Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 23 October 2005

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HERSCHEL W. PRICE, carraige [sic] and wagonmaker and undertaker; P. O. Butlerville; a native of Hamilton Co., Ohio, and born Jan. 2, 1835. He received a common school education in the rural schools, peculiar to those days; he being of an industrious term of mind, he learned the carraige and wagonmaker trade. His ingenuity and close application to business soon made him a successful and a good mechanic. In July, 1858, Mr. Price was united in marriage to Elizabeth McMullen, born in this State Nov. 20, 1836; to this union three children were born, of which two are living—Frank H., born April 6, 1860, and Robert, Dec. 6, 1873. Mr. Price, being a War Democrat, aided the Union cause in various ways; he assisted the Governor in recruiting volunteers for the war, in which he was eminently successful, and was frequntly [sic] sent on secret missions after deserters and derelict army officials; in 1864 he was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 27th Regiment of United States Colored Troops, and followed the fortunes of the Army of the Potomac in its terrible ordeal of fire, sword and blood from North Anna to Petersburg, Spottsylvania, the Wilderness, Coal Harbor, Mine Run and Petersburg are familiar names to him, and the awful conflicts around and about Richmond are images that are ever impressed upon his mind. Some three years prior to the war, Mr. Price located at Butlerville, where he is now engaged in the carriage, wagon and undertaking business; he does a good business, and at this time is in the enjoyment of a good constitution and has lost none of his original industry; he is of German and Scotch descent, and to those nations he traces much of his generous and hospitable nature. His father was a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, born Jan. 19, 1808; his mother was also of Hamilton County and born Nov. 18, 1811; they settled in this county in 1870. The family are historic, settling at Fort Washington, now Cincinnati, in 1790; the grandfather of the subject of this sketch participated in the war of 1812, beginning with Hull's surrender and terminating some two years after. The family was originally from Virginia. Mr. Price is an ardent I. O. O. F., being a member of Pleasant Plain Lodge, No. 656.