Oliver
Hillhouse Prince (1787-1837)
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Birthplace
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Montville, Conn. |
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Occupation
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Lawyer |
| Congressional Service |
Senate 1828-29 (?-Georgia) |
Newspapers
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Washington
(Ga.) Monitor, 1803-1806 (F) |
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Milledgeville
Georgia Journal, 1832-35 |
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| Other
offices |
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State
senate, 1824 |
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Notes
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Wrote
a newspaper satire on a Georgia militia training, published in
pamphlet form as The ghost of Baron Steuben, or, Fredonia in
arms! (1807_ that was reprinted in Augustus Baldwin
Longstreet's Georgia Scenes (1835) and later plagiarized in
Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet Major (1880) |
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Helped
lay out the town of Macon, Georgia |
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First
compiler of Georgia's colonial and state laws |
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Nephew
of James
Hillhouse, Federalist senator from Connecticut |
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Father
of Oliver
Hillhouse Prince (1823-1875), a Democratic newspaper editor
and planter of the 1840s |
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Died
in a famous shipwreck during a hurricane near the North Carolina
Outer Banks |
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| Source (beyond
BDUSC) |
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| Link |
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Online
article: "The Eponymous Mr. Prince," from the Athens,
Georgia magazine Flagpole: part
1; part
2 |
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