JORDAN P. PRINGLE
EXPIRES OUT IN NEVADA
Old Johnstowner, Who Served in
The 133d Regiment, P. V. I.
Passes Away at Reno
Jordan P. Pringle, who was identified with one of the pioneer families of Johnstown, died yesterday at his home in Reno, Nev., where he made his home since leaving Johnstown some 10 years ago. His death was due to general debility. Jordan Pringle was born in Johnstown about 70 years ago and was a son of John Pringle, who, with the late Wesley J. Rose and Walter Edson, bought out the late S. H. Smith’s foundry and carpenter shop in 1854 and conducted it until 1864 under the name of Pringle, Rose & Edson. The establishment was located on the present site of the Gautier works of the Cambria Steel Company and was sold to the Johnstown Mechanical Company near the close of the Civil War. Jordan P. Pringle’s mother died in Johnstown and his father expired in the State of Alabama.
During the Civil War, Jordan P. Pringle served as a private in Company A, 133d Regmiment P. V. I. which was recruited in Johnstown in August 1862. His Captain was the late John Downey, with Powell’s Stackhouse, of Wallingford. Philadelphia was First Lieutenant, and the late John U. Hay as Second Lieutenant. In 1868, Mr. Pringle and Miss Emma Shyrock, daughter of the late William I. and Nancy Reyrt Shyrock, were married at Baker’s Furnace, Indiana County, by the Rev. Dr. Reuben A. Fink. Mrs. Pringle is a sister of George K. Shryock of Westmont. Mrs. Pringle survives her husband with two daughters, Miss Lydia Pringle, at home, and Maude, wife of John Housechild, or Reno. Jordan Pringle was an employee of the Oregon Short LIne Railroad for many years.
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