Prentice, Ella Phoebe

Ella married Nye, Irwin Raymond 1 Jan 1891. Irwin (son of Nye, Freeman J. and Pickett, Hannah A.) was born 20 Feb 1869, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; died 23 Aug 1923, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• 1910 Census: 1910, Wittenberg, Shawano, Wisconsin, USA
• Moved: Abt 1915; To North Dakota
• WWI Draft Registration Card: 5 Jun 1917
• Biography: Abt 1962; University of Minnesota Press, 1962

Notes:

1910 Census:
Irwin A Nye - 41
Annie C Nye - 33
Gerald P Nye - 17
Clair J Nye - 14
Danield O Nye - 12
Margarie E Nye - 9
Lena Bartlow - 17

WWI Draft Registration Card:
Name: - Nye, Gerald Prentice
Birth Date: - 19 Dec 1892
Birth Place: - Hortonville WI
City/County: - Billings
State: - ND
Ethnicity: - W

Biography:
NYE, Gerald Prentice, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Hortonville, Outagamie County,
Wis., December 19, 1892; attended the public schools; engaged in newspaper work in Wisconsin
and Iowa; moved to North Dakota in 1915; publisher of the Billings County Pioneer, and later
editor and publisher of the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier; unsuccessful candidate in 1924 for
election to the Sixty-ninth Congress; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edwin F. Ladd; reelected in 1926,
1932, and again in 1938 and served from November 14, 1925, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1944; chairman, Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (Seventieth
through Seventy-second Congresses), Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions
Industry (1934-1938); president of Records Engineering, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1937-1959;
special assistant for elderly housing, Federal Housing Administration 1960-1964; member of
staff, Senate Committee on Aging 1964-1968; lawyer in Washington, D.C., 1964-1971; was a
resident of Chevy Chase, Md., until his death July 17, 1971, in Washington, D.C.; interment in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.

Bibliography:
DAB; Cole, Wayne. Senator Gerald P. Nye and Foreign Relations. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1962; Larsen, Lawrence H. 'Gerald Nye and the Isolationist Argument.' North Dakota History 47 (Winter 1980): 25-28.

See also his congressional biography.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000176