Arkansas County, Arkansas - N. B. Price - Bio

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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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N. B. Price runs a general supply store at Mount Adams, and has a trade amounting to from
$30,000 to $40,000 per year, carrying a stock that would invoice $8,000. He began life for
himself at the age of seventeen as a clerk, continuing to be thus employed for some time,
when he went into business for himself in Hardeman County, Tenn., and later in Memphis.
After remaining in the latter city until 1865, he came to Mount Adams, and has since been
in business at this point, attaining to a well-deserved reputation. 

Mr. Price was born in McNairy County, Tenn, in 1839, and was a son of Rev. William A. and
Sarah A. (Duke) Price. The father was a native of Louisa County, Va., and when a young man
moved to McNairy County, Tenn., where he married, and lived until coming to Arkansas in
1860. Settling near Mount Adams, he lived there until his death, which occurred in 1862,
at the age of forty-seven. His wife died in February, 1889, at the age of sixty-eight. Mr.
Price was a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a member of the A. F. &
A. M. 

N. B. Price was married in March, 1863, to Miss Emma Cooke, who died in 1865 or 1866,
leaving two daughters. He was married the second time about 1868 to Miss Mollie E.
Milligan, daughter of Rev. L. H. and Lovinia Milligan, and a native of Mississippi. Her
father was a Baptist minister, and died in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Price are the parents of
five children, two sons and three daughters. 

Mr. Price owns 13,000 acres of land, largely under cultivation, and including an extensive
stock ranch. He has acquired all his property by personal industry and business ability,
and deserves the success to which he has risen. 

He has two brothers living: William M. (one of the most extensive stock and real estate
men in Arkansas County) and Bryan (who is in the store with the principal of this sketch).

Mr. Price has been postmaster of Mount Adams [p.666] since his locating at this place. He
is a member of Euclid Lodge No. 130, A. F. & A. M., and of Reynolds Chapter No. 147. Mr.
Price is probably the oldest and most successful merchant in Arkansas County; he does a
large retail and wholesale business, and is conceded to be a representative business man
of the State. Mrs. Price is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but was formerly a
Baptist.