HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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as a photographer, and the business which he founded is still in existence, being conducted by his son, Edmund C. Pratt.
HENRY M. PRATT, editor, Dundee, Ill., born in Washington County, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1864; came west with his parents when seven years of age and located first in Michigan; acquired his first newspaper experience in Hanover, Mich.; came to Dundee, Ill., in 1890, where he has since been identified with the "Carpentersville News." Mr. Pratt was married Nov. 15, 1892, to Miss Minnie Kruse, of Elgin.
MAURICE PRICE, pioneer settler, Big Rock, Ill., born in Wales, Nov. 15, 1810; came to the United States in 1830, locating first in New York; came to Chicago in 1835, where he helped to build some of the first streets of that city; removed to Kane County in the spring of 1836, settling on land in Big Rock Township, where he still resides (1903) on the farm he originally purchased from the Government, it being one of the first pieces of land improved in Big Rock Township; was one of the founders and builders of the first church in Big Rock; married first Hannah Livingston, and after her death, Maria Davis, both of Big Rock.
WILLIAM PRICE (deceased), pioneer set tier, born in the County of Westmeath, Ireland, July 4, 1814; came with an older brother to Canada in 1831, removing to Kane County, Ill., in 1841, where he became well known as a progressive farmer and successful manager of affairs; married in 1843, Miss Mary Smith, who died Aug. 23, 1900, and their living children are: M. Minnie, George W., William W., Mrs. Nancy Berry, Mrs. Janet Benton, Hugh, and Mrs. Jessie Cornell. Mr. Price died Aug. 27, 1903.
ISAAC W. PRICHARD, physician and surgeon, Aurora, Ill., was born in Oneida County, N. Y., educated at Rome, N. Y., and graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Michigan in 1868; later made special study in the Long Island Medical Hospital at Brooklyn and the City Hospital of New York, beginning the practice of his profession at Kaneville, Kane County, III. For thirty-five years he has been a hard and faithful worker in his chosen calling, has been a contributor to the medical press, and since 1899 has been Supreme Medical Examiner for the Yeomen of America, also officiates in a similar capacity in several other orders, including the Maccabees and the Odd Fellows. Dr. Prichard was married in 1870 to Miss Effie I. Coy, daughter of B. A. Coy, of Kaneville, III. Mrs. Prichard died in 1875, leaving one child, Mrs. Charles Smith, of Sac City, Iowa. In 1878 Dr. Prichard married Miss Annie Waterbury, daughter of James S. Waterbury, of Neosha Falls, Kans. Their children are Lillie M., James E. (the latter a student of medicine at the present time-1903), and Perry Anita June.
ALBRO B. PRINDLE, manufacturer, Batavia, Ill., born in Chicago, April 22, 1869, son of James P. and Mary (Cornell) Prindle; came with his parents in 1874 to Batavia, Ill., where he was reared and educated, graduating from the West Batavia High School in 1887. He attended Jennings Seminary in Aurora, and then became connected with the Chicago office of the Piano Manufacturing Company, where he was employed until 1892. That year he returned to Batavia and entered the employ of the Newton Wagon Company, of which he became Superintendent in 1897, a position he still retains. He is a member of the Garden City Council, No. 202, R. A., of Chicago. In 1894 he married Miss Bertha M., daughter of W. J. Hollister, of Batavia.
EDWARD T. PRINDLE (deceased), manufacturer and inventor, Aurora, Ill., was born in Litchfield County, Conn., Nov. 26, 1826, and died in Aurora, Jan. 30, 1900. His father, Philemon Prindle, was of an old Connecticut family; his mother's maiden name was Sybil M. Root. Mr. Prindle was bred a machinist at Skeneateles, N. Y., in 1850 came to Detroit, Mich., and found employment in a factory operated by Col. F. G. Hammond, which he afterward leased and operated until he entered the employ of the Michigan Central Railroad Company. When Colonel Hammond became General Superintendent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Mr. Prindle was put in charge of the Galesburg shops; in 1859 was transferred to Aurora as foreman of the locomotive department, later became Division Master Mechanic, but in 1873 resigned to become General Superintendent of the Machinery Department of Crane Brothers Elevator Works in Chicago. At the end of a year and a half he
