Arkansas County, Arkansas - William K. Price  - Bio

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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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William M. Price has been a resident of Arkansas County, Ark, since 1860, having been born
in McNairy County, Tenn., in 1846, the second of four children born to William A. and
Sarah A. (Duke) Price, natives of Goochland County, Va., who moved to Tennessee in 1838,
and in 1869 to Arkansas County, Ark., settling on a farm on the White River bottoms. Here
his death occurred in 1864, his wife's death succeeding his in 1888. 

William M. Price was fourteen years of age when he came to Arkansas, and after assisting
his father on the home farm, he engaged in agricultural pursuits for himself, continuing
for two years, or until the opening of the war. In 1863 he enlisted at Monticello, Ark,
for the remainder of the war, and was assigned post duty with Col. Crockett, serving in
the capacity of acting-adjutant until the close of the war, when he was paroled at Little
Rock and returned home, and again resumed his farming duties, making a crop the same year.


In 1886 he engaged in the general mercantile business at Mount Adams, continuing with
success until 1885, controlling the largest trade of any general merchant in the county.
Since 1877 he has been engaged in the stock business, and not only raises stock, but buys
and ships also, and has, without doubt, the largest herds of any one man in the State. He
makes a specialty of raising blooded Hereford and Durham cattle, and also has a
magnificent horse, a blooded Clydesdale and Cleveland Bay. 

His stock farm is one of the finest on White River, and comprises about 7,000 acres of
land, about 300 acres of which are under cultivation, devoted to grain and cotton, the
latter averaging one bale to the acre. In addition to attending to his extensive farm,
much of his time is given to the real-estate business, which has proven very profitable,
and he has made some of the largest deals of any one man in the State, buying 12,000 acres
of land at one time. He owns 20,000 acres of land in Arkansas County, which is for sale. 

Socially, he is a member of Euclid Lodge No. 130, A. F. & A. M. He was married in this
county May 3, 1873, to Miss Sallie L. Crockett, a daughter of Col. R. H. Crockett, and by
her has the following family of children: Mabel (