John J. Price Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	JOHN J. PRICE, one of the pioneers and highly esteemed citizens of 
Faulk county, is a native of Wales and a scion of stanch old Welsh stock. 
He was born in Mothvey, Carmarthenshire, on the 24th of January, 1860, 
and is a son of John W. and Guenllein (Joseph) Price, troth of whom were 
born and reared in the same section of southern Wales, where the 
respective families have been established from the time ,when the 
"memory of man runneth not to the contrary." In 1868 his parents 
immigrated to America and settled near Iowa City, Iowa, where they 
remained until 1872, when they took up their residence in Williamsburg, 
Iowa county, Iowa, while in 1876 they removed to Jefferson, Greene 
county, Iowa, where the father was engaged in farming until his death, 
which occurred on the 26th of April, 1903, at the venerable age of 
eighty-three years. He was a man of inflexible integrity, keeping 
himself "unspotted from the world," and living a life of honor and 
usefulness. His widow still resides near Jefferson, being seventy-seven 
years of age at the time of this writing, in 1904. The subject received 
his educational training in the public schools of Iowa, and continued to 
be associated with his father in the conduct of his business affairs 
until he had attained his legal majority, when he initiated his 
independent career. In March 1883, he came to what is now the state of 
South Dakota and filed entry on the northwest quarter of section 10 
township 120, range 68, in Faulk county, which original homestead is an 
integral portion of his present landed estate. He surveyed his own land, 
as only a small portion of the land had been surveyed by the government 
at the time, and his residence is lo-1:ated on this original claim. He 
is now the owner of twelve hundred and eighty acres of most fertile and 
productive land, improved with substantial and attractive buildings, the 
property being unencumbered of debt, while he is also the owner of a 
nice residence in the city of Aberdeen, his intention being to utilize 
the same as a family home during the period when his children are to 
avail themselves of the educational advantages there afforded. He 
devotes his attention to diversified agriculture and the raising of a 
high grade of live stock, and is the owner of two modern steam threshing 
machines, which he keeps in active operation each autumn. In politics he 
is an uncompromising Republican, and he has served two terms as county 
commissioner, being chairman of the board for a portion of each term. He 
is identified with Camp No. 2692, Modern Woodmen of America, at Ipswich, 
in which he carries an insurance of three thousand dollars.  

	On the 8th of June, 1888, Mr. Price was united in marriage to Miss 
Lotta M. Scott, who was born in Manchester, Iowa, on the 14th of August, 
1867, being a daughter of Thomas B. and Emma (Pratt) Scott. Mr. and Mrs. 
Price have five children, whose names and respective dates of birth are 
here entered: Joseph, August 29, 1889; Florence, August 30, 1891; 
Howard, October 13, 1893; Marie, October 8, 1895; and Forrest, August 7, 
1898.