PRICE, Dillon

PRICE

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/30/2021 at 15:48:06

Dillon Price
Dillon Price, dealer in hardware, paints and harness, at Arthur, Ida County, was born in Harford County, Maryland, May 26, 1858, a son of Moses D. and Ann W. (Wright) Price, the former a native of Maryland, and the latter of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. In 1876 the father located near West Liberty, Muscatine County, Iowa, and in 1880 in Ida County, where he died in 1883. His wife still resides at Ida Grove, Ida County. They were the parents of four children: Martha P., wife of William Jarrett, of Ida county; Dillon, our subject; Mary H., wife of Harry Conard, of Ida Grove; and Morris B. who died in this county in 1883.
Dillon Price, the subject of this sketch, was reared in Maryland to the age of sixteen years, when he located in Cedar County, Iowa, in 1876. In 1880 he settled in Silver Creek township, Ida County, and the following year to Blaine township. He owns eighty acres of well cultivated land in this township, has a good, one and a half story residence, 18 x 26 feet, a barn, 18 x 24 feet, and two acres of his place is devoted to an orchard and ornamental trees. In 1891 Mr. Price purchased the hardware business of P. W. Larson, in this city, where he now has a fine trade. Politically, he formerly took an active part in the Republican party, but now votes with the People’s party. Socially, he is a member of the Modern Woodsmen, of Ida Grove.
Mr. Price was married in Ida county, in 1886, to Miss Ella J. Perry, a native of Illinois, and a daughter of E. D. and Sarah (Hamis) Perry, natives of New York State, but who have resided in Arthur since 1891. Our subject and wife have two children: Eunice and Elmira. Mr. Price has witnessed many changes in Ida county, has endured many hardships and privations, has always taken an active interest in the upbuilding of his township and county, and now has a large and paying trade.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.489