Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Baraboo:

Prescott E. Longley; born in Albany, N.Y. Feb. 10, 1843; when an infant, his parents, Freeman and Millicent B. (Wood) Longley, removed to Massachusetts with their family and resided there a few years, also a short time in Vermont, then returned to the State of New York and settled at Sterling Center, Cayuga Co.; remained there three years, coming to Newport, Sauk Co., Wis., in 1854; removed from there to Baraboo in 1861. Prescott E. enlisted in Co. F. 3d W.V.C., in 1862; served nearly three years; mustered out in July, 1865, and engaged in mercantile business in Baraboo when he returned from the army; continued in this business one year, then clerked two years for C.A. Sumner, then with Savage & Halsted two years, when he went to Dixon, Ill., and remained there two years; then traveled for the Victor Scale Company in Wisconsin; was their first salesman; then engaged in the dry-goods business for one year; has been in the livery business since January, 1880. Married at Baraboo, Nov. 7, 1876 to Mrs. Mary Frances Sharp; she was born in Hartford, Conn.

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