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in the United States of America. A consider-
able number of Cumberland Presbyterian
churches constituted a new assembly in 1906,
perpetuating the name and organization. The
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Colored,
was organized in 1869.
The Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church
was an offshoot of the body of the same name
in Wales. The first church was organized at
Remsen,N. Y., in 1826.
The United Presbyterian Church of North
America is the outgrowth of the union of
Scottish immigrants and their descendants
who had belonged to the Secession Presby-
terians and the Associate and the Reformed
Presbyterians of Scotland.
The Associate Synod of North America is
the continuance of those Associate and Re-
formed Presbyterian bodies which did not
enter the union out of \vhich came the Uni-
ted Presbyterian Church.
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Church is the result of a withdrawal in 182 r
from the Associate Reformed Church, at thj
time when the United Presbyterian Church
was orgam*2ed.
The Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter)
Church was organized in 1798 and developed
into a synod in i8oy, but was divided in 1833
on the question of the relation of its mem-
bers to the Government of the United States.
The two parties were termed 'Old Light' and
'New Light/ The former became the Synod
of the Reformed Church of North America.
Jt refuses to allow its members to vote or
hold office until there is constitutional recog-
nition of God as the source of power, of Jesus
as ruler, and of the Bible as the rule of life.
The General Synod of the Reformed Church
in North America, the other party to the di-
vision of 1833, is known as the 'New Light'
and its members exercise their discretion as
to participation in political affairs.
The Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America is the largest Presbyterian
body. The Presbyterian Church in the Uni-
ted States (Southern) is the second largest
Presbyterian body.
Prescott, city, Arizona, county scat of
Yavapai co., situated at an altitude of 5,347
ft., partly surrounded by Prescott National
Forest, is widely known as a health resort,
The region abounds in gold, silver, and cop-
per. The livestock industry is important; p.
(1930) 6,018.
Prescott, George Bartlett (1830-94),
American electrician, was born in Kingston,
N. H. In 1858-66 he was superintendent of

the American Telegraph Company, and in
r866-g superintendent of the Western Union
Telegraph Company. He was joint inventor
with Thomas A. Edison of several duplex
and quadrupk'x telegraph instruments (1870-
|). In rS7,}-«Sj ho was electrician to the In-
ternational Telegraph Company. In 1883 he
visited London, sind on his return home in-
troduced the pneumatic tube system of trans-
mitting messages in New York City. He was
author of various works on electricity.
Prescott, William Hickling (1796-1859),
American historian. In iSri he entered the
sophomore class at Harvard College. In his
junior year a blow from a piece of hard
bread, carelessly thrown by a fellow student
in tho commons hall, destroyed the sight oi
his left <'ve. In spite of this serious handi-
cap, however, he finished his college course
in 1X14 with sufficient credit to secure elec-
tion to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa
Society. For a few months following his grad-

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uation he read law in his father's office; but
an acute attack of rheumatism, centering in
his right eye, imperilled his life, and put an
end for the time being to all plans of regu-
lar study or work. He continued to suffer
from rheumatism, accompanied by intervals
of blindness, throughout his life; and it was
only by the exercise of the strictest sclf-
rlisciplinc that he was able to pursue his lit-
erary labors.
In 1821 Prescott wrote for The North Am-
erican Review a criticism of Byron's Letters
on Pope; and from that year until 1850 he
continued to be a regular contributor to that
periodical. The best of these wer*» subsequent-