BIO: Morris Watson PRINCE, Cumberland County, PA

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    >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
    Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 78-79
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    MORRIS WATSON PRINCE, S.T.D., has been connected with Dickinson College,
  Carlisle, since 1896, as Professor of History and Political Science.
    Dr. Prince comes from old Colonial and Revolutionary New England stock and
  the family has been represented in every war in which this country has been
  engaged from the French and Indian to the Spanish-American. The first
  ancestor of whom there is record was John Prince, of Abbey Foregate,
  Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, to whom Queen Elizabeth, by her Garter King
  at Arms, granted the coat of arms still borne by the Prince family in England.
    The first of the family to come to this country was John Prince, the son of
  the rector of East Stafford, Berkshire, and he came to escape the persecutions
  of Archbishop Laud, emigrating to America in 1633. His son, Thomas, was born
  in Hull in 1658, and in 1685 married Ruth, daughter of John Turner, and
  great-granddaughter of Elder William Brewster, who came to America in the
  "Mayflower," landing Dec. 20, 1620. Sewell Prince, grandfather of Morris W.,
  was in the battle of Lake Champlain on the Flagship "Champlain," with
  McDonough.
    Ammi C. Prince, father of Dr. Prince, was born in Portland, Maine, July 16,
  1818, and died Dec. 7, 1894, in Warren, Maine. He entered the ministry of the
  Methodist Episcopal Church when about thirty years of age, giving up a
  prosperous business, but he felt that duty called him. He was an able
  preacher, and for forty years prominent and influential in the councils of
  the church. He was Presiding Elder for eight years, serving a term of four
  years each on the Rockland and Bangor districts, Maine. He was recognized as
  one of the strongest minds in his church, and was a member of several General
  Conferences. He married Miss Jane Davis, of Kennebunk Port, Maine, who was
  also of Revolutionary stock.
    Morris Watson Prince was born at East Boothbay, Maine, and received his
  education at Bucksport, that State, and in the Wesleyan University at
  Middletown, Conn.

    CUMBERLAND COUNTY.  79

  In 1871 he entered the ministry of the M. E. Church, his first parish being
  at Plymouth, N. H., and he subsequently served pastorates at Concord, N. H.,
  Dover, N. H., Haverhill, Mass., until he became president of Bucksport
  (Maine) Seminary. After three years in this incumbency he returned to the
  active work of the ministry, and was stationed at Stamford, Conn., Brooklyn,
  N. Y., Meriden, Conn., again at Stamford, at Bristol, Conn., and Trinity
  Church, New Haven, Conn. During these years he repeatedly declined the
  Presidency of Educational Institutions, but in 1896 accepted an election to
  the Chair of Political Science in Dickinson College. He has won deserved
  recognition as an educator, preacher and lecturer, having frequently taken
  the lecture platform, though he has never allowed such work to interfere with
  his regular duties. Dr. Prince is a member of several historical, scientific
  and literary societies, and is a Knight Templar Mason. In politics, he thinks
  and acts independently.
    Dr. Prince married Miss Katherine Buck, of Bucksport, Maine, which town her
  family founded. Mrs. Prince also has Revolutionary ancestors. Two children
  have blessed this union: Leon C., who is Professor of history and
  International Law in Dickinson College; and Edith, who is at home with her
  parents.
    Dr. Prince has written quite a number of pamphlets on different topics,
  principally addresses, lectures, etc., along church lines, which he has
  published. He has also done considerable in assisting in the compilation of
  various works, notable among which might be mentioned "Simpson's Encyclopedia
  of Methodism," etc. He has made two trips abroad, the first, in 1885, purely
  for pleasure, covering most of Europe. Again in 1903 he and his wife traveled
  extensively through the British Islands and on the continent of Europe, he at
  the same time making considerable research along scientific lines. He has
  traveled over the greater portion of the United States and Canada.