Husband John Snyder Pringle 1
Born: 23 Oct 1804 - near McKee's Gap, Blair Co, PA 1
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Died: Aft 1882
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Father: William Pringle ( - ) 1
Mother: Elizabeth Snyder ( - ) 1
Marriage: 3 May 1832 2
Other Spouse: Sarah Ellen Snider ( - ) 2 - 16 Oct 1845 2
• Business: The Pringle Boat-Building Company: West Brownsville, Washington Co, PA.
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Wife Elizabeth P. Horner 2
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Died: 29 Nov 1844 2
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Children
1 F Elizabeth Pringle 2
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Died: Bef 1882
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Spouse: Jacob Walter ( - ) 2
2 F Ann Pringle 2
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Died: Aft 1882
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3 M William H. Pringle 2
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Died: Abt 1865
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4 M George W. Pringle 2
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Died: while young
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5 F Sarah Pringle 2
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Spouse: Andrew C. Axton ( - ) 2
6 F Mary Pringle 2
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Died: in infancy
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - John Snyder Pringle
His opportunities for an education were such as the subscription schools of neighborhoods in which he resided during his minority afforded. He employed his spare moments in the study of business men and methods, and by the time he reached his majority he was fairly equipped for the work which was to engage his attention in after-years. When eighteen years of age he left his father's house, which was then in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and came to "Redstone Old Fort." The first work which he performed after coming to Fayette County was in the boat-yard of Joseph Allen, at the mouth of Little Redstone Creek. He developed a fondness and an aptness for boat-building, and after remaining with Mr. Allen one summer was employed as foreman in the yard of Robert Rogers, of Brownsville, for whom he built the first flat-bottomed boat launched west of the Alleghenies. The superiority of this boat over others then in use was obvious, as was also Mr. Pringle's ability as a boat-builder, and orders for vessels like his were so numerous that he determined to embark in business for himself. He began in the yard at Brownsville, and remained there until 1844, when he purchased the Ephraim Blaine property in West Brownsville, and on it graded and established a boat-yard, which he operated until 1879, when, incapacitated by old age and disease, he transferred his business interests to the care of his son, John D. S. Pringle, and his son-in-law, Andrew C. Axton, both of whom were noted for their energy and business ability. His business life extended over a period of more than half a century, and in that time he launched over five hundred boats on the Monongahela. The largest one was the "Illinois." She was three hundred and four feet long, had a fifty-two-foot beam, and was seventy-five feet across her deck.
Politically Mr. Pringle was originally a Democrat. He continued in that faith until the organization of the Republican party, after which time he acted with it.
He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, to whose benevolent enterprises he was a liberal contributor.