Enoch M. Pringle, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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Enoch M. Pringle.  The largest individual operator in the 
turpentine and naval stores industry in Louisiana is Enoch M. 
Pringle of Glenmora, Rapides Parish.  Mr. Pringle has been 
identified with the turpentine business since early youth.  
He is a man of varied interests and affairs, and has been 
remarkably successful in his career, having started when a 
boy, it is said, with less than six dollars capital.

He was born in Alabama, March 12, 1878, son of Francis Marion 
and Cornnia (Yonge) Pringle, his father a native of Winston 
Salem, North Carolina, and his mother of Deer Park, Alabama, 
where they were married.  His father was a farmer and stock 
raiser, was well educated, and had a reputation for wisdom 
that made his counsel sought all over the community in which 
he lived.  For four years he was a Confederate soldier with 
the Twenty-sixth Mississippi Infantry, was several times wounded, 
and spent a period of imprisonment at Columbus, Ohio.  He is a 
democrat, and a member of the Methodist Church. Francis M. 
Pringle died in Florida in 1921 and his wife in Mississippi 
in 1922.  Of their ten children eight are now living, Enoch M. 
being the sixth in age.  He and his brother Crawford are the 
only ones at Glenmora, Louisiana, Crawford being manager of a 
local picture theatre.

Enoch M. Pringle attended public schools at Washington and Mobile, 
Alabama, and his early working experience was in the woods and 
around the stills in the manufacture of turpentine, in 1909 he 
came to Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, manufacturing turpentine, 
with headquarters at Hecker.  For the past ten years he has been 
regarded as the largest individual operator in this industry, 
having had 65,000 acres of pine land under lease at one time.  
Mr. Pringle is also a director of the Bank of Glenmora, is 
president of the Pelican Motor Company of Glenmora; is president 
of Maxwell & Pringle, operating a general store; and does a large 
amount of real estate business and operates a farm as a side issue.  
In 1924 it was estimated that his crop of sweet potatoes would total 
50,000 bushels.

Mr. Pringle married, January 22, 1904, Miss Lena Ehlers, a native 
of Mississippi.  They have six children:  Enoch M., a graduate of 
high school;  Harry T., attending high school;  Guy Monroe;  Allen 
and  Mabel, all in grammar school; and  Lena.  Mrs. Pringle is a 
member of the Lutheran Church, while he is affiliated with the 
Methodist denomination and one of the stewards of the church of
Glenmora.  He is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and 
is Knight Hawk of the southern branch of the K. K. K.  He is a
democrat and has served as alderman at Glenmora, being now a 
member of the local school board.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p.90 , by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and 
New York, 1925.