Jessamine-Bourbon-Clark County KyArchives Biographies.....Price, Daniel B. 1789 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com August 6, 2007, 2:56 pm Author: Bennett H. Young Maj. Daniel B. Price. Maj. Daniel B. Price was born in Powhattan county, Virginia, the 11th day of May, 1789. His father, John Price, removed to Kentucky in 1794, taking with him Daniel, his only son, and purchased 1,200 acres of land in Bourbon county. The title proving defective, he afterwards removed to Clark county, where he lived to the extreme old age of ninety years. When a boy, Major Price came to Nicholasville and was appointed deputy clerk for Samuel H. Woodson, and when Mr. Woodson resigned, in 1816, he succeeded him and held the office, giving entire satisfaction until 1851, a period of thirty-five years, which is the longest period any one office was ever held by the same man in the county. In 1813 he married Eliza Crockett, the fourth child of Col. Joseph Crockett, who died during a cholera epidemic in 1832. He subsequently married Miss Stuart, daughter of Rev. Robert Stuart. He was a member of the Presbyterian church in Nicholasville and for half a century a ruling elder. He was also a trustee of Center College and one of the directors of the Theological Seminary at Danville. Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge said of him: "Probably no citizen of Jessamine county was ever more generally and favorably known, and certainly no one was ever more thoroughly respected. A man resolute for God's saving truth in proportion as his meek and gentle spirit, he lived upon it as his life arid soul." He won and retained the respect and confidence of the entire community. He was looked up to as a man of splendid judgment and unswerving integrity. Noble memories of his life and character survive after a lapse of nearly forty years. Additional Comments: Extracted from: A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898. By BENNETT H. YOUNG, PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC. S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR. Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot be measured in money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care. LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/jessamine/bios/price398gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/