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RICHARD PRICE
MR. PRESIDENT—Your committee which was appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character and services of Richard Price of Madison county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:
Richard Price was born in Freeport, Ohio, February 28, 1848. His father was a farmer, and the son attended school in what time he was not occupied in the duties on the farm. Being an apt pupil in school he made rapid advancement, especially in the English branches.
About 1861 his parents removed to Iowa, and settled in the south part of Union township, Dallas county. He remained at home with his father, working summers and attending school winters until seventeen years of age.
In the spring of 1869 he entered the employ of Getchell & Sons, lumber dealers in Dexter, Iowa, remaining in that city about two years. He then was placed in charge of the firm’s business in Earlham. Four years later this firm placed him in charge of another branch of their business at Colfax. In 1878 he was transferred to Winterset, and had charge of their business at that place until the spring of 1879 when he in connection with Fred Strong bought out this business and continued it under the firm name of Strong & Price.
Mr. Price was married September 14, 1871, to Miss Martha Camblin, of Dayton, Ohio, and their family consisted of three children, one of whom died in 1876.
Mr. Price was a man of cultivation, well informed, a good speaker, clothing his ideas·in appropriate words of which he had a ready command.
He was elected to the Iowa State Senate in 1886 and served during the 22nd and 23rd sessions.
He died after having suffered from two strokes of paralysis, in Mt. Vernon, New York, May 5, 1922.
ED. M. SMITH,
GEO. S. HARTMAN,
H. J. MANTZ.
The report was adopted unanimously.