Edward Price

PRICE, CUFFEL, NEWTON, WEST, MCCAFFREE, DAVIS, OLIVER

Posted By: Peter Gausmann (email)
Date: 1/8/2010 at 04:55:59

EDWARD PRICE

Edward Price is successfully engaged in farming on one hundred and six acres of good land in Norway township adjoining Lake Mills and upon that place his birth occurred on the 25th of May, 1879. He is the only son of James and Caroline (Cuffel) Price, of Scotch-Irish and Scotch descent, respectively. The maternal grandmother was Rebecca Newton, a direct descendant of Isaac Newton, who came to America on the Mayflower. The father was born a short time after the emigration of his parents to the United States, on the 18th of May, 1836, at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. His father became a member of the regular army and was stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, where he died. Subsequently the mother married George West and they removed to Mitchell county, Iowa, where she passed away. James Price was reared in Mitchell county and at the outbreak of the Civil war, in 1861, enlisted in the Fourteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry and was in active service until the restoration of peace. He then returned to Iowa and, going to Lake Mills, purchased forty acres of land west of Lake Mills, but he subsequently sold this tract and bought eighty acres, also west of Lake Mills, and nine years later his son Edward purchased twenty-six acres adjoining, making a farm of one hundred and six acres on which our subject still resides. The father cultivated this land for many years but at length retired and removed to Lake Mills, where he died on the 12th of April, 1913. He was buried in the Hinman Park cemetery. His wife still resides in Lake Mills. To them were born three children: Mrs. C. E. McCaffree, of Lake Mills; Nettie, who is teaching in the schools of Lake Mills; and Edward.

The last named attended school in Lake Mills until he was sixteen years old and for five years thereafter worked for his father upon the home farm, but on attaining his majority became his father's partner in the operation of the place and so continued until 1907, when his parents removed to Lake Mills, leaving him in entire charge of the farm. He now owns the place, which is well improved and which is rendered more valuable because of its good location. He has erected a number of fine buildings of the most improved design and keeps everything upon the farm in excellent condition. He raises high grade stock and has met with gratifying success in that connection as well as in the growing of grain.

Mr. Price was married June 4, 1907, to Miss Mary Davis, a daughter of John W. and Kate (Oliver) Davis, the former a native of Wales and the latter of Scotland. After their removal to America they lived in various places in the United States but since 1903 have been residents of Lake Mills. To Mr. and Mrs. Price have been born two children, Shirley E. and Kathlyn M.

The religious faith of the parents is indicated by their connection with the Methodist Episcopal church, whose work profits by their keen interest therein. Mr. Price endorses the principles of the republican party but although loyal in the support of its candidates has never been an office seeker. He has concentrated his energies upon his farm work and in so doing has gained a competence and has also contributed to the agricultural development of his locality.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. pp. 319-320.