History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . tatus as the largest individual realty owner in Garden Grove, J. D. Price,the well-known pioneer, has been able to contribute much toward the rapid and suredevelopment of Orange County interests, and has thus been privileged, while makingprogress for himself, to give his neighbors and fellow-citizens, his friends and his com-petitors, a helpful lift along the way. He was born in the pa
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . tatus as the largest individual realty owner in Garden Grove, J. D. Price,the well-known pioneer, has been able to contribute much toward the rapid and suredevelopment of Orange County interests, and has thus been privileged, while makingprogress for himself, to give his neighbors and fellow-citizens, his friends and his com-petitors, a helpful lift along the way. He was born in the parish of Jefferson, adjoiningthat of New Orleans, on March 1, 1845, the son of David Price, a machinist who camefrom England, settled in Missouri, and there married Miss Eliza Williams, a native ofthat state. He made a specialty of installing sugar machinery, and equipped manyLouisiana sugar cane mills. When only thirty years of age he died in Louisiana, leav-ing three children, all boys; among whom our subject was the second in the order ofbirth, and is the only one now living. Three years later, the devoted widowed motheralso died, and so it came about that the lad was left an orphan at the age of HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 391 One of the sons was sent to relatives in Indiana, and two were taken by nearbykin in Louisiana; with the result that when the Civil War broke out, the latter enlistedfrom Louisiana as Confederate soldiers, while the former, the youngest of the trio,joined the Twenty-fifth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and fought as a Union soldier. J. D. Prices education was very limited, and he was obliged to abandon hisschool books after the age of fifteen. In 1862 he entered Company I of the EleventhLouisiana Infantry, and stayed in the service until the end of the war. He was inBraggs Army in Tennessee, and fought at Shiloh, Farmington and Perryville; andupon his being honorably discharged, he reenlisted as a member of Company A,Ogdens Battalion, Louisiana Cavalr
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