Price, Marion F. 1869 – 1948
PRICE, MERIMAN, WISE, VAN VLIET, ELINGSON, LANDON
Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 4/25/2015 at 12:31:57
MARION F. PRICE.
Marion F. Price is an enterprising farmer, operating a farm of two hundred and forty acres, located on sections 26 and 27, Burr Oak township. He is one of the county's native sons, for his birth occurred in Locust, Pleasant township, November 19, 1869. He is the fourth in order of birth in a family of eight children, the parents being Daniel and Nancy (Wise) Price, the former born in Vestal Center, New York, May 17, 1832, and the latter in Venango county, Pennsylvania, November 26, 1835. Mrs. Price went to Illinois with her parents, Samuel and Phoebe (Meriman) Wise and after spending two years in the Prairie state they continued their journey westward, locating in Winneshiek county, the year of their arrival here being 1857. Mr. Price had come to the county the previous year and they were married here February 24, 1859. He died here on the 29th of November, 1907, at the advanced age of seventy-five years, but the mother still survives and yet resides on the home place with our subject. Although she is now seventy-eight years of age, she is very active for one of her years. During the past two years she has caught two hundred and sixty-seven gophers on the farm, receiving from the county the usual bounty of ten cents per pair for the front claws. By her marriage she became the mother of eight children, namely: James, of Decorah, Iowa; Lucy, twin sister of James, the wife of E. H. Van Vliet, of Stevensville, Montana; Robert, a resident of Decorah; Marion F., of this review; Jane, the wife of E. E. Elingson, of Charleston, North Dakota; Edward, who died when a young man of twenty-four years; George, of Reedpoint. Montana; and David, also a resident of Decorah, Iowa.
Marion F. Price was reared in much the usual manner of farm lads, assisting in the work of the fields and the cultivation of crops during the planting and harvesting seasons, while in the winter months he pursued his studies in the district schools. He is now operating the home farm for his mother, having under his direction two hundred and forty acres, located on sections 26 and 27, Burr Oak township. He thoroughly understands his work, uses modern methods in carrying on his agricultural pursuits and his labors are annually rewarded by golden harvests.
It was on the 12th of March, 1895, that an important event in the life of Mr. Price occurred—that of his marriage to Miss Alice Landon, who was born in Burr Oak township, February 25, 1870, a daughter of Z. B. Landon, now residing in Burr Oak. She has by her marriage become the mother of one daughter, Florence.
Mr. Price supports the men and measures of the republican party and at the present time is serving as township assessor, while he has also filled the positions of clerk and trustee of the township. His fraternal relations connect him with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has spent his entire life in Winneshiek county and his present place of residence has been his home since 1874. He therefore has a wide acquaintance and is well liked wherever he is known.
Source: History of Winneshiek County, Iowa Vol. II Chicago the S. J. Clark Publishing Company 1913
Burr Oak Cemetery gravestone
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