Price, Andrew – Prime, Benjamin Young
Price, Andrew
lawyer, planter, congressman, was born April 2, 1854, in Chatsworth plantation, La. He was elected from Louisiana to the fifty-first congress to fill a vacancy. He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Price, Bruce
architect, author, was born Sept. 12, 1845, in Cumberland, Md.
He is an architect of New York city; and the author of A Large Country House.
Price, Curtis E
surgeon, was born Sept. 25, 1840, in Letimbreville, Ohio. He entered the army as surgeon, and was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallant conduct at the battle of Nashville; served with the army of the Cumberland until the close of the war; and since 1867 has been in the regular service of the United States army as surgeon.
Price, E. B
poet. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Beulah.
Price, Eli Kirk
lawyer, author, was born July 20, 1797, in Bradford, Pa. He was a Philadelphia lawyer of prominence and the author of Law of Limitations and Liens against Real Estate. He died Nov. 14, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Price, George Edmund
lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 9, 1848, in Moorefield, W. Va. He is a prominent lawyer of Charleston, W. Va. During 1883-90 he was a state senator of the West Virginia legislature, and in 1885-87 was president of that body.
Price, George Washington Fer- Gus
educator, was born Sept. 24, 1830, in Butler county, Ala. In 1872 he became president of the Methodist Female college at Huntsville, Ala., resigning in 1880, when he removed to Nashville, Tenn., and established there the Nashville College for Young Ladies.
Price, Hiram
public official, congressman, was born Jan. 10, 1814, in Washington county, Pa. He was president of the State bank of Iowa from 1859 to 1866; and was paymaster-general of Iowa during the civil war. He was elected a representative from Iowa to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, fortyfifth, and forty-sixth congresses. He was president of the Davenport and St. Paul Railroad company.
Price, Hugh H
merchant, congressman, was born Dec. 2, 1859, in Black River Falls, Wis. He is engaged in milling and lumber business in Black River Falls, Wis.; and was elected to the fortyninth congress as a republican to fill a vacancy.
Price, Ira Maurice
educator, author, was born in 1856 in Ohio. He is an educator of Chicago, professor of Semitic languages in the university of Chicago from 1892; and the author of Syllabus of Old Testament History.
Price, Rodman Mccauley
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born May 5, 1816, in Sussex county, N. J. He was appointed purser in the navy in 1840; and is said to have been the first person to exercise judicial functions under the American flag on the Pacific coast, as alcalde. In 1848 he was made naval agent for the Pacific coast; was a representative in congress from his native state from 1851 to 1853; and was subsequently elected governor of New Jersey. He caused the establishment in that state of a normal school, and did much to improve the militia of the state. He was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861.
Price, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, United States senator, was born Aug. 18, 1805, in Fauquier county, Va.
He served several terms in the Virginia state legislature; and in 1863 was elected lieutenant-governor of Virginia, holding the office until the close of the civil war.
In 1876 he was appointed United States senator, serving about two months. He died Feb. 25, 1884, in Leesburg, Va.
Price, Sterling
soldier, congressman, governor, was born Sept. 12, 1809, in Prince Edward county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Missouri from 1845 to 1847; and was governor of that state from 1853 to 1857. He was identified with the great rebellion of 1861 as a major-general. He died Sept. 29, 1867, in St. Louis, Mo.
Price, Theophilus Townsend
physician, author, poet, was born May 21, 1828, in Cape May county, N. J. Since 1879 he has been acting assistant surgeon in the United States marine hospital service, the first and only appointment of the kind in New Jersey. He has served in the New Jersey legislature. He is the author of the entire historical and descriptive part of the Historical and Biographical Atlas of the New Jersey Coast.
Price, Thomas Lawson
congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1809, near Danville, Va. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-seventh congress. He died July 15, 1870, in Lexington, Mo.
Price, Thomas Randolph
educator, author, was born in 1839 in Virginia.
