John Price

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John Price

PRICE’s Studio at Dover has a reputation for reliable and artistic photography second to none in Morris county. Mr. PRICE, the owner and proprietor, is a man who learned the business from the ground up, takes a great deal of enthusiasm in his work, and pursues it not only as a profitable vocation, but as the work for which he is best fitted and through which he can best serve society. Mr. PRICE has prospered in business and is the owner of considerable real estate property in Dover.

John PRICE was born in Paradise, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1865, son of Commodore and Amanda (KELLER) PRICE. Both were born in Pennsylvania, and the father now lives nears Wilkes Barre, while the mother is deceased. The father during his active career followed carpentering. The children in the family were:

Alice, wife of John WILLIAMS, but her first husband was Charles TRANSEN;
John,
Orvey;
Carrie, wife of Edwin ALEXANDRIA.

The early training of John PRICE was much abbreviated, owing to the fact that he attended only the common schools, and left his books and studies when twelve years of age. As a boy he then started out to earn his own way. For three or four years he was employed in a glass factory and then as clerk in a grocery store for six or seven years. In the meantime his attention had been attracted to photography, and after a thorough apprenticeship at his trade he started in business in Dover in 1892. His first location was in a little shop on East Blackwell street, later he moved to North Sussex street and then to South Sussex street, and finally bought the ground on which he built his present studio, at 25 East Blackwell street, modeled after lines that afford the best of facilities and the entire shop is equipped after the manner of the best metropolitan studios.

In October, 1889, Mr. PRICE married Ida POSTEN, a native of Pennsylvania, daughter of Jacob and Levina POSTEN. Her father was for many years a railroad man. Mrs. PRICE’s brothers and sisters were:

Lincoln;
Allie;
Stroud;
Ida;
Anna, wife of S. S. SMITH.

Mr. and Mrs. PRICE have one child, Ruth. In politics he is Republican, but exercises his own judgement in matters political. In fall of 1913, he was a candidate and nominated for board of chosen freeholders of Morris county. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order, has taken both the York and Scottish Rite up to and including the Shrine, member of Salaam Temple, Newark; Scottish Rite, Jersey City; Ode de St. Amand Commandery, Morristown, New Jersey; the I. O. O. F.; the R. A. The family attends the Presbyterian church. Mr. PRICE is self-made financially, beginning with almost no capital when he located in Dover – to-day he is the possessor of considerable real estate aside from the handsome block in which his studio is located.

This biography was transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003).