Charmin
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- Sep 3, 2007
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Neat scrapbook found-Civil War Vets, Yukon Gold, & Prentice/Prentiss Genealogy
This was a neat find at a garage sale back in the Fall. It is a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and handwritten documents about the Wilcox/Prentiss/Spaulding/Goodwin families. Some of the really interesting newspaper clippings talk about the "gold-seekers" of the Yukon Basin and Klondike gold fields. These clippings were letters written by George M. Prentiss(Prentice) and printed in the newspaper as he was about the sail from Seattle, Washington in Feb. 1898. Articles tell of George Prentiss sending gold home to his friends and how he had several claims in and around Dawson and has an interest in the K.T. & T. Co.
There are also newspaper clippings that tell about some of the Civil War Veterans of the Drake Post No.4 of Manchester...One man in particular has quite a few clippings about him---O.W. Prentiss. Mr. Prentiss, at the age of 16, answered Lincoln's call for volunteers and inlisted into the Navy at Burlington, Vt. He was assigned to the Roanoke and was an eyewitness to the battle of the Merrimac and Monitor in Hampton Roads. When his sea enlistment was up, Mr. Prentiss enlisted in the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry and served in that regiment during the remainder of the War.....his regiment was stationed at Appotomatox Court House when Lee surrendered. Mr. Prentiss participated in 13 major engagements, among them being the historic battle of Cold Harbor and Lookout Mountain and the Seige of Vicksburg. Clippings also tell of him joining the 1888 gold rush to Calif. and finding a gold nugget which he brought back and made it into a ring worn by his wife.
In the scrapbook there are many pages of notes about the genealogy of the Prentiss families, papers from the Dept. of the Interior Bureau of Pensions(Revolutionary War Records Section) and others.
I think I will list this on eBay and see what it brings---Maybe someone from the Prentiss family will see it or someone who enjoys reading about the Yukon gold rush. Here's a few pictures:
This was a neat find at a garage sale back in the Fall. It is a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and handwritten documents about the Wilcox/Prentiss/Spaulding/Goodwin families. Some of the really interesting newspaper clippings talk about the "gold-seekers" of the Yukon Basin and Klondike gold fields. These clippings were letters written by George M. Prentiss(Prentice) and printed in the newspaper as he was about the sail from Seattle, Washington in Feb. 1898. Articles tell of George Prentiss sending gold home to his friends and how he had several claims in and around Dawson and has an interest in the K.T. & T. Co.
There are also newspaper clippings that tell about some of the Civil War Veterans of the Drake Post No.4 of Manchester...One man in particular has quite a few clippings about him---O.W. Prentiss. Mr. Prentiss, at the age of 16, answered Lincoln's call for volunteers and inlisted into the Navy at Burlington, Vt. He was assigned to the Roanoke and was an eyewitness to the battle of the Merrimac and Monitor in Hampton Roads. When his sea enlistment was up, Mr. Prentiss enlisted in the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry and served in that regiment during the remainder of the War.....his regiment was stationed at Appotomatox Court House when Lee surrendered. Mr. Prentiss participated in 13 major engagements, among them being the historic battle of Cold Harbor and Lookout Mountain and the Seige of Vicksburg. Clippings also tell of him joining the 1888 gold rush to Calif. and finding a gold nugget which he brought back and made it into a ring worn by his wife.
In the scrapbook there are many pages of notes about the genealogy of the Prentiss families, papers from the Dept. of the Interior Bureau of Pensions(Revolutionary War Records Section) and others.
I think I will list this on eBay and see what it brings---Maybe someone from the Prentiss family will see it or someone who enjoys reading about the Yukon gold rush. Here's a few pictures:
, but it has sure been fun to read!
