[1] He attained admission to the bar in Caledonia County, Vermont in 1832, and began to practice in Waitsfield.

[1] While residing in Perkinsville Pingry served in local offices including justice of the peace, master in chancery and assistant town clerk.

[5][6][7] Interested in education, Pingry was a founder and board of trustees member of the Vermont Academy in Saxtons River.

[14] Pingry also researched and wrote a family history, 1881's A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Moses Pengry, of Ipswich, Mass.

[1] Samuel E. Pingree, who received the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War and served as Governor of Vermont, was his nephew.