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OLIVER HILLHOUSE PRINCE

    Oliver Hillhouse Prince, one of Georgia's illustrious and gifted sons, was
for many years, a resident of Milledgeville. During his residence, he purchased
the old Hansel or William Rockwell place, at Midway. He moved to Milledgeville
from Macon in the year 1828, and was Editor of the "Georgia Journal" and was
also a partner in the law firm of "Prince and Ragland."

    He was a native of Montvale, Connecticut and was born about the year 1788.
At the age of fourteen years, he came to Washington, Georgia, with his aunt,
Mrs. Hillhouse, to assist her in publishing a newspaper. There he spent a great
part of his youth and early manhood. In 1820, he married Miss Mary Raymond
Norman, of a Virginia family, that had moved to Georgia.

    He became one of the South's most brilliant lawyers and was also a
proficient civil engineer. By an act of the Legislature, in December, 1822, he
was appointed chairman of a commission consisting of himself, David S. Booth,
Samuel Wood, Charles J. McDonald, and Seth Ward, to lay off the county of Bibb
and the city of Macon. He was the second State senator chosen from Bibb county.

    He was a versatile and brilliant writer, and during his residence in
Milledgeville, his leisure was spent in composing stories and skethches of his
time. Some of these are preserved in "Georgia Scenes" by Longstreet, with whom
he collaborated. About this time he was appointed by the Legislature, to prepare
a digest of the laws of Georgia. He determined to retire from active business,
and removed with his family to Athens, Georgia.

    In the spring of 1835, having completed his work of preparing the digest, he
went, accompanied by his wife, to Boston to superintend the publication. In
October of that year, while Senator Prince and his wife were coming home by
water, from New York to Charleston, the boat began to leak, a heavy gale sprung
up, and high seas prevailed. As a consequence of it, all seventy of the ninety
passengers were lost, among the number being Sen. and Mrs. Prince. Three small
children survived them: Virginia, the oldest, who afterwards became the wife of
Dr. James Mercer Green, of Milledgeville; Frances, the second daughter, who
married James Roswell King, of Roswell, Georgia; and Oliver Hillhouse Prince,
Jr., who married Miss Sarah Judson, of Savannah. Their descendants are now
living in different parts of Georgia. Miss Baseline Prince, of Athens, Georgia,
Mrs. S. W. Poe, of Macon, Georgia, and Mrs. H. K. Pratt and Miss Marion King, of
Marietta, Georgia.



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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA

BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED

ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
-1925—


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