HERMAN PRINGEY
Herman Pringey is a settler of 1869. He made his home on section 2, which was then wild prairie, where he still resides.
Herman Pringey came here in 1869, and bought eighty acres of land in the southeast quarter of section 2, Noble township. He has since erected good buildings, planted fruit, shade and ornamental trees, and otherwise improved the place. He was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1842. He is a son of Joseph and Margaret Pringey, natives of Pennsylvania. When he was four years old, his parents moved to Virginia, (now West Virginia,) and settled in Preston county, where he grew to manhood, being reared upon a farm. June 28, 1861, he enlisted in the Union army, in company H, or the Third West Virginia Infantry, and served until August, 1864. This regiment was re-organized and afterwards known as the Sixth West Virginia Cavalry. He participated in the following battles: Romney, Winchester, Cross Keys, Cedar mountain, White Sulphur Springs, Droop Mountain and second battle of Bull Run. He was the Siegel on the Rappahannock campaign, where they were in battle the greater part of the time for nineteen days. He re-enlisted in February, 1865, and was discharged with the regiment. He returned home and resumed farming. In 1866 he came to Iowa, and lived in Muscatine county until he came to Cass, in 1869. Mr. Pringey was married December 23, 1869, to Sarah Kirby, a native of Morgan county, Ohio. They have five children...Orie, Charlie, Frederick, Emma E. and Carrie Belle.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 667.
