Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-08-17
EDWARD r. PRICE.
Tribute to Native OF Brattlcboro
who Died Recently In Chicago.


who Died Recently In Chicago.
Edward Root Price was born in this vii
lage, Nov. 3, 1913. He was the son of
Samuel II. and Catherine Root Price, and
grandson of Samuel and Catherine Sar-
gent Root; all living home at the time,
but whose bodies are now all laid away IN
the cemetery on the hill.
Leaving for Chicago in 1856, as a boy of
10. he became resident there and with
short interruptions remained such till his
death.
AT the opening of the war of the Rebel
lion he left school and enlisted as a private
in the Qlh Illinois cavalry, was promoted
to a sergantcy, lost his health and was dis
charged after two years service.
His business activities were untarnished
I'D to 1890, when he abandoned every
thing in that line, save the management of
real estate in which he was interested.
This occupied his failing health and
strength up to the time of his death
OF a retiring and unobtrusive nature his
advice and help were sought and freely
given in works of charity, civic reform,
etc, as that he made his mark, though
quietly, in the community in which he liv-
ed. In every relation in life he stood
"four square" 10 the world. His life
spelt "Integrity." His standard of char
acter was high and it was lived up to.
He believed in his country, encouraged
and helped in the observance of Washing
toms birthday in the public schools and
helped to instll the minds of the children
with the lessons of patriotic duty TO be
drawn therefrom, He was member OF
the Grand Army and the Loyal Legion,
and kept up all the associations with the
keenest interest. The Unitarian faith
was his by tradition, heritage and belief,
but not TO narrowness.
His late visit to Brattleboro was full
fillment of practically his last wish. The
village was very dear to him, and the
friends remaining there after all the years
always commanded his eager interest.
The Phoenix came to him and was read
with countless memories of old times and
boyhoods DAYS. The "Trout hole"
"Solomons Pool" the asylum Mead
ows," chesterfield Mountain, "-wo did
not call it Wantastiquet in the old days
and the many other places "turned away
but never lost in the halls of memory.
Each and every one were to him almost
alive with thoughts of old friends and
pleasures of boyhood. The old house
where he was born was a sacred place as it
stood land stands) under the great naples,
and "Up on the Hill," tour name for the
cemetery pronounced, or written, brought
to him thoughts of those lying there that
cannot be put down here.
So in his last week he came to Brattle-
boro tired and worn, and was fairly un
manned by the unvarying, almost insist
ent kindesses crowded upon him by friends
old and new. But once he had been &c
the graves of the loved ones and very
few other familiar spots he sighed for
home and YEARLY found his way there
only to find that it had been moved "just
little farther on"
His wife and children will after thi:
have an even more tender regard for the
old place and the kindly friends who live
there.
He leaves a wife, Elizabeth Rowley, two
sons, S. Harrison and Robert G. Price
and one brother, Frank, living in Chicago