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James Pringle, president of the Milwaukee Casket Company, was born November 9, 1867, in Ontario, Canada, his parents being James and Mary Jane (Walker) Pringle. He acquired his education largely in the schools of his native country, pursuing his studies there to the age of thirteen years, when he went to Chicago, where he made his initial step in the business world by securing the position of office boy. He worked his way upward to a clerkship on the Chicago Board of Trade and afterward returned to Ontario, where for ten years he operated a flour mill, developing a business of substantial proportions there. At the end of the decade he disposed of his mill and turned his attention to the manufacture of clothing in Ontario, his output being handled by the ready-made clothing dealers. He devoted about ten years of his life to this business and then, selling his plant, removed to Milwaukee, where he succeeded his brother in the Milwaukee Casket Company on the 2nd of January, 1919. His brother, Thomas J., was secretary and manager of the company up to the time of his death in May, 1918, and James Pringle is the president and manager. The business was founded in 1875, has since been incorporated and its annual sales now amount to four hundred thousand dollars. The founder of the enterprise was D. R. Johnson, who remained as president to the time of his death in 1907. The secretary and treasurer of the company is H. Nauman, who has been associated with the business for more than thirty years, while one of the employees has been with the house for forty-seven years, and a number of others have been in the employ of the, concern from twenty to thirty years. There has never been a labor strike during the entire existence of the business. The company Insures the lives of its employees and the most harmonious relations have always existed because of the fairness and justice maintained toward those in their service and the fact that a good wage has always been paid. The business is now one of the large Industrial Interests of Milwaukee and Mr. Pringle is proving himself a splendid executive in control of the enterprise as Its president.

Fraternally Mr. Pringle is well known as a Mason, being a loyal follower of the teachings and purposes of the craft. He is also a member of the Rotary Club and his appreciation of the social amenities of life is shown in his connection with the Milwaukee Athletic Club and the Ozaukee Country Club.