SAMUEL F. PRICE, M. D.

SAMUEL F. PRICE, M. D.
For twenty-one years Dr. Samuel F. Price has engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Saratoga and ranks with the leading physicians of his section of the state. He has also been active outside the strict pale of the profession and has done much to mold public thought and action along political lines. Twice he has been chosen to represent his district in the state senate and thus has through a period of eight years left the impress of his individuality upon the laws of the state. He was born in Benton county, Missouri, October 20, 1864, and is a son of Edward and Eliza (Jamison) Price, the former a native of eastern Tennessee, while the latter was born in Georgia. They were married in Tennessee and removing westward, settled in Benton county, Missouri, where they cast in their lot with the early residents of that section of the country. The father there took up the occupation of farming and at a subsequent period became a resident of Paola, Kansas, where his wife, who had been reared in Georgia but was married in eastern Tennessee, passed away in 1876, at the age of forty-two years. At a later period Mr. Price returned to Tennessee and died in his native state in 1909, at the advanced age of eighty-five years. He was a Civil war veteran, having served as a private with a Missouri regiment. He came of a family noted for longevity, his father having reached the notable old age of one hundred and eight years. In the family of Edward and Eliza Price were ten children. Dr. Price, who was the seventh in order of birth, attended public schools in Missouri to the age of ten years and later was a pupil in the district schools and in the public schools of Paola, Kansas. He then took up the profession of teaching, which he followed in the district schools for two years, and later he began preparation for the medical profession as a student in the State University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated in 1891, winning the M. D. degree. He located for practice in Miami county, Kansas, where he remained for six years and in 1897 he arrived in Saratoga, Wyoming, where he has since remained, building up a large and lucrative practice in the intervening period, covering twenty-one years. He has made for himself a most creditable name and place by reason of his professional acquirements and his conscientious performance of all professional service. He is interested in all that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life and has been a constant student of the profession, broad reading keeping him thoroughly informed concerning the progress that is being made by the most eminent physicians and surgeons of the country. In May, 1893, Dr. Price was united in marriage to Miss Lydia Spaulding, the wedding being celebrated at Paola, Kansas. Mrs. Price was a daughter of Charles and Minerva Spaulding, of that place, the former still living at the age of eighty-five years, but the latter deceased. Mrs. Price passed away at Saratoga on the 15th of August, 1909, leaving two children. The elder, Charles Price, born in 1894 in Paola, Kansas, is a graduate of the high school of Saratoga and married Miss Katherine Campbell, by whom he has one child, Robert Price. Charles Price is now employed as bookkeeper in the State Bank of Saratoga. The younger son, Garrett Price¹, born November 21, 1896, in Paola, pursued a high school education and completed two years’ work in the University of Wyoming. He is a young man of extraordinary talent as a pen illustrator and cartoonist and his work on the Chicago Tribune has gained him wide fame and publicity. His cartoons and newspaper illustrations appearing in the Tribune, especially in the Sunday paper, have awakened wide comment and commendation throughout the country. He works under the direct supervision of McCutcheon,² who is perhaps the best known cartoonist of America. Garrett Price is a graduate of the Art Institute of the University of Wyoming and is in his present connection receiving the most thorough training, having already gained notable recognition as a cartoonist. Having lost his first wife. Dr. Price was again married in Saratoga, in July, 1910, his second union being with Miss Florence Purvis. They have two children: Carol, born in Saratoga in 1912; and Garvin, born in 1914. Dr. and Mrs. Price have a very wide and favorable acquaintance in Saratoga and their section of the state. He has not only gained professional prominence but is also recognized as one of the leading republicans of Wyoming and for two terms of four years each, beginning in 1904, he represented his district in the state senate and was connected with much important constructive legislation. He also served as coroner of Miami county, Kansas, in 1896 and for two terms he was mayor of Saratoga, Wyoming, giving to the city a businesslike and progressive administration. He has served on the city council and for six years was a member of the school board, during a part of which time he served as its chairman. He has done most effective work in office on behalf of public progress and improvement and over his public record there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. His high professional standing is widely recognized by his colleagues and contemporaries and he is a valued representative of the Wyoming State Medical Association.
Transcriber Note: 1. Headlines in the New York Times on April 10, 1979, read: Garrett Price, Artist 82, Dead; Did covers for the New Yorker. Mr. Price's cartoons and covers appeared in the New Yorker, Colliers, Saturday Evening Post and other publications during the last 50 years. Coward-McCann recently published his book entitled, "Drawing Room Only." Garrett Price attended the University of Wyoming and drew little sketches for the WYO, the Junior Annual, which I edited. As I remember him then, he was only a freshman, He was small and wore knee breeches. But we recognized his drawing talent and sought his help with the WYO. Later I saw Garrett when he was a doorkeeper of the Senate during the Wyoming legislature, when I was State Librarian. Garrett Price left Wyoming to attend the Art Institute in Chicago and from there became a reporter-cartoonist for the Kansas City Star. His strip in the Chicago Tribune was widely read. During his service in the Navy during World War I, Garrett did cartooning for Navy publications. Says the Times, "According to to a fellow artist, Mr. Price's work reflected a gentle humor expressed in a strong but sensitive line." In recent years, Garrett Price and I renewed our early Wyoming friendship through Christmas cards and letters in which he reminisced about his early life in Saratoga, Wyoming, where his father was a family physician. Garrett usually drew a sketch on his cards or letters. According to a near neighbor of his in Westport, Connecticut, Garrett was emotionally drained by the serious illness of his wife whom he attended personally during her terminal battle with cancer. Garrett Price deposited a fine collection of his art in the archives of the Western History and Research Center in the Coe Library at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. Near the Greats, By Agnes Wright Spring, Page 126 2. John Tinney McCutcheon (May 6, 1870 � June 10, 1949) was an American newspaper political cartoonist who was known as the "Dean of American Cartoonists". McCutcheon was born near South Raub, Tippecanoe County, Indiana to Captain John Barr McCutcheon and Clara Glick McCutcheon. He was the younger brother of novelist George Barr McCutcheon, writer of the Graustark books. His son, Shaw McCutcheon was an editorial cartoonist.

