such prudence been shown.
'' General Beauregard.'' "I think it is now generally conceded that but for the foresight of General Prentiss in sending Colonel Moore to the front, the Rebels would have reached Sherman's and Prentiss' camp before 6 o'clock. It is also conceded that the heroic fight made by Prentiss at 6 o'clock, in advance of his camp, was the most important event of the battle. He checked the enemy for more than an hour, and their heavy infantry of the enemy, and then in the death of W. H. L. Wallace and the surrender of Prentiss. These generals have received scant justice for their stubborn defense. They had agreed to hold their position at all odds, and did so until Wallace received his fatal wound, and Prentiss was surrounded and captured, with nearly three thousand men. This delay was the salvation of Grant's army.
"Col. Wm. P. Johnston."
"Prentiss' vigilance gave the first warning of the actual danger, and, in fact, commenced the contest. This spirited beginning gave the first alarm to the divisions of Sherman and Prentiss. The latter promptly formed his division and moved a quarter of a mile in advance of his camp, where he was attacked before Sherman was under arms. With the rawest troops in the army, his vigilance gave the earliest warning of danger, and offered absolute resistance to its approach; though broken in the advance, he rallied in line with Hurlbut and Wallace and firmly held his ground until completely surrounded.
"General Buell."
"The final victory of that battle was one of the most important which has ever occurred on this continent.. It dissipated forever that nonsense of 'one southern man whipping a dozen Yankees.' It gave us the prestige which we had only to follow up, as we did at Corinth, Iuka, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Columbia, and Raleigh—yea, to the end of the war—to insure absolute success.
"General Sherman."
After being exchanged, General Prentiss was commissioned a major general of volunteers for his gallantry at the battle of Shiloh. He served on the court-martial in the case of Gen. Fitz John Porter, and he was the last member of that court to pass away. At the close of this trial he was ordered to report to General Grant at Milliken's Bend, by whom he was assigned the command of the eastern district of Arkansas, with headquarters at Helena. Here on the 4th of July, 1863, he commanded the Union forces in the battle of Helena, gaining a decided victory over the enemy, whose forces were equal to four times his number.
The political career of General Prentiss began a number of years before the war. He was a republican from the organization of the party, and in 1860 was nominated by the Quincy district for Congress. During that year he spoke from the same platform with Oglesby, Ingersoll, Palmer, Yates and Lincoln, and was a companion of Lincoln when the latter spoke in his district. On the first occasion in which General Prentiss spoke with Mr. Lincoln, the future president made a characteristic speech, and said about all there was to be said. When he sat down "Captain Prentiss" was introduced as a candidate for Congress, and being sadly embarrassed by the presence of Mr. Lincoln, leaped from his chair and landed flat-footed on the table in the center of the stage. He did this to attract the attention of the audience and perhaps also it removed some of his embarrassment. When he started into his speech he began in his usual fiery and entertaining way and kept the audience laughing for a few minutes and then sat down. Lincoln with his ready sympathy had divined his predicament and understood.
During his residence at Quincy, General Prentiss was appointed United States pension agent by General Grant, and filled the office eight years. In 1878 he moved to Missouri, spent a short time in Sullivan County, and then engaged in the practice of law at Kirksville. After moving to Bethany in 1881 he continued the practice of law, and in 1888, after the election of President Harrison was appointed postmaster, and received the same honor from President McKinley. In 1880 General Prentiss served as a delegate-at-large to the republican national convention which nominated General Garfield, and was a delegate to the national convention of 1884 which placed Blaine and Logan in the field as the national republican candidates and seconded the nomination of John A. Logan for president. He frequently attended the Missouri conventions of his party, and was one of the most influential and popular leaders in the state. He took part in every campaign until his death. Those who recall General Prentiss as a political orator will agree with the opinion that no speaker of his time could stir up more enthusiasm among his followers, and at the same time do more to convince the lukewarm and disaffected.
