BIO: George H. Prentice, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 384-385.
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  Prentice, George Henry, was born on January 17, 1853, in the town of 
Burlington, Otsego County, N.Y. He is the only living child of John A. 
and Lydia A. Prentice, the tow oldest children, George W. and Henry J., 
dying in childhood. In the spring of 1858 the family moved to Hartwick, 
N.Y. He was reared on a farm, and obtained a common school education in 
the district school near his home. Prior to the spring of 1873 he had 
on two different occasions spent a year at Hartwick Seminary, a 
Lutheran classical and theological school, located a few miles below 
Cooperstown, N.Y. In the winter of 1873-74 he taught a district school 
in Hartwick, and in the fall of 1874 secured a position as assistant 
teacher in Hartwick Seminary, where he remained five years, graduating 
in the classical course in 1879. In the fall of 1879 he entered Drew 
Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1882. He joined the 
Conference in 1883.
  He was raised in a Methodist home, and in 1868 became a member of the 
Church. He realized a call to preach in 1877, and in the fall of that 
year was licensed as exhorter, and again in 1879. From 1876 to 1879 he 
ran a small printing office.
  In 1888 he published a fifty-page pamphlet on High License a Step in 
the Wrong Direction; and in 1889 another pamphlet of about the same 
size on Constitutional Prohibition the Best Remedy for the Drink Evil 
of Modern Times.
  On April 4, 1884, he married Miss Hattie V. Chamberlain, of Fulton, 
Ia. Six children have been born to them - Pearl A., Neil L., Ruth E., 
Julia F., Blanche L., and Myrah H. 
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1883, East Worcester; 1884-85, 
Wells Bridge; 1886, East Worcester; 1887, Harpursville and Nineveh; 
1888-90, Gilbertsville; 1891-93, New Berlin; 1894-98, Waymart; 1899-
1903, Moscow.