Bio of Henry PRIGGE (d.1910), Wright Co., MN ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Diane Hanson ========================================================================= This Bio is from the HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY, Volumes I and II, Published in 1915 by Franklin Curtiss - Wedge. Surname Index for The HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY can be found at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/wright/wright.html Under HISTORY. NOTE: This file was scanned and changed to text so there may be some typos. 466 HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY Henry Prigge, a pioneer, was born in Hamburg, Germany, son of John Henry Prigge. He was reared and educated in Germany, and was there married. In 1870, with his wife and son, Herman J., he started for the United States. The voyage was made aboard an old sailing vessel, and it was six weeks from the time they embarked until they landed. They came across the country to St. Paul and from there to Victor township, where they secured sixty acres in section 14, on the banks of Lake Ann. This tract was mostly woods, though a clearing had been made, a few apple trees planted, and a log cabin and log barn erected. Mr. Prigge started farming with an ox team and two cows. He was well on the road to success when one night in the coldest part of the winter the buildings were burned to the ground. But he reconstructed the buildings, and continued to live there for a short time. Later he moved to a tract of 120 acres in section 15, Middleville. A road led past the place but the tract itself was covered with woods and no buildings had been erected. He erected a house of hewed logs, which is still a part of the present residence, and put up a barn large enough for two horses and two cows. He added forty acres in section 16, cleared up the place, added a frame house to the log cabin, enlarged the barn, erected shed and made other improvements. He raised general crops and went extensively into stock raising. When the first Lutheran meeting in this vicinity was held in the first house erected on the shores of Dutch lake, he attended, and he later became an officer of the Lutheran church at Howard Lake. Being active in all progressive moves, he was a stockholder in the Howard Lake Co-operative Creamery and in the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Middleville. He was also the first man to erect a silo in the county, in 1900. Mr. Prigge died August 10, 1910. Henry Prigge married Dorothy Prohl, also a native of Germany. They had seven children: Herman J., Charlotte, Theodore, Bernard, Ella, Pauline and Henry.