He is a professor of English literature at Columbia college from 1882; and the author of The Teaching of the Mother Tongue; and Shakespeare's Verse Construction.
Price, Titus Ellsworth
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 18, 1861, in Solon, Ohio. For three successive terms he was city treasurer of Highmore, S. D.; during 1887-91 was superintendent of public instruction for Hyde county; and in 1891-93 was state's attorney for the same county. In 1893 he was a member of the South Dakota house of representatives; and in 1895 was a delegate to the national republican league convention held in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1895 he moved to Yankton, S. D., where he is engaged in the practice of law, and very prominent in political affairs.
Price, Walter
farmer, politician, writer, was born July 19, 1860, in Marshall county, Iowa. He is a successful farmer of Milford, S. D.; a writer on economic questions from the farmer's standpoint; and for ten years has been a correspondent of the Dakota Ruralist and other reform papers. He has been postmaster of his city, and held various other offices; has been chairman of the county committee; a member of the state committee of the people's party of South Dakota; and was the nominee for state senator in 1892.
Price, William P
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 29, 1835, in Dahlonega, Ga. He practiced law at Greenville, S. C., and was a member of the state legislature in 1864-66. He returned to Georgia in 1866, and was a member of the legislature of Georgia in 1868. He was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-first congress, and was re-elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Price, William Thomas
clergyman, author, was born July 19, 1830, near Marlinton, W. Va. He was prepared for college at the Hillsboro academy, and graduated in 1854 from Washington college, now called the Washington and Lee university, receiving a forty-dollar gold medal as the first honor graduate. In 1857 he completed his theological studies at the Union Theological seminary, and was licensed the same year to preach.
His time has since been devoted mainly to the ministry of the presbyterian church -for forty years-twelve years as home missionary in Bath and Highland counties, Va.; sixteen years as pastor in Cooke's Creek church in Rockingham, Va., and twelve years as pastor in Huntersville and Marlinton churches. He has contributed extensively to religious literature; and is the author of several published works.
Price, William Thompson
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born June 17, 1824, in Barre township, Pa. He was judge of Jackson county, Wis., once by election and once by appointment, and was a representative in the state legislature in 1851 and 1852. He was a state senator in 1857, 1870, 1871,1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881. He was collector of internal revenue from 1863 to 1865. was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses. He died Dec. 6, 1886, in Eau Claire, Wis.
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Prickett, Henry E
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Feb. 1, 1829, in England. He was county judge of Jackson county, Wis., from 1856 to 1860, and was a representative in the state legislature in 1858. He settled in Idaho territory; was a member of the council of the territorial legislature in 1875, and in 1876 was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Idaho, and was reappointed in 1880.
Prickett, Jacob P
journalist, poet, was born May 10, 1836, in Benton, Ind.
He is the editor of the Albion New Era of his native state, and is the author of a number of poems.
Pridemore, Auburn Lorenzo
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born June 27, 1837, in Scott county, Va. He was elected to the Virginia assembly in 1865, but the close of the war annulled the election. He practiced law in Jonesville, Va.; was a state senator from 1871 to 1875, and was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Priest, Henry Samuel
jurist, was born Feb. 7, 1853, in Ralls county, Mo.
In 1894 he was appointed United States district judge for the eastern district of Missouri.
Priest, Josiah
author, was born about 1790 in New York. He was a harness-maker of New York state, some of whose books were very popular. He was the author of Wonders of Nature; View of the Millennium; Stories of the Revolution; American Antiquities; and Slavery in the Light of History and Scripture. He died about 1850.
Prime, Benjamin Young
physician, author, poet, was born Dec. 20, 1733, in Huntington, L. I. He was a physician of Huntington, L. I., who wrote patriotic verses during the revolutionary period.
The Patriot Muse, published in 1764, includes his earlier poems. Columbia's Glory, or British Pride Humbled, is a long poem printed in 1791. He died Oct. 31, 1791, in Huntington, N. Y.