For twenty-one years Dr. Samuel F. Price has engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Saratoga and ranks with the leading physicians of his section of the state. He has also been active outside the strict pale of the profession and has done much to mold public thought and action along political lines. Twice he has been chosen to represent his district in the state senate and thus has through a period of eight years left the impress of his individuality upon the laws of the state.
He was born in Benton county, Missouri, October 20, 1864, and is a son of Edward and Eliza (Jamison) Price, the former a native of eastern Tennessee, while the latter was born in Georgia. They were married in Tennessee and removing westward, settled in Benton county, Missouri, where they cast in their lot with the early residents of that section of the country. The father there took up the occupation of farming and at a subsequent period became a resident of Paola, Kansas, where his wife, who had been reared in Georgia but was married in eastern Tennessee, passed away in 1876, at the age of forty-two years. At a later period Mr. Price returned to Tennessee and died in his native state in 1909, at the advanced age of eighty-five years. He was a Civil war veteran, having served as a private with a Missouri regiment. He came of a family noted for longevity, his father having reached the notable old age of one hundred and eight years. In the family of Edward and Eliza Price were ten children.
Dr. Price, who was the seventh in order of birth, attended public schools in Missouri to the age of ten years and later was a pupil in the district schools and in the public schools of Paola, Kansas. He then took up the profession of teaching, which he followed in the district schools for two years, and later he began preparation for the medical profession as a student in the State University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated in 1891, winning the M. D. degree. He located for practice in Miami county, Kansas, where he remained for six years and in 1897 he arrived in Saratoga, Wyoming, where he has since remained, building up a large and lucrative practice in the intervening period, covering twenty-one years. He has made for himself a most creditable name and place by reason of his professional acquirements and his conscientious performance of all professional service. He is interested in all that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life and has been a constant student of the profession, broad reading keeping him thoroughly informed concerning the progress that is being made by the most eminent physicians and surgeons of the country.
In May, 1893, Dr. Price was united in marriage to Miss Lydia Spaulding, the wedding being celebrated at Paola, Kansas. Mrs. Price was a daughter of Charles and Minerva Spaulding, of that place, the former still living at the age of eighty-five years, but the latter deceased. Mrs. Price passed away at Saratoga on the 15th of August, 1909, leaving two children. The elder, Charles Price, born in 1894 in Paola, Kansas, is a graduate of the high school of Saratoga and married Miss Katherine Campbell, by whom he has one child, Robert Price. Charles Price is now employed as bookkeeper in the State Bank of Saratoga. The younger son, Garrett Price¹, born November 21, 1896, in Paola, pursued a high school education and completed two years’ work in the University of Wyoming. He is a young man of extraordinary talent as a pen illustrator and cartoonist and his work on the Chicago Tribune has gained him wide fame and publicity. His cartoons and newspaper illustrations appearing in the Tribune, especially in the Sunday paper, have awakened wide comment and commendation throughout the country. He works under the direct supervision of McCutcheon,² who is perhaps the best known cartoonist of America. Garrett Price is a graduate of the Art Institute of the University of Wyoming and is in his present connection receiving the most thorough training, having already gained notable recognition as a cartoonist. Having lost his first wife. Dr. Price was again married in Saratoga, in July, 1910, his second union being with Miss Florence Purvis. They have two children: Carol, born in Saratoga in 1912; and Garvin, born in 1914.
Dr. and Mrs. Price have a very wide and favorable acquaintance in Saratoga and their section of the state. He has not only gained professional prominence but is also recognized as one of the leading republicans of Wyoming and for two terms of four years each, beginning in 1904, he represented his district in the state senate and was connected with much important constructive legislation. He also served as coroner of Miami county, Kansas, in 1896 and for two terms he was mayor of Saratoga, Wyoming, giving to the city a businesslike and progressive administration. He has served on the city council and for six years was a member of the school board, during a part of which time he served as its chairman. He has done most effective work in office on behalf of public progress and improvement and over his public record there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. His high professional standing is widely recognized by his colleagues and contemporaries and he is a valued representative of the Wyoming State Medical Association.

