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E. Parmalee (Ezra Parmalee) Prentice
1863–1955
A Chicago lawyer with unusually wide interests, he wrote about constitutional law, education, food policy, and cattle breeding with the same energetic curiosity. His life also stretched far beyond the courtroom, linking elite legal circles, reform ideas, and experimental farming.
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Mons Spes, et novellæ aliæ
by E. Parmalee (Ezra Parmalee) Prentice, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Guy de Maupassant, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson
About the author
Born in 1863, E. Parmalee Prentice built an accomplished legal career after graduating from Amherst College in 1885, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1886 and then continued his studies for a year at Harvard Law School.
Prentice also wrote extensively. Records of his publications connect him with legal works such as The Commerce Clause of the Federal Constitution and The Federal Power Over Carriers and Corporations, while library catalogs also list essays, memoirs, and even Latin literary work under his name. That mix suggests a writer who moved comfortably between law, public questions, and literary interests.
Later references to his life describe him not only as a lawyer but also as the owner of Mount Hope Farm in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he became known for work related to dairy cattle and agriculture. He died in 1955, leaving behind a body of writing that reflects both professional ambition and a remarkably broad range of interests.