B54,321,2.
Mary Adeline Prentice, 2d child of Ezra Parmalee Prentice (B54,321) and Alta (Rockefeller) Prentice, was born in New York City November 29, 1908. She graduated at the Yale University School of Nursing in 1931 and at Vassar College, B.A., in 1933. She was employed as a nurse in New Haven Hospital in 1931 and as nurse by Dr. Smiley Blanton of New York City in 1932, 1933 and 1934 and by the Mid-Town Hospital, New York City, in 1936-37. She married October 16, 1937, at Williamstown, Mass., Benjamin Davis Gilbert, an inventor, son of Benjamin Thorne Gilbert and Sue Biggar Gilbert of Clayville, N.Y. They reside at 13 Commerce Street, New York City. Children (Gilbert):

1. Alta Mary, b. April 25, 1939, at Ann Arbor, Mich. (B54,321,21)

2. Benjamin de Racey, b. February 2, 1941, at New York City. (B54,321,22)

3. Parmalee Prentice, b. May 24, 1943, at New York City. (B54,321,23)

4. John Humphrey, b. October 9, 1944, at New York City. (B54,321,24)

B54,321,3.
Spelman Prentice, 3d child of Ezra Parmalee Prentice (B54,321) and Alta (Rockefeller) Prentice, was born April 17, 1911, in New York City, graduated from the Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut in 1929, was employed by an Albany, N.Y., Bank in 1931 and 1932. He graduated at Yale College, A.B., in 1934 and won the major "Y" in track athletics and a minor "Y" in cross-country running. He was elected to Elihu senior society and was employed by Humble Oil and Refining Company, Houston, Texas, and Standard Oil Company of Louisville, Kentucky. He was a reserve officer in the artillery until 1937 when he retired to his farm in Lydonville, Vermont, where he has raised beef