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118 cavalry. With Ezekiel Clark he advanced about j $25,000 to pay to the 1st, 2d, and 3d Iowa regi- ments their " state pay." ' ! and carried the same to them, at much personal risk from the " bush- whackers " in northern Missouri. Mr. Price was elected to congress as a Republican, serving in 1863-'9. He declined to be a candidate again, and spent some time abroad. He was again elected in 1876 and 1878. and then again declined re-election. He was appointed commissioner of Indian affairs in 1881, and served in that office until shortly after the inauguration of President Cleveland.

PRICE, John, soldier, b. in England; d. in Maryland in 1661. He emigrated to Maryland, and represented St. Michael's hundred in the general assembly of 1639. He served with credit as a soldier, received the public thanks of Lord Baltimore, and was appointed muster-master- general in 1648. He was made a privy councillor the same year, and was an ardent supporter of the toleration act of 1649. He took an active part in the rebellions of 1645, and commanded St. Inigo's fort at a critical moment, and it was in a great measure owing to his exertions that Gov. Leonard Calvert recovered his authority.

PRICE, Richard, clergyman, b. in Tynton, Glamorganshire, Wales, 23 Feb., 1723 ; d. in Lon- don. Knghmd. Ill Maivh. 1791. He- was the son of a dissenting Calvinistic minister, was educated at a dissenting academy, and held several appointments HI :m.l ill t l.ou'do n. (.)f his Observations on Civil Liberty and the Justice and Policy of the War with America" (London and Boston, 1776) 60,000 copies were soon distributed. For this work he re- ceived the thanks of the corporation of "London and the freedom of the city, besides being invited, in 1778, by the congress of the United States, to become a citizen of this country. This request he declined. I nit referred to the infant republic as "the hope and the future refuge of mankind." His nil id- works refer to religion, ethics, politics, and finance. He received the degree of D. "D. from the Univer- sity of Aberdeen in 1769, and that of LL. D. from Yale in 1781. His biography was written by his nephew, William Morgan, D. D. (London, isl/i).

PRICE, Rodman McCamley, governor, b. in Sussex county, N. J.. 5 May, 1816; d. in Oakland, N. J., 7 June, 1894. He became a student at Prince- ton, but before completing the course was obliged to leave on account of his health. He afterward pur- sued for some time the study of the law, and finally, in 1840, was appointed purser in the U.S. navy. For ten years he, was connected with this branch of the service, and in 1848 he was made navy agent for the Pacific coast. When the American flag was raised in this re- gion, he was the first to exercise judi- cial functions under it as alcalde. On returning to his home in IfcW. he was elected a mem- ber of congress, ;niil served from 1851 tilll53. On 8 Nov. of the latter year he was fleeter! governor of New Jersey, which office he filled for three years. Through his instrumentality mainly the normal school "I" that state was established, and the militia system greatly improved. In 1861 he was a delegate to the Peace congress.

'''PRICE. Roarer''', clergyman, b. in England about 1696; d. in Leigh, Essex, 8 Dec., 1762. He was educated at Oxford, and admitted to orders in the Church of England in 1720. From 1725 onward he held several livings in England. On the death of the Rev. Samuel Myles, in 1728. Mr. Price was sent, the year following, by the bishop of London, to succeed Mr. Myles in the rector- ship of King's chapel, Boston, Mass. The next year he was appointed the bishop's commissary. In April, 1734, he laid the corner-stone of Trinity church, Boston, and in August. 1735, he delivered the first sermon in it. Although an able preiu her. he appears to have had various difficulties and dis- putes with his parishioners, and became quite dissatisfied with the state of affairs in general. About 1744 he purchased a tract of land in Hop- kinton, Mass.. did missionary duty for two or three years, built a church at his own expense, and devised it, with a glebe of 180 acres of land, to the Society for propagating the gospel, in trust for supporting a minister of the Church of Eng- land. In 1753 he went to England, where he spent the rest of his life as "incumbent of the parish of Leigh, in the deanery of Broughing, and archdea- conry of St. Albans." Mr. Price published two sermons, delivered on special occasions in Boston, one on the death of John Jekyll, Esq., collector of customs (1733). the other, on the death of the queen, wife of George II. (1738).

PRICE, Samuel, senator, b. in Fauquier county, Va., 18 Aug., 1805 ; d. in Leesburg, W. Va., 25 Feb., 1884. He removed to Preston county, Va. (now W, Va.),at twelve years of age, received a eommon- school education, and settled in the practice of law in Nicholas county. After serving two terms in the legislature he removed to Wheeling, and sub- sequently to Lewisburg, and represented Green- brier county for many years in the legislature. He was a leader in all schemes for internal improve- ment west of the Blue Ridge, and an originator of the proposition to establish a railroad from Tidewater, Va., to Ohio river. He was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1851, and of the Secession convention in 1861, and earnest- ly opposed disunion in the latter body, but, on the passage of the ordinance of secession, sup- ported the measures that followed. He was elected lieutenant -governor in 1863, and served as presi- dent of the state senate till the close of the war. He was appointed a circuit judge in 1865, but de- clined to take the test oath and did not serve, lie was an unsuccessful candidate for the U. S. senate in 1876, was president of the West Virginia constitution convention in 1872, and in 1S76 was appointed by the governor to fill out the un- expired term of Allen T. Caperton, deceased, in the U. S. senate, serving four monl hs.

PRICE, Sterling, soldier, b. in Prince Edward county, Va., 11 Sept., 1809; d. in St. Louis, Mo., 29 Sept.. 1S67. lie was a student at llainpden Sidney college, read law. moved to Chariton county, Mo., in 1831, and was speaker of the Missouri house of representatives in 1S40-M. lie was elected to congress in the latter year as a Democrat, but resigned in 1846. and rai-ed the 'Jd Missouri cavalry regiment for the Mexican war. becoming its colonel. He moved his regiment with that of Col. Doniphan. both under command of Gen. Stephen W. Kearny. from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe. more than l.OOO miles, the march occupying more than fifty davs. .-md the army subsisting mainly on the count ry. Col. Price,