Thomas Price
Thomas Price, manager and secretary of the American China Company's plant at Toronto, O., president of the Means Engineering and Foundry Company at Steubenville and Toronto, president of the Toronto Realty Company, and a director, since its inception, of the First National Bank of Toronto, O., is a leader among the business men of Toronto and has taken an active part in its progress and development.
Thomas Price was born in the southern part of Wales, April 24, 1863, and is a son of William and Ann (Lewis) Price. At the age of six years he accompanied his parents when they emigrated to America and located at Irondale, Jefferson County, Ohio. An uncle, Samuel Lewis, was a prominent man at Irondale at that time, and it was on his advice the parents of the subject of this sketch came to this country. Thomas was a well grown boy when he began learning the trade of a potter, a trade which has been the means of his advancement from a poor boy to a position of affluence in the community in which he now resides. He started in a pottery at East Liverpool, O., where he continued until 1889 when he was made superintendent of the Chelsea China Company's plant in New Cumberland, W. Va. He continued at that point until 1897, when he removed to Toronto to accept the position of superintendent of the plant of the American China Company. He has been identified with the Means Foundry Company, which is now the Means Engineering and Foundry Company, since 1901, and has served as its president since 1905. It was largely through his efforts that Toronto became the home of this large concern, which now has under construction a large and modern plant.
Mr. Price was united in marriage with Miss Lillie Jennings and they have four children, namely: William, Grace, and Emmett and Elmer, twins. Fraternally, he is a 32nd degree Mason.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910