George Alanson Prescott
M, b. Apr 29, 1834, #4971
George Albert Prescott
M, b. Aug 19, 1864, #2110
George Alphrez Prescott
M, b. Dec 15, 1857, #2111
George Bartlett Prescott1
M, b. Sep 16, 1830, #527
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- George B. Prescott, was the first general electrician of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and one of the earliest writers on the subject of telegraphy.
Was supervisor for the American Telegraph there. He wrote the book: "History, Theory and Practice of the Electric Telegraph" pub. by Ticknor & Fields, Boston, l860 The moved to l45 Broadway, NYC in fall of l869 and was connected with the Western Union Telegraph Co. One dau. Florence Wadsworth Prescott (Eliza C. Parsons Prescott, her mother, was a desc. of him of that name who hid the Charter of CT in the "Old (Charter) Oak" at Hartford, CT to prevent it from being seized by the British authorities.
George Bartlett Prescott PRESCOTT, George Bartlett, electrician, born in Kingston, New Hampshire, 16 September, 1830. He was educated at private schools in Portland, Maine, and from 1847 till 1858 was manager of telegraph offices. He became in 1858 superintendent of the American and in 1866 of the Western union telegraph companies' lines, and in 1869 electrician of the Western union telegraph company. Mr. Prescott was also electrician of the International ocean telegraph company from 1873 till 1880. In 1873 he visited Europe in the interest of the Western union telegraph com-party for the purpose of investigating the various systems of telegraphy in operation there, with a view of incorporating any improvement that he might discover into the system in the United States. He found many important objects of recommendation, and among others that were adopted was the system of transmitting messages in cities by pneumatic tubes, which he introduced in New York in 1876. Mr. Prescott also introduced the duplex and quadruplex telegraphs in 1870 and 1874. He was vice-president, director, and member of the executive and finance committee of the Gold and stock telegraph company in 1873-'81, and president of the American speaking telephone company in 1879-'82, also director and member of the executive committee of the Metropolitan telephone and telegraph company, and of the Bell telephone company of Philadelphia. His inventions include an improvement in telegraph insulators (1872) and an improvement in quadruplex telegraphs (1876), which he patented in the United States and Great Britain. Mr. Prescott has contributed many articles to periodicals, and has published "History, Theory, and Practice of the Electric Telegraph" (Boston, 1860): " The Proposed Union of the Telegraph and Postal Systems" (New York, 1869); "The Government and the Telegraph " (1872) ; "Electricity and the Electric Telegraph " (1877); "The Speaking Telephone, Talking Phonograph, and other Novelties" (1878) ; "The Speaking Telephone, Electric Light, and other Recent Electrical Inventions "(1879) ;" Dynamo-Electricity ; its Generation, Application, Transmission, Storage, and Measurement" (1884) ; and "Bell's Electric Speaking Telephone; its Invention, Construction, Application, Modification, and History" (1884).
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George Bigelow Prescott
M, b. Aug 31, 1816, d. Feb 13, 1819, #4972
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Aug 31, 1816 |
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Feb 13, 1819 |
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George Boardman Prescott
F, b. Mar 28, 1823, d. Aug 6, 1825, #2112
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Mar 28, 1823 |
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Aug 6, 1825 |
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George C. Prescott
M, b. Jun 21, 1847, #4973
George Chase Prescott
M, b. Jun, 1830, d. 1830, #4974
George Clifton Prescott
M, b. Mar 17, 1828, #4975
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Mar 17, 1828 |
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Nov 30, 1854 |
Principal=Fanny Davis |
George Clinton Prescott
M, b. Apr 25, 1844, #4976
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LIVED AT SABINA NEAR JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS |
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FARMER |
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Apr 25, 1844 |
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