BIOGRAPHIES:  Miles Durand PRINDLE, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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MILES DURAND PRINDLE, liveryman and railroad contractor, was born in
Derby, New Haven Co., Conn,, Sept. l6, 1835. He went to Northampton,
Mass., at sixteen years of age, and learned the trade of tinner. In
1855, he came to Lyons, Iowa, then to Fulton, and June 27, 1856, came
to the place where now is the village of Durand, where he has since
resided. Pleased with the location, he bought a tract and laid it out
into village lots, and had it recorded as the village of Durand, after
his middle name. He has been a member of the Village Board several
times, and now is Chairman; also a member of the County Board. He is
also a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the United Workmen. He
ran a very light draft steamer, the "Idell Prindle." between Eau Claire
and La Crosse for some time, the lightest draft of any steamer on the
Chippewa. He operated the first mail route from Alma to Eau Claire, and
has been quite largely interested in mail routes in this section of the
country most of the time since. He started in the mercantile business
when he first came to Durand, in June, 1857. Then he engaged in the
hardware trade and steamboating. He has just finished grading the first
mile of railroad in Pepin County, on the Chippewa Valley Railroad, just
below Durand. He was married, May 8, 1860, to Miss Ida M. Ide, daughter
of F. J. Ide, Esq., of Naples, Buffalo Co., Wis. Have had one child,
Idell, who died at five years of age,

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 702


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