Sterling W. Price
This well-known merchant of Range Township, Madison County, is everywhere respected for his sterling worth and excellent business qualifications. His store is well stocked with a full line of general merchandise and attracts attention because of the nicety in which it is kept. Our subject was born in El Paso, Ill., June 14, 1862, and is a son of William and Hannah (Duff) Price.
The parents of our subject came to Range Township, Madison County, when Sterling W. was three years of age. The father, who is still living, is a retired farmer, and our subject was also reared to agricultural pursuits and received a good education in the common schools. He was an apt pupil, made the best of his opportunities, and when nineteen years of age was enabled to teach school, which occupation he followed for four years. During vacations he clerked for Hewitt Bros., at Sedalia, and March 1, 1887, opened up his present business, being enabled to put in only a small stock of goods. He is a man with a clear, sound judgment, and as the years passed by enlarged his store, until now he does a thriving and prosperous business.
Mr. Price has never married and is the fifth in a family of seven children born to his parents, all of whom are living. Politically, he is a Democrat, casting his first Presidential vote in 1884 for Cleveland. He joined the ranks of the Masons in 1891, and is classed among the public-spirited, progressive and enterprising citizens of Range Township, and enjoys to the fullest the confidence of the best in the community.
From PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF FAYETTE, PICKAWAY AND MADISON COUNTIES, OHIO - Chapman Bros. [Chicago, 1892]