The funeral services of Richard Price, a pioneer, who died Tuesday
at his home, 318 East Thirty-ninth street, was held yesterday
from Holman's chapel, and the services were concluded at the Portland
Crematorium. He was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, December
24, 1835, and landed in New York July 7, 1856. When the war broke
out he enlisted in Company G, Thirty-Third Regiment Ohio
Volunteers, under Colonel O. T. Tanner, serving three months.
In 1863 he crossed the continent to Stockton, Cal., by way of
Nicaragua, where he engaged in mining. Moving to Oregon, he resided
in Oregon City and furnished rock for the foundation of the Oregon
City Woolen Mills. He returned to California, but after a short
stay there returned to Portland. He bought 45 acres on Hawthorne
avenue and East Thirty-ninth street, and the trail which he cut
to
his place became Hawthorne avenue.
He was married to Miss Eunice Jane Quimby, daughter of E. L.
Quimby, a pioneer of 1847.
The following children survive: Mary Price, Richard W. Price
and Margaret J. Bollam. He was a member of Orient Lodge, No. 17,
Oddfellows, and Sumner Post, No. 12, Grand Army of the Republic,
which assisted at the funeral.
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