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While attending Yale University , Prentice became a member of the Skull And Bones Society in 1928 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa . During his years at Yale, Prentice had accumulated debts and consequently was cut off from his parents. He worked in Boston for a wholesale hardware firm for four years to make enough money to return to Yale. Upon his return to the Ivy League school, Prentice continued to work to support himself. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1932 and practiced Law with a Chicago law firm throughout the 1930s . In March 1941 , before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Prentice volunteered in the U.S. Army as a Private . While serving in the Pacific Theatre of World War II , he became a Captain in the Artillery . Prentice is best known as a pioneer of Artificial Insemination in farm animals as a means of improving their genetic pool. On August 11 , 1941 , Prentice married Abbie Cantrill. The couple had one daughter, Chicago Philanthropist , Abra Prentice Wilkin . |