Biography of  Prentiss Gill, pages 872 / 873.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Prentiss Gill, harness-maker, Waterloo, Ind., was born in Summit County, 
Ohio, Dec. 29, 1839, a son of Thomas and Sarah (Sapp) Gill, his father a 
native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Maryland.  They were among the 
early settlers of Summit County, locating a little before Akron was laid 
out.  Prentiss was reared and educated in his native county, and when 
thirteen years of age began working at the harness-maker’s trade, serving an 
apprenticeship of four years.  In April, 1861, he enlisted in the Nineteenth 
Ohio Infantry (three months service) and was the first volunteer enrolled 
from Cuyahoga Falls.  He served four months, participating in all the 
engagements under General McClellan.  He was mustered  out, and eleven days 
later enlisted in Company D, Fifteenth United States Infantry, Second 
Division (General McCook) Army of the Cumberland; afterward First Division, 
fourteenth Army Corps.  He participated in the battles of Chattanooga, 
Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, and 
Jonesboro, Ga.  He was mustered out as sergeant at Atlanta in 1864 and 
returned home but soon after enlisted in Company ___, One Hundred and 
Ninety-seventh Ohio Infantry, and served a year.  In July, 1865, he came 
to Indiana and began working at his trade in Kendallville, Noble Co.  
Remained there a few years, and then moved to Waterloo, where he now has a 
good trade.  He was married Dec. 25, 1865, to Nancy Yant, who died in 
Waterloo in 1881, leaving three children-Kate, Jessie and Lloyd.  In 1883 
Mr. Gill married Mary Warren. He is a member of Waterloo Post, No.52, 
G.A.R.

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