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He was born on May 12, 1816 at West Gorham, Maine, United States, the son of William Prentiss, a sea-captain, and Abigail (Lewis) Prentiss.
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He was born on May 12, 1816 at West Gorham, Maine, United States, the son of William Prentiss, a sea-captain, and Abigail (Lewis) Prentiss.
He attended Gorham Academy and Bowdoin College, graduating from the latter with the degree of A. B. in 1835. Never robust, for four years after graduation he was a semi-invalid. He studied Hebrew and German privately in New York under Isaac Nordheimer, then one of the ablest Orientalists in the United States.
Financed by his elder brother, Seargent Smith Prentiss, he spent two years in Europe, studied philosophy and theology under Prof. August Tholuck and others at Halle, made numerous visits to St. Peter's at Rome, had an audience with Gregory XVI, and met a number of celebrated people including Archdeacon Hare, Carlyle, Wordsworth, and Mrs. Gillman, patroness of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose writings had influenced Prentiss profoundly.
Returning to the United States, he was ordained, April 9, 1845, to the Congregational ministry and installed as pastor of the South Trinitarian Church, New Bedford, Massachussets. On November 6, 1850, he became associated with Dr. Jonathan B. Condit in the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian Church of Newark, New Jersey, but in April of the following year was called to the Mercer Street Presbyterian Church, near Washington Square, New York. Worn down by city life, he resigned and resided with his family in Switzerland and France from 1858 to 1860.
After his organization in the New School Presbyterians the Church of the Covenant, New York, he worked in the General Assembly which voted to unite the Old and New Schools, thus healing the schism of 1837. Prentiss became part-time instructor in pastoral theology at Union Theological Seminary in 1871, and two years later resigned his parish to give his full time to a professorship of pastoral theology, church polity, and mission work, later transferring to the chair of catechetics, apologetics, and Christian ethics.
He retired in 1897. At his death, some six years later, he was buried at Dorset, near his summer home.
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In the controversy which arose out of the heresy trial of Dr. Charles Augustus Briggs, Prentiss urged the Seminary to rescind the agreement of 1870 with the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, which action was taken on October 13, 1892.
His tastes were literary; his preaching and his teaching rarely elicited enthusiasm.
In 1845 he married Elizabeth Payson Prentiss, daughter of Rev. Edward Payson.