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Frederick
Orin Price, D.D.S. Mr.
Frederick Orin Price was born in State Center Township, Marshall County, Iowa,
June 3, 1872. He is the son of William Owens Price and Martha (Tramel)
Price, the father born in Pennsylvania, August 15, 1832, and he died in Jasper
County, Iowa, July 7, 1890; the mother was born in St. Joseph County, Indiana,
January 28, 1833, and is living in Ira, this County.
Her father, W. A. B. Tramel, was one of the earliest settlers in this
County. A history of the Tramel
family will be found in the sketch of William Alexander Tramel in this work.
There were five children in the Price family, named as follows: Walter,
born July 19, 1860, is residing near Sunnyside, Washington; Mrs. Caroline D.
Jackson, born October 2, 1862, is living in Ware County, Georgia; William, born
November 9, 1866, is cashier of the Farmers Savings Bank at Ira, Iowa; Herman
K., born March 25, 1869, is living near Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; Frederick Orion,
of this sketch. All these children
were born in Marshall County with the exception of Caroline, whose birth
occurred in Jasper County. William Owens Price, father of the subject, was a
soldier in the Union Army, having enlisted for service in August 1862, from
Marshalltown, in Company K, Twenty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in which he
served until near the close of the war,
when he was honorably discharged on account of physical disability. In
1875 the Price family moved to Riverside, California, and remained there until
the spring of 1880 when they returned to the central part of Iowa, locating on a
farm near Ira, where most of the early life of Dr. Frederick 0. was spent.
He attended the country schools, later taking a commercial course in
Highland Park College, at Des Moines. He
then entered Northwestern University at Chicago, completing the course in the
dental department, graduating with the class of 1902, having made an excellent
record. Thus well equipped for his life work, he located at Storm Lake, Iowa,
where he remained until the fall of 1906, enjoying an excellent practice, then
he moved to Colo, Iowa, where he remained until the spring of 1909.
Leaving this place, he traveled in the West, but finding no place so
attractive as central Iowa he returned to Jasper County, locating at Baxter,
where he has built up a large and lucrative practice, which is constantly
growing. He has a neat office,
equipped with every modern appliance to insure rapid and modern work. Doctor
Price was married on February 11, 1903, to Margaret Buck, who was born in State
Center Township, Marshall County, Iowa, April 22, 1876. She was a graduate of
the State Center high school and she studied music at Grinnell College and at
Lincoln, Nebraska. For many years
she was one of the most successful music teachers in this part of the state,
having large classes at State Center, Colo, Rhodes, Melbourne and Collins.
She was talented in this direction and was very popular with her pupils
and a wide circle of friends. She
was the daughter of Marcus Aurelius and Lucia (Wilkins) Buck, the father born in
Vermont, as was also the mother. Mr.
Buck and his family came to State Center, Iowa, in an early day and there he
died and there Mr. Buck still resides. They
were the parents of the following children: Carroll lives at Iowa Falls; George
is deceased; Everett lives in Washington Township, Marshall County; Mrs. Mary
Wensel, of State Center; Ralph A., also of State Center; Mrs. Myra Havenhill, of
Lawrence, Kansas; Margaret, who married Doctor Price, of this sketch: Harry, of
St. Anthony, Iowa; Nellie lives with her mother in State Center. To
Doctor Price and wife, one daughter, Nellie Maurine, was born, her birth
occurring at Storm Lake, Iowa, December 21, 1903.
She lives with her aunt and grandmother at State Center. Mrs.
Dr. Price was called to her rest on September 10, 1906.
She was a member of the Presbyterian Church at State Center, Iowa. Politically, the
Doctor is a Republican, and he belongs to Columbia Lodge No. 298, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, of Colo, Iowa. Personally,
he is a genial and companionable gentleman. Past
and Present of Jasper County Iowa, Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, B.F.
Bowden & Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1912, p. 1158. |
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