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History Time: William H. Prescott, Salem Historian

That spring, young William Barclay Foster journeyed to Pittsburgh, a town slowly transitioning from raw frontier town to industrialized city. Initially successful, he married Eliza Tomlinson, whose wealthy progenitors had owned a plantation in Maryland. Their marriage would produce musically talented children, first a daughter, Charlotte; later, a boy, Stephen Collins. William was born into a cosmopolitan, genteel milieu. The Prescotts' beautiful house, (which stood on the site of the present-day Plummer Hall), reflected the success of his father, respected judge and philanthropist William Prescott (1762-1844). His law practice laid the foundations of the fortune from which William would benefit. Prescott's paternal grandfather, Col. William Prescott (1726-1795) was revered as a hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Catherine Greene Hickling Prescott (1767-1852), William's mother, was the daughter of the U.S. Vice Consul in the Azores, merchant Thomas Hickling (1743-1834) . Some of Prescott's books include History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic (3 volumes) (1838); History of the Conquest of Mexico (3 volumes) (1843); Biographical and Critical Miscellanies (1845) revised as Critical and Historical Essays in 1850; History of the Conquest of Peru (3 volumes) (1847); Memoir of Hon. John Pickering, LL.D. (1848); History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain (3 volumes) (1855 and 1858). Prescott's importance cannot be underestimated historiographically. As scholar John E. Eipper wrote in a recent article in the journal Hispania, "No Hispanist was more instrumental in defining the field of Latin American Colonial Studies than William H. Prescott…. His histories, most notably the History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843), were bestselling works which informed the U.S. public about Latin American antiquity during the "Manifest Destiny" period of mid-century.

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