. The history of Fuller's Ohio brigade, 1861-1865; its great march, with roster, portraits, battle maps and biographies . vocate general to the Department of Ohio for three years; served asnational judge advocate general on the staff of General Louis F. commander-in-chief for one year. Colonel Prophet has been amember of Mart Armstrong Post No. 202, Grand Army of the Republicfor many years. In the year 1898, he was appointed aide on the staff ofGeneral J. Cory Winans, who was chief of staff to National Commander-in-Chief James A. Sexton, of Illinois. In life he is strictly for a
. The history of Fuller's Ohio brigade, 1861-1865; its great march, with roster, portraits, battle maps and biographies . vocate general to the Department of Ohio for three years; served asnational judge advocate general on the staff of General Louis F. commander-in-chief for one year. Colonel Prophet has been amember of Mart Armstrong Post No. 202, Grand Army of the Republicfor many years. In the year 1898, he was appointed aide on the staff ofGeneral J. Cory Winans, who was chief of staff to National Commander-in-Chief James A. Sexton, of Illinois. In life he is strictly for a fair dealand justice to all. In May, 1870, Colonel Prophet, without solicitation, was made a mem-ber of the Phonetic Society, established in Bath, England by Sir IsaacPitman, the author of Phonetic Shorthand. He was-the first stenographerin the North-west, lie was a member of the Ohio Association of Stenog-raphy, and of the International Association. In later years he has devotedhis time exclusively to the practice of his profession of the law. Mr. Prophet is a member of the Ohio and Allen County Bar JOHN W. SPRAGUE, Brevet Major S. V. BREVET S\ \|( IE GENERAL jolIX WILSON SrRAGUE. Biographical Sketch by Colonei Oscar L. Jackson, Sixty-third Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. John Wilson Sprague was born at White Creek, Washington County,New York, April 4. 1817. His father, < His Sprague, was an early settlerof Worcester, Massachusetts, but removed in early life to Troy, New mother was a daughter of Benjamin Peek. When a boy he attendedthe districl school of his neighborhood and later at the age of thirteenyears, entered the polytechnic institute at Troy, X. Y. He attended thisschool for Mime time, but did not graduate as he left it to engage in busi-ness, lie was engaged For a number of years in the grocery business atTroy. X. Y. General John W. Sprague. 345 In 1S45 he removed to Erie County, Ohio, residing at different timesin the villag
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