Title	Mr.
Last Name	Prentiss
First Name	Albert
Middle Name	N.
Maiden Name
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Holden, ME
Date of Birth	1877?
Place of Death	Dexter, ME
Date of Death	1926-04-14
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 4-15-1926, p.1
Obituary	DEXTER MAN SUICIDE VICTIM Albert N. Prentiss, Well Known Stage Driver, Shoots Self-Financial Difficulties Believed Cause of Act-Was Respected Citizen and Prominent in Lodges Albert N. Prentiss, who has been driving a Star route from Dexter to Garland, committed suicide Wednesday noon by shooting himself through the head, near the ear with a revolver. Financial difficulties which have developed in recent months are advanced as the reason for his act. He bid in the star route contract for the carrying of the mail to Garland last July underbidding all competitors. The venture was not profitable. Recently his small bank balance was tied up by an attachment and checks issued about that time came back and he could not seem to get money to take them up. It is thought that he brooded over the matter until he was driven to the act of taking his life. He was last seen about 11 o'clock in the vicinity of Fred Young's wood yard where the body was found at about 12.45 p. m. by Albert Burrill who was told by a small boy that a body was lying on a pile of cedar rails in the wood yard. Mr. Prentiss, who usually started on his route about 9 o'clock, returned to his home later in the forenoon Wednesday. His wife asked him why he was not on his route and he replied he was through. She asked him if he had notified the postmaster and he replied that he had not but was going to. He left the house and later was seen near the wood yard where the body was found. It was plain that Prentiss had made every preparation to commit suicide as he tried first to hang himself, but as he had but one arm the effort failed. He then went to a pile of cedar rails and standing on these shot himself through the head just behind the ear. In the absence of the county medical examiner, Dr. O. R. Emerson of Newport, Dr. J. H. Murphy was called and established the fact of the death. Besides his wife, Jennie, the deceased is survived by three children, Una, aged 11, Robie 7, Evelyn 2; his father, Samuel Prentiss, of Holden, mother, Mrs. Flora Prentiss of Boston, two brothers, Harland of Boston and Samuel Prentiss, Jr. of Holden. He was born in Holden 49 years ago and had lived in Bangor for 15 years, moving to Dexter seven years ago, where he has since made his home. He was a member of Bedivere lodge, K. of P., and Plymouth lodge, I. 0. 0. F., and attended a meeting of the Odd Fellow lodge Tuesday evening and seemed to be his natural self, remaining after the meeting to play a few games of cards with other members. Funeral services, under auspices of Plymouth Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., and Bedivere Lodge, K. of P., will be held at the First Baptist church Friday forenoon at 10 o'clock.