Pringle, Benjamin
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 9, 1807, in Richfield, N. Y. He moved to Batavia, N.
Y., in 1830, and attained success as an able lawyer. He held the office of judge in the court of common pleas, and was a member of the thirty-third and thirty-fourth congresses. He served in the assembly in 1862, and in 1863 was appointed by President Lincoln a judge under a treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade. He died June 7, 1887.