After the election of General Harrison, General Prentiss went to Washington, met the president, and was asked what he wanted. General Prentiss, considering his distinguished services was exceedingly modest, and his request was for the postmastership at Bethany, but, he said, he did not wish that office until the then incumbent's term had expired. The president assured him that the office should be his, but expressed him as desirous to accommodate General Prentiss with something more suitable. However, the latter declined any further favors. While in Washington he went to the office of General Noble, then secretary of the interior, and told the secretary that he was to be the postmaster of Bethany after a few months, and in the meantime inquired if there was not some service that he could render during the interval. General Noble in response made him special agent of the general land office and sent him to Denver, Colorado. While there General Prentiss became so occupied with his duties that he almost forgot the Bethany post office, until notified of the resignation of its former incumbent, returned just in time to receive his commission. In religion General Prentiss was a member of the Methodist Church.
The first wife of General Prentiss was Margaret Sowdosky. Their children were: Harrison Tyler; Guy Champlain, who marched with Sherman to the sea and died in Quincy; Jacob Henry, who spent his last years in Bethany, where his family survives him; Ella, who married Doctor Blackburn and still lives in Bethany; Benjamin M., Jr. of Colorado: Clay, of Bethany. The oldest of these children, Harrison Tyler, known better as "Tip." was a drummer boy at Shiloh under General Sherman. The story is related that during the battle he met his father's aide and inquired "where is the old man?" "He's out there where you hear all that fighting," was the reply. "Well," said the drummer boy, "if he's out there one member of the family in the fight is enough. I'm going to the river." For many years after the war, Tip Prentiss was a river pilot on the Mississippi, and died in Bethany.
General Prentiss' second wife was Mary Worthington Whitney, a daughter of Joseph Ingram Whitney, who came from Maine. Mrs. Prentiss was born in Pennsylvania, December 16, 1836, and died in lived in Bethany since December 16, 1881. For a number of years he was the companion of his father during numerous political campaigns. While his father was postmaster at Bethany he served as assistant through both the Harrison and McKinley administrations, and then succeeded his father in the office and was himself postmaster for two terms. Since leaving the Bethany post office Mr. Prentiss has engaged in business.
On July 14, 1909, Mr. Prentiss was married at Bethany to Miss Lillian C. Neville, a daughter of James M. Neville. A short time previously Mrs. Prentiss had retired from her office as county superintendent of schools, and about the same time Mr. Prentiss left the post office, their marriage marking the conclusion of their official career. Mrs. Prentiss was born in Harrison County, was for a number of years engaged in educational work, served in committees in the State Teachers' Association, and has been actively identified with musical and literary circles at Bethany. She is a graduate of the Bethany High School and the Warrensburg State Normal School. Mrs. Prentiss is now regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution in the Elizabeth Harrison Chapter at Bethany. Mr. Prentiss and wife are active members of the Methodist Church; he is a trustee and she is president of the Ladies' Aid Society.
Source:  A History of Northwest Missouri Volume III; publ. 1915 in III Volumes; Edited by Walter Williams; Submitted to Genealogy Trails and transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack

 

M. B. RHODES, receiver U. S. land office, 1910-1914; (Rep.); b. Jan. 8, 1874, Palmyra, Missouri; educ. pub. schls. Palmyra; H. S., West Plains, Mo.; engaged in banking business in West Plains, Mo., 1891-9; resided in Kansas City, Mo., 1899-1901; located in Basin, Wyoming, 1901, as assistant cashier Big Horn County Bank, 1901-10; member first town council of Basin, 1902; treasurer town of Basin, 1904-8; town clerk, 1909-10; appointed receiver of U. S. land office at Lander, Wyo., 1910-14; mem. Masons, Knight Templar; K. of P.; M. W. of A. Address: Lander, Wyoming.
[Men of Wyoming: The National Newspaper Reference Book of Wyoming Containing Photographs and Biographies of Over Three Hundred Men Residents, 1915 – Transcribed by AFOFG]