Price, Aaron Ogden 1836-1912

PRICE, FERGUSON, HARTSOCK

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 6/2/2011 at 08:18:09

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; Nov. 26, 1912

OBITUARY.

DEACON A.O. PRICE

Deacon Price whose death occurred last Thursday, had been for 20 years a resident of Grinnell and in that time had become well and favorably known and universally esteemed.

Aaron Ogden Price was born in Cayuga County, New York, Sept. 18, 1836, the youngest of eight children. In early life he attended Ithaca Academy, moving to Illinois in 1856. After a year of teaching in the West he returned to New York, and continued the work of a teacher. He afterward went to Minnesota, working in the lumber mill and afterward alternated teaching and farming a number of years.

About the middle of the sixties Mr. Price located on a farm near Iowa City Iowa, and in 1868 was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Ferguson of St. Johns, Mich. Her death occurred soon afterward. October 9, 1873, he was married to Miss Amy Hartsock of Iowa City, who with his daughter, Miss Ellen Price survives him.

In 1892 they moved to Grinnell, and here he was proven a very useful citizen. He became an active member of the Congregational church and during nearly all of his residence here has been one of its deacons. For nine years he has been city assessor and had been regarded as efficient. He had been active in many other ways in public life.

In his private life he had been all a useful citizen could be, cheerful, courteous, capable, ever ready and willing, one among a multitude. He goes to his grave mourned by a very large circle of warm friends who attested his usefulness and pay devoted tribute to his memory.

Funeral services were held at the church at 10:30 o'clock Saturday morning, deacons and ex-deacons acting as bearers. The singing was by a quartet composed of Mrs. Snook, Miss Bartlett, Fred Morrison and George Walker. Professor Charles Noble spoke of Deacon Price as a friend, and Rev. P.F. Marston spoke from the pastor's viewpoint.