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George Dennison Prentice (Louisville Journal editor)

b. 1802-12-18 d. 1870-01-22

Louisville, Kentucky, editor. Connecticut native. Son of Rufus Prentice and Sarah Stanton Prentice. Married to Harriet G. Benham Prentice in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 18, 1835. Father of William Courtland Prentice, Harriet Prentice, Clarence Joseph Prentice, and Amelia Prentice. Attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1820 to 1823. Studied law in Windham County, Connecticut, in 1825. Editor of the Connecticut Mirror in 1827. Editor of the Hartford New England Review in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1828. Author in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1830. Editor of the Louisville Journal from 1830 until 1868. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3, p. 277B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 3.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County Ward 2, p. 572.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 260B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000817873.

"Death of Mr. Prentice," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 23, 1870, p. 2.

Thomas D. Clark, "George Dennison Prentice," in John E. Kleber, ed., The Encyclopedia of Louisville (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 722-23.

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Prentice, George Dennison. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202844 (November 12, 2026).

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