Transcriber Note:

1. Headlines in the New York Times on April 10, 1979, read:
Garrett Price, Artist 82, Dead; Did covers for the New Yorker. Mr. Price's cartoons and covers appeared in the New Yorker, Colliers, Saturday Evening Post and other publications during the last 50 years. Coward-McCann recently published his book entitled, "Drawing Room Only."
Garrett Price attended the University of Wyoming and drew little sketches for the WYO, the Junior Annual, which I edited.
As I remember him then, he was only a freshman, He was small and wore knee breeches. But we recognized his drawing talent and sought his help with the WYO.
Later I saw Garrett when he was a doorkeeper of the Senate during the Wyoming legislature, when I was State Librarian.
Garrett Price left Wyoming to attend the Art Institute in Chicago and from there became a reporter-cartoonist for the Kansas City Star. His strip in the Chicago Tribune was widely read.
During his service in the Navy during World War I, Garrett did cartooning for Navy publications.
Says the Times, "According to to a fellow artist, Mr. Price's work reflected a gentle humor expressed in a strong but sensitive line."
In recent years, Garrett Price and I renewed our early Wyoming friendship through Christmas cards and letters in which he reminisced about his early life in Saratoga, Wyoming, where his father was a family physician. Garrett usually drew a sketch on his cards or letters.
According to a near neighbor of his in Westport, Connecticut, Garrett was emotionally drained by the serious illness of his wife whom he attended personally during her terminal battle with cancer.
Garrett Price deposited a fine collection of his art in the archives of the Western History and Research Center in the Coe Library at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming.

Near the Greats, By Agnes Wright Spring, Page 126

2. John Tinney McCutcheon (May 6, 1870 � June 10, 1949) was an American newspaper political cartoonist who was known as the "Dean of American Cartoonists".
McCutcheon was born near South Raub, Tippecanoe County, Indiana to Captain John Barr McCutcheon and Clara Glick McCutcheon. He was the younger brother of novelist George Barr McCutcheon, writer of the Graustark books. His son, Shaw McCutcheon was an editorial cartoonist.