Bio of Jesse P. Prescott (b.1840), Jackson Co., MN

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The following excerpt comes from 
An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota
by Arthur P. Rose
Northern History Publishing Company, Jackson, Minnesota, 1910

p. 370

Jesse P. Prescott (1868), of Heron Lake, is one of Jackson County's 
pioneers, having resided here nearly forty-two years. He was born in 
Penobscot county, Maine, June 7, 1840, the son of Jeremiah and Mary
(Miles) Prescott. The mother of our subject was born at Newport, Maine, 
December 3, 1804, and was married to Mr. Prescott December 16, 1823. 
The family moved to Illinois in 1847 and seven years later to Allamakee
county, Iowa. There, with the exception of two years spent in California 
and Oregon, the parents of our subject spent the rest of their lives.

Jesse P. Prescott accompanied his parents from Maine to the west when 
seven years of age, and he resided with them until the early sixties.
In 1861 he engaged in farming, having previously bought land in 
Allamakee county, Iowa, but a year and a half later enlisted as a
member of Company A, Thirteenth Iowa infantry, and served until the close
of the war. He farmed two years after the war, and in the spring of 1868 
moved to Jackson county, taking as a homestead the southwest quarter
of section 30, Des Moines township. Mr. Prescott engaged in farming his 
homestead five years and then located in the village of Heron Lake,
where he has since resided, engaged in various occupations.

At Lansing, Allamakee county, Iowa, Mr. Prescott was married in 1861 to 
Sophronia Topliff. To them were born four children, as follows: Edah M., 
born July 5, 1863, died August, 1888; Iva B., born November 10, 1867, 
married Henry Conrad, died April 3, 1909; Alvah P. born September 29, 
1872, married Lillie Long; Lelah B., born December 14, 1881, married 
C. A. Kellam June, 1907. The second marriage of Mr. Prescott occurred at 
Sibley, Iowa, October 7, 1889, to Mary McNair, a native of Ulster county,
New York. One child has been born to this union, Harvey H., born 
October 14, 1890, a graduate of Mankato college, and now a clerk in the 
First National Bank of Heron Lake.