BIOGRAPHY: Newton PRYCE, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 363
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NEWTON PRYCE, a farmer and carpenter of Cambria township, Cambria county, 
Pennsylvania, is a son of John Pryce, deceased.
     The father was a son of William Pryce, and was born in Cambria township, 
and died December, 1866, on the home farm, in the northeastern part of the same 
township.
     He was a member of the Congregational church, and an extensive farmer, 
owning two hundred and twenty-five acres of good farm land.
     He was married to Miss Catharine Jones, and had five sons and two 
daughters: William, David and Evan are all farmers on the old homestead; Samuel 
is an employee in the planing-mill of Willie Bros., Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; 
Susan is a dressmaker in Ebensburg, and Mary is at home.
     The ancestors of Newton Pryce are of Welsh origin, and were among the early 
settlers of this locality, two facts in evidence of their being steady, sturdy 
people. 
       Our subject received his education in the common schools of his township, 
and has followed the carpenter trade for only a few years, the most of his life 
having been spent on the farm.