Charles S. Prince

PRINCE, ALLEN

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 21:18:59

Charles S. Prince was born in Cumberland county, Maine, seven miles from Portland, July 7, 1828. When but two and one-half years old his father died, and when four years old his mother moved with her children to Franklin county, where he lived until eighteen years of age, when he went to Lowell, Massachusetts, and found employment in the Middlesex Mill for eight months. He then engaged in the Lowell Machine Shops one year, when he went to Virginia. He was there employed as overseer on plantations, excepting in the winter seasons, when he engaged in getting out ship timber.
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In 1853 he went to California via the Nicaragua route. He there engaged in mining and fluming in Tuolumne county for four years, when he returned to Maine and was married there, February 9, 1858, to Miss Elizabeth Allen, of Franklin county. The next fall he bought a saw mill there, which he ran for two years. He then sold it and engaged in buying stock and shipping it to Portland until 1865, when he came to Iowa and settled in Aplington. He bought real estate, engaged in mercantile business for a short time, and built several houses which he has since sold. In 1878 he built his present residence. Mr. Prince has been quite a prominent man, and has filled offices of trust in the town. He has two children living – Birdie S. and Eva. Mr. Prince met with great trouble, which was keenly felt, in the loss of his only son, Walter, who was a promising young man. Walter H. was born in Franklin county, Maine, December 28, 1860, and died in Aplington, November 24, 1877. Their first child, Cora, died in infancy.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 654