Della Pringle

[1] Born Cora Della Van Winkle in Trenton, Missouri, she began her professional career at age one playing juvenile roles for the Robert Neff Chicago Comedly Company.

Pringle became a star attraction in the western half of the United States during the late 19th century, amassing a fortune in the traveling repertory theater business and claim to be "the actress who made Iowa famous.

[5] Newspaper accounts said that Pringle never appeared in a Broadway product, never claimed to be a great actress, and stated that he had no acting training.

However, they notes her natural talents in acting, singing and dancing, her well formed figure, her long golden hair, her well featured face and her witty, vibrant personality[6][7] made her a star in the small towns, mining camps, logging camps, military outposts and cow towns of the West.

On Pringle's only tour through the American Northeast and New England, the press found her to be the equal of any eastern repertory actress.

She also pursued farming, real estate investing, rooming house management, millinery, running a costume rental business, drama education and Boston bulldog breeding.

[12] Early in her career she used her sewing skills to create her own costumes,[13] but by 1898 she made a practice to purchase imported Parisian fashions from major clothiers in New York and Chicago.