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He was born on December 18, 1802 in New London County, Connecticut, United States. He was the younger of two children of Rufus and Sarah Stanton Prentice, and a descendant of Thomas Prentice who became a freeman of Cambridge, Massachussets, in 1652.
He was a precocious child.
He was taught by his mother to read at three and a half and was then sent to the district school. By studying he prepared himself and by teaching he earned money to pay his expenses at college and in 1820 he entered the sophomore class of Brown University. He graduated in 1823 and after another period of teaching he began to study law.
Between the years of nine and fourteen he was obliged to work on his father's farm but that did not deaden his ambition for a professional career. Later he gained admission to the bar, although his practice was brief and small.
In 1827 he had his first newspaper experience in the editorship of a New London paper; in 1828 he became first editor of the New England Review, a Hartford weekly. Because he displayed an unusual aptitude for political leadership he was sent in 1830 to visit Henry Clay in Kentucky in order to compile a biography of the candidate. Biography of Henry Clay was published in 1831.
He was invited to take charge of a projected newspaper to combat the spread of Jacksonian Democracy throughout the state. This paper was the Louisville Daily Journal, first issued on November 24, 1830. In a short time it brought to its editor a reputation for fearlessness and ability.
At the opening of the Civil War he was offered great inducements to support the cause of the South. Prentice's own family was divided on the question of loyalty. Left somewhat morbid by his experiences, he withdrew from the management of his paper which, as a result of a merger, appeared on November 8, 1868, as the Louisville Courier-Journal, under Henry Watterson's editorship.
His verse, which does not rise above the sentimental mediocrity of many writers of the period, is represented in The Poems of George D. Prentice (1876, 1883). Prenticeana, a collection of his wittiest editorial paragraphs, had two editions (1860, 1870).
He died of influenza and was buried in Cave Hill Cemetery.
George Dennison Prentice was the editor of the Louisville Journal, which became a major newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky. He attracted readers by satire as well as exaggerated reporting. His writing was said to contribute to rabid anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner sentiment, a riot in 1855. Prentice remained as editor of the paper during and after the 1868 merger that created The Courier-Journal. A statue of Prentice by Alex Bouly, was completed in 1875.
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He himself was not an abolitionist, but he was a Unionist and upheld Lincoln's administration so vigorously as to be largely responsible for Kentucky's refusal to secede. The Emancipation Proclamation cooled him toward the President but did not alter his belief in the principle of union.
Prentice opposed to the policies of Reconstruction.
Prentice is described as having been slightly above medium height, with a pleasing face of irregular features. His nature was generous and impulsive.
Quotes from others about the person
One authority has been willing to call him in A History of American Journalism "one of the greatest editors of the middle nineteenth century".
He married Henrietta Benham on August 18, 1835; they had two sons, who entered the Confederate army, and one of them was killed.
