[1] He studied law with his cousin, Horace Gerald Prindle of Unadilla, was admitted to the bar in 1854 and began to practice.

[1] Prindle later moved to Norwich, New York, where he continued to practice law.

[1] Originally a Whig, and later a Republican, he was district attorney of Chenango County, New York from 1860 to 1862.

[1] At the start of the American Civil War he was one of several leading citizens in Norwich who worked to raise a company for the Union Army, which was mustered in as Company H, 17th New York Volunteer Infantry.

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