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ADDISON A. and WILSON A. PRICE are sons of Charles and Mary (Neff) Price, the former born June 26, 1814, and the latter September 24, 1816, in the town of Homer, Cortland county, New York. Their grandfather was Stephen Price, a native of New Jersey, where he was born December 28, 1758. His occupation was school teaching, and in that capacity he went to the town of Homer where he died June 1, 1831. He bought a farm at that place which remained in the family for many years. Mr. Price gave seven years of service during the Revolutionary war. He married Elizabeth Hall and had eight sons and five daughters. Several of the former were engaged during the war of 1812. The maternal grandfather, Abram Neff, was born in Holland, October 18, 1772. Emigrating to America he settled in Cortland county, this State and married Eunice Beckwith, who bore him five sons and the same number of daughters. Charles Price (father) was born April 20, 1786, in the town of Clarendon, Morris county, N. J., and came to Cortland county, this State, in 1808. In 1826 he removed to Chautauqua county and settled in Portland town. Two years later he went to Chautauqua town and in 1851 he moved into the city of Jamestown where he resided until his death, November 20, 1868. His early years were spent farming but later he began to do carpenter work, a trade he had mastered years before. When a young man Mr. Price was a Jacksonian democrat but afterwards turned whig and then republican. For twenty years he was a member of the Baptist church. Mary Neff was born October 18, 1792, and lived to be over ninety-one years of age. The date of her death was November 4, 1883. She married Charles Price in 1809, and became the mother of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters: Two died in infancy; Eunice married Abel Kimberly, who lives on Lake View avenue, and is a carpenter and joiner; Addison A., Wilson A., Anna M., married Reuben S. Green (deceased); Charles H., lives in Stockton town, this county; Clarissa B., wife of Jonathan Pennock, a prominent Jamestown groceryman; Caroline and Eveline were twins, the former married Phineas Crossman, who is a real estate man of Jamestown; the latter married Charles H. Lewis, who is a tailor in Philadelphia; Orlando L. died when fourteen years old; Silas C., married first time to Charlotte Evans and then to Sarah Sampson, and he now lives on Lincoln street, Jamestown; Cheston B., is dead; he married Mrs. Catherine Gaggin; and Adam N. (dead), was twice married, first to Helen Lowe and then to Harriet Wright.

Addison A. Price received a good education at the common schools and learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner. He is a republican and has filled various city offices. He came to Jamestown in 1839, and has been actively employed there ever since. In 1866 he built the residence where he now resides. He has been twice married. His first wife was Charlotte D. Green, a daughter of David Green, who lived near Mayville. They had six children: Oscar F., at present mayor of Jamestown; Caroline A., married Van Buren Weeks, a son of Liscom Weeks, of Ellery town; Henry C., married Florence Cook, a daughter of Judge Cook, of Jamestown; Henry C., is a carpenter and lives in New York city; Cora is the wife of Walter J. Wayt, and lives in Vancouver, B. C, where her husband is employed as a draughtsman; Fred A., is a joiner and lives with his father; and Clayton E., is a merchant on Main street, Jamestown, and is married to Mary Rush. Addison A. Price married the second time to Cynthia A. Hiller, who is still living.

Wilson A. Price came to Jamestown with his brother in 1839, and has been employed with him at the same trade, carpentering. In 1865 he erected the home where he now lives. Politically a republican; he married Amy E. Butler, a daughter of Caleb Butler, in 1840, and they have one child: Charles H., who married Mary B. Kimberly. He lives at home with his father and follows the trade of a printer.

Addison A. and Wilson A. Price, are honorable and respectable gentlemen whose labor and minds have gone far toward developing the city of Jamestown.