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James C. Price was born November 15, 1835. At the age of eighteen he learned the trade of brick-laying, and followed the business of contracting of churches, schools and public buildings. In 1859, during the Pike's Peak gold excitement, he with three others from the vicinity of Leesville, thinking how nice it would be to dig the gold out of the hill in place of toiling for it here, after some one else bad done the digging, concluded to try their luck as gold hunters, and, collecting a few things together, they started by way of Steubenville, taking deck passage to St. Louis and Kansas City, where they bought an outfit for the trip, consisting of a wagon, two yoke of cattle and one year's provisions. Having arrangements all complete, they connected themselves, for safety, with a wagon train of fourteen teams and seventy men, with plenty to eat and drink on the long and tedious journey of seven weeks across the plains. They pulled in to what is now Denver City, then only a Government post-office. After resting themselves and teams for a few days, they pushed on to the gold fields, only to meet thousands disgusted with the prospect of finding gold, and devising all manner of means to make their way back to the States. So great was their disappointment that out of the seventy of the party only four remained, and they were soon separated. Mr. Price, with a young man from Vermont, opened up a claim in what was then called Russel's Gulch, where they worked five men at two dollars and fifty cents a day and board. One being enough to look after the working of the claim, Mr. Price spent his time prospecting between Mountain City and Pike's Peak, and to the head of the Arkansas River. In the fall they returned to the States for winter quarters, again returning to the mines as before. In 1861 Mr. Price returned to Ohio, and in 1862 enlisted in the Forty-third O.V.I. At the close of the war he did contract work in Cadiz, Uhrichsville and New Philadelphia. He married Miss Martha English, of Mastersville, and has since made his home at Leesville, where he is the proprietor of the Gaited States Hotel. Their children are Burdell, Neva, De Forret and Fay.

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