The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1901-08-15
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William Cecil Price, was born In
Russell county. Va, April !, 1916.
His parents were Of Welsh descent;
his father was q farmer, aud emil.
grated, with his family, to this state
in 1886 and located IN Greene county.
William, who had had the advant-
age ofa common English education
In his boyhood days now, at the age
Of twenty years, entered college at
Knoxville, Tennessee. After receiv-
ing his college education, he returned
to Greene county where no taught
school; he also clcrKed In . general
merchandise store, reading law In the
meantime whenever any spare mo-
men,s permitted; finally, In 1874 no
was admitted to the bar In Springfield.
Prior to this. In 1910, ho was sp-
pointed deputy sheriff Of Greene
county. In is4i he was appointed JUS
tice of the Greene county court, to I'LL
out the unexpired term Of Judge
Yancoy. Taney county was then in
cluded with the twenty counties
which that circuit embraced.
lie continued the practice Of law
until ls47, at which time lie was
elected probate Judge in which ca-
paci,y he served for two years.
In 1884 Judge Prlco was elected to
the State Senate; but resigned three
years later to accept M appointment
rendered him by Governor Polk, as
Judge of the Twcnty.sevcnth judicial
circuit. ln 1859 he was appointed by
Governor Stewart. to represent Mis-
souri, rs agent at the land Office at
Washington. During his term OF
office in this capacity he sAvcd thous-
ands Of acres Of land 20 tho statcs OF
Missouri, Illinois aud lows by defeat
ing, after fierce struggle, all previ-
Gus decisions of the Land Office,
thus making it an oaense Tor any one
to appropriate swamp, or over.howed
lands without compensating the state.
In 1860 he WAS appointed by presi-
dent Buchanan TO ill the unexpircd
term Of Judge Carey, ms United States
Treasurer, which position he held
until the beginning of tho Lincoln
administration.
When the civil war broke out
Judge Price entered McBride's brig
ade, Missouri Volunteers, under Gen
eral Price.
lie was captured by the fcderals al
Pea Ridge aud after eight month";
imprisonment at Alton, ILL.,, was ex
changed At Vicksburg. lie was thel
assigned, by President Davis, to tht
adjutant generals department, will
the rank of major; he did duty IS re
cruiting officer IN Missouri. In th'
spring of 1864 hc resigned aud com
mcnccd farming In Arkansas. wher,
he remained until 1867, when b,
went ~ ST. Louis and there praticct
law. In 1869 he located in Spring
field where, we believe, he rcrnainc,
until about 1896 when ho went TO Chi
cago, where he resided at the time u
his death, with his sop-in-lxw, w. W
New berry, NJ No. 6552 Washington
avenue; where, as was briefly sintc'
in our last issue, he expired on Aug
ust 6, at 7l5 A. NJ. aud was bmrie,
at Madison, Wis, August 9Th.
Judge Price stood high at tue bn
ia his day; was formerly al aciiv
worker in the n. 4. church, SOuti
or late years be had lived q retire,
life. lie was nh agreeable, brilliau
aud mighty esteemed citizcn--one q
the pioneers who did much for I'll
welfare and upbuildipg ot our In
periai State.
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