GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE 



  George Dennison Prentice was born in a little, old-
fashioned New England cottage on the outskirts of the
village of Preston, in Connecticut, December i8,
1802, which came that year, as I find by reference
to a chronological table, on a Saturday, and was at-
tended by a north-east gale that swept down the coast
and over the country far and near. He died in a Ken-
tucky farm-house, on the banks of the Ohio River, ten
miles below the city of Louisville, just before the
break of Saturday, January 22, i870, while an un-
toward winter flood roared about the lonely spot. Be-
twveen the tempest of his coming and the tempest of his
going flowed a life-current many-toned and strong;
often illuminated by splendid and varied achievements,
and sometimes overcast by shadowy passions, struggles,
and sorrows; but never pausing upon its journey dur-
ing sixty-seven years, nor turning out of its course; a
long life and a busy, joining in uncommon measure
thought to action, and devoting both to the practice of
 A Memorial Address delivered by invitation of the Legislature of
Kentucky, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, at Frankfort,
February 2z, 1870.
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