Rev. R. T. Price
Rev. R. T. Price was born on farm near New Hagerstown, Ohio, June 2, 1836. He remained with his father on the farm, spending the time partly in going to school, until he grew to young manhood. Having fitted himself in the New Hagerstown Academy for college, he entered, in the autumn of 1859, the junior class of Washington College, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in June 1861. He was run by his literary society for contest debater with the other society of the college, but was defeated by one vote. He was chosen as the orator of his society on another occasion, and was also one of twelve of his class appointed by the Faculty to speak on commencement day. He entered the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny City in the autumn of 1861, graduating in April, 1864, and in the same month was licensed to the gospel ministry in Steubenville, Ohio, by the presbytery of Steubenville.
On the 24th of May, 1864, he was married to Nannie Fulton, of Washington, Penn. He supplied for eighteen months the churches of Pulaski, Penn., and New Bedford, Ohio, when he was called to the pastorate of the First Church of Wellsburgh, W. Va. From this he was called to the pastorate of the Mount Prospect Church, Pennsylvania, where he remained four and a half years. From February, 1873, to December, 1875, he was pastor of the Bellevue Church, in the presbytery of Allegheny City. From 1875 to 1883 he was pastor of the church in Dunbar, Penn., and from 1883 to the present time has been pastor of the Hopewell Church, in the presbytery of Wooster, Ohio, associating with it, since 1887, the church of Nashville. Mr. Price's family consists of his wife, two sons and three daughters, the eldest of whom is Mrs. John Robison, of Crowley, La.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889