Men and women of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries . , July6. 1805. P^ngaged in farming, seven milesfrom Nashville after the war. was electedto the House of Representatives of Tennes-see, from Davidson County in 1807, electedto the Forty-first Congress from the Nash-ville District in 1808; was postmaster ofNashville. 1872-1875; was appointed by theGo\ernor of Tennessee in 1872, one of thecommissioners from the State of Tennesseeto the Centennial Exposition at Philadel-phia, 1870, and was appointed on a com-mittee to visit the Vienna Exposition in1873, to take notes of detaiU
Men and women of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries . , July6. 1805. P^ngaged in farming, seven milesfrom Nashville after the war. was electedto the House of Representatives of Tennes-see, from Davidson County in 1807, electedto the Forty-first Congress from the Nash-ville District in 1808; was postmaster ofNashville. 1872-1875; was appointed by theGo\ernor of Tennessee in 1872, one of thecommissioners from the State of Tennesseeto the Centennial Exposition at Philadel-phia, 1870, and was appointed on a com-mittee to visit the Vienna Exposition in1873, to take notes of detaiU and methodsthere, with refei-ence to the Centennial Fxposition. He was for several years ])ub-lisher of the Nashville Hepubliean. ColonelPiosser was appointed in sjiccial agentfor the General Land Ollice at Washington,for the territories of Oregon. Washingtonand Idaho, serving six yiais; was electedauditor of Yakima County. Wash., for twoyears, in 1880; was elected member of theConstitutional Convention of the State ofWasliiiii;l()n from the Cminties of Yakima. William of City of (Seattle MEN OF AMERICA. 1355 and Klickitat, whicli met at Olyiiipia. July4. 1889; meniber and cliaiiman of the Boardof Harbor Line Coniinis> of Wasliin;^;-ton, 1890-1003; elected May, 1S93, mayorof North Yakima, servinjj until 1905. Col-onel Prosser was appointed by PresidentRoosevelt, in 1905, a member of the Boardof Visitors to the West Point MilitaryAcademy. He located a homestead in 1882in Yakima County, ^Yash., upon which hesubsequently founded the town of Prosser,which was incorporated in 1890; and forseveral years has been engaged in the realestate business in Seattle. He is the authorof a History of the Puget Sound Countryin two octavo volumes, which was publishedin 1903, and has been a frequent contribu-tor to the newspapers and magazines, chiellyon military and historical subjects. He isa companion and a past commaiuler of the^dilitary Order of th
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