Background
Prall, William was born on April 6, 1853 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Edwin T. and Rachel More (Thomson) Prall.
Prall, William was born on April 6, 1853 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Edwin T. and Rachel More (Thomson) Prall.
Student Edwards Place School, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Heidelberg, 1873. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia, 1875.
South.T.D., Hobart College, 1892.
Clapp (deceased); married second, Helen Ames Lothrop, February 12, 1897. Admitted to bar, 1876. Practiced at Paterson, New Jersey, 1876-1886.
Member New Jersey Assembly, 1883-1884.
Drafted and secured enactment Free Public Library Law. 1st president Paterson Free Library, 1885.
Deacon, 1887, priest, 1888, Protestant Episcopal Church. Rector Church of the Holy Communion, South. Orange, New Jersey, 1887-1891, Saint John's, Detroit, 1891-1900, Saint Paul’s, Albany, New York, 1900-1906.
Member New Jersey Assembly, 1883-1884. Member General Convention Protestant Episcopal Church, 3 times, and as representative of Church to Synod of the Church of England in Canada.
Married Lilian Porter Clapp, October 26, 1881 (died 1884). Married second, Helen Ames Lothrop, February 12, 1897.