U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Price, Gideon (b. 1835) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Pages 539-540 Gideon Price's connection with this town began one-half century ago, when he came here from his native county - Monongalia - as a carpenter and builder; and it continued for a number of years, until he removed to Harrisville where he is now spending the eventide of his life in his pretty home on North street. Mr. Price is the son of Caleb Price, who was a native of New Jersey, and his mother was a Miss Barbe of Virginia. He was born on February 4, 1835, and on January 26, 1855, he was married to Miss Rhoda Ann Yeager, daughter of John B. Yeager, of Monongalia county; and on April 1, 1859, they came to Ellenboro. He served as United States Internal Revenue collector for seven years, and has been a most prominent figure in church and Sunday-school circles, he having been a life long Sunday-school worker and an official member of the Methodist Episcopal church for forty-seven years. His wife died on March 15, 1907, and sleeps at Harrisville, but their three children survive; viz., Rosalie, the eldest daughter, is the widow of J. W. Pritchard, and at Parkersburg, she lives; Laura is Mrs. W. F. King, of Denver, Colorado; and Charles, the second child, and only son, is a business man of Denver. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------