BIO: PRINCEHOUSE, WILLIAM 1913 SHELBY COUNTY OHIO

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1913 History of Shelby County.  Hitchcock.

page 441


Wiliam H. Princehouse, funeral director, who has been established in 
the business at Sidney, O., since
March 1898 was born near Palestine,  in Green Township, Shelby 
County, O., May 19, 1866 and is a son
of Jacob and Mary (Bratigan) Princehouse.  Henry Princehouse, the 
grandfather, who was born in 
Germany, was the founder of the family in Shelby County, and Jacob 
Princehouse, his son, was born in
Green Township, south of Palestine, O., spent his life as a farmer 
and died there.  His widow survies and
lives at Palestine, SHelby Co. 
  
William H. Princehouse attended the country schools in Green township 
and afterward engaged in
farming, residing on his own property until 1898, when he came to 
Sidney, for four years afterward
being in the livery business. For the past ten years he has been in 
the funeral directing business, being 
a practical embalmer, a graduate of Clarke's School of Embalming of 
Cincinnati.  He has well-equipped
quarters in the Bingham furniture store and owns a funeral car, an 
ambulance and an automobile for the
proper and dignified transaction of his business.  He is identifed 
with all the leading fraternal
organizations, including the Masons, Odd Fellows, Elks, Red Men, 
Uniformed Knights of Pythias, and the
Knights of Khorassan.  He belongs to the Commercial Club at Sidney 
and is interested in some degree in
political matters.  Personally, Mr. Princehouse has a wide circle 
of friends on account of his friendly
and kindly spirit and as a business man he is held in respect.