Walthall Wooldridge Price, D. D. S. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 430-431 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				WALTHALL WOOLDRIDGE PRICE, D. D. S. 

	Dr. Walthall Wooldridge Price, the pioneer dentist of 
Centerville, where he has been engaged in practice continuously since 
the spring of 1898, is well known in professional circles throughout 
the state. His birth occurred at Dillons Mills, Virginia, on the 3d of 
December, 1871, his parents being Ferdinand and Lucinda Catherine 
Price, both of whom have passed away. The paternal grandfather of our 
subject held the rank of major in the Revolutionary army under 
Lafayette, and the famous general called on him when visiting the 
United States in 1824. Ferdinand Price, who was an agriculturist by 
occupation' served as a lieutenant in the Confederate army during the 
Civil war. 

	Walthall W. Price acquired his early education in an old log 
schoolhouse in the south and later spent a year in an academy. 
Subsequently he followed the profession of teaching for a few years and 
then entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, from which 
institution he was graduated in 1897. He first practiced in Virginia 
for a year and in the spring of 1898 removed to Centerville, South 
Dakota, opening his office on the 11th of March.

	He was then the only representative of the profession in the town 
and has there remained continuously since, his practice growing with 
the population of the district. His ability has won him enviable 
recognition among the representatives of the dental fraternity 
throughout the state and he is a popular member of the South Dakota 
State Dental Association, attending all of its meetings and having 
served as its secretary and treasurer. He has invested largely in real 
estate and is now the owner of considerable property. 
On the 16th of May, 1900, Dr. Price was united in marriage to Miss Elia 
Newsome, of North Carolina, by whom he has two children, Virginia 
Carolina and Mary Kathryn. He gives his political allegiance to the 
democratic party and has ably served his fellow townsmen in the 
capacity of alderman. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons and 
the Ancient Order of United Workmen, while his religious faith is that 
of the Baptist church. He is a man of easy dignity, frank and cordial 
in address and possessing that confidence and courage which rightly 
come from conscious personal ability, a correct conception of things 
and an habitual regard for what is best in the exercise of human 
activities.