Richard Price

CAMBLIN, PRICE

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 17:49:23

Richard Price, Winterset; born in Freeport, Ohio, February 28, 1848; his parents being R. K. and Mary (nee Michonor) Price; his father was a farmer, and what time the son was not occupied in duties on the farm, attended school; being an apt scholar he made rapid advancement in the English branches; about this time, in 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, when he commenced to battle with life on his own account; he was engaged in teaching and farming until the spring of 1869, when he entered the employ of Getchell & Sons, lumber dealers, in Dexter, remaining in that city about two years; in 1871 he was placed in charge of that firm’s business in Earlham, Madison county, and lived there four years; the firm at this time recognizing his ability, placed him in charge of another branch of their business at Colfax, Jasper Co.; this business he managed successfully until the fall of 1878, when he was transferred to this city, and had charge of their business until the spring of 1879, when he, in connection with Fred. Strong, bought out and continued the business under the firm name of Strong & Price; Mr. Price was married September 14, 1871, to Miss Martha Camblin, a native of Dayton, Ohio; their family consists of two children: Raymond M. and Paul L.; they lost one daughter, Nellie, April 5, 1876; Mr. Price is a man of cultivation, well informed, a good speaker, clothing his ideas in appropriate words of which he has a ready command.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 548, 549