NATHANIEL PRENTICE
                           WELSH, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 182.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore

NATHANIEL PRENTICE, WELSH.- Nathaniel Prentice, planter, was born in Vermont,
February, 1823. He is the son of Isaac and Sarah (Stanley) Prentice, both
natives of Vermont. Isaac Prentice removed to New York at an early
day, and was there engaged in farming for a number of years. Later he removed
to Wisconsin and gave his attention to the same vocation. He spent the latter
days of his life in Sac county, Iowa, where both he and our subjects mother
died.
The subject of this sketch is one of a family of seven children, five brothers
and two sisters. He was engaged with his father on the farm until he reached his
majority.
Mr. Prentice was engaged in farming in Wisconsin and Iowa until 1886, when lie
removed to Calcasieu parish and purchased a tract of land containing
thirty-seven hundred acres, known as-the " Hawkeye Ranch."' Two hundred
and forty acres of this land is cultivated in rice, to which it is well adapted.
Mr.  Prentice has married twice. His first wife was Miss Maria West, to whom lie
was married in 1844, in New York. They became the parents of thirteen
children, eight sons and five daughters, viz: Charles Riley, Elias (deceased),
Hosea, James, Orrin, Horatio and Isaac (died in infancy); Sarah, wife of M.
Wiseman; Prudence, wife of R. P. Willard; Nettie E., wife of James Harriman;
Rose, wife of A. N. Kelly; Maria, died in infancy.  Mrs. Prentice died in 1871,
in Sac county, Iowa, and Mr. Prentice afterward married, in 1874, Miss Sarah
Bancroft, of St. Lawrence county, New York. They are the parents of two sons:
Mark, and Baby (died in infancy). Mr. Prentice has always taken an active
part in local affairs, and when a resident of Sac county, Iowa, for eight years
served as county supervisor. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.