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Charlotte Silcott <I>Alder</I> Price

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Charlotte Silcott Alder Price

Birth
Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
Death
19 Feb 1909 (aged 84)
Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 0431, Lot 07
Memorial ID
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In 1849 Rev. Mr. Price married Charlotte Silcott Alder, who was born in Virginia in 1825 and died at Wellington in 1909. They had a family of ten children, eight of whom grew up to lead active lives. Alice, the oldest, is living at Iola, Kansas, widow of Dr. W. D. Chastain, who was a successful physician. Catherine is now living at Wellington, widow of J. J. Hoge, who died in that city in February, 1917. Viola, next in age to Catherine, is the wife of Prof. F. G. Franklin, professor of history in Albany College, Oregon, and herself a lecturer on literary subjects and librarian of the Carnegie Library of Albany. Charles W. Price, of New York City, has become eminent in the newspaper world. He was one of the founders of the Topeka Daily Capital in 1879. In 1885 he joined the staff of the Electrical Review at New York City, of which paper he is now proprietor and editor. For years he was secretary and treasurer of the International Press Club, and is at present-secretary of the Lotus Club of New York. He is a man of influence in the affairs of the great eastern metropolis. In his business he has offices both in New York City and Chicago. Bertha C. is performing the duties of theme reader in southwestern College. Cora, who died at Houston, Texas, in 1915, married D. C. Young, a printer, also deceased. Maude A. is head of the English Department of southwestern College at Winfield, and has been active in educational and religious work in Kansas and elsewhere for a number of years. Her home has been in Kansas the greater part of her life though she was born near Barnesville, Ohio. She attended public schools in Ohio, but her higher education was obtained during her study in the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, and in the universities of Kansas, Wisconsin and Chicago.

Miss Price has her home in Wellington, where she is a member of the Cary Circle. She is widely known for her efforts in missionary work. she is now missionary superintendent of the Kansas Sunday School Association, and for four years traveled exclusively in the interests of this organization, teaching in institutes and lecturing on phases of missionary education in several northern and southern states. She has been made a life member of the International Sunday School Association. In 1915 Miss Price accepted the position as head of the English Department of Southwestern College at Winfield, and, as a woman of culture herself and of broad contact with the life of the world, she has been able to stimulate and inspire young people before whom she comes as an instructor. Fletcher Price, a resident of Wellington, is traveling salesman for the Miller Fur Company of Detroit, Michigan.

A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, Volume 3
In 1849 Rev. Mr. Price married Charlotte Silcott Alder, who was born in Virginia in 1825 and died at Wellington in 1909. They had a family of ten children, eight of whom grew up to lead active lives. Alice, the oldest, is living at Iola, Kansas, widow of Dr. W. D. Chastain, who was a successful physician. Catherine is now living at Wellington, widow of J. J. Hoge, who died in that city in February, 1917. Viola, next in age to Catherine, is the wife of Prof. F. G. Franklin, professor of history in Albany College, Oregon, and herself a lecturer on literary subjects and librarian of the Carnegie Library of Albany. Charles W. Price, of New York City, has become eminent in the newspaper world. He was one of the founders of the Topeka Daily Capital in 1879. In 1885 he joined the staff of the Electrical Review at New York City, of which paper he is now proprietor and editor. For years he was secretary and treasurer of the International Press Club, and is at present-secretary of the Lotus Club of New York. He is a man of influence in the affairs of the great eastern metropolis. In his business he has offices both in New York City and Chicago. Bertha C. is performing the duties of theme reader in southwestern College. Cora, who died at Houston, Texas, in 1915, married D. C. Young, a printer, also deceased. Maude A. is head of the English Department of southwestern College at Winfield, and has been active in educational and religious work in Kansas and elsewhere for a number of years. Her home has been in Kansas the greater part of her life though she was born near Barnesville, Ohio. She attended public schools in Ohio, but her higher education was obtained during her study in the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, and in the universities of Kansas, Wisconsin and Chicago.

Miss Price has her home in Wellington, where she is a member of the Cary Circle. She is widely known for her efforts in missionary work. she is now missionary superintendent of the Kansas Sunday School Association, and for four years traveled exclusively in the interests of this organization, teaching in institutes and lecturing on phases of missionary education in several northern and southern states. She has been made a life member of the International Sunday School Association. In 1915 Miss Price accepted the position as head of the English Department of Southwestern College at Winfield, and, as a woman of culture herself and of broad contact with the life of the world, she has been able to stimulate and inspire young people before whom she comes as an instructor. Fletcher Price, a resident of Wellington, is traveling salesman for the Miller Fur Company of Detroit, Michigan.

A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, Volume 3


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