Young Prince started his career working in nurseries run by his father and brother.

The nurseries were sold at the end of the Civil War, and he studied law at Columbia University, where he received an LL.B.

[1] He passed on that option but later became a chief justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court from 1878 to 1882.

Prince and his wife, Mary, resided in the Palace of the Governors and held social functions there.

[3] Prince led the movement to create the Spanish American Normal School and served as President of its governing board from 1909 to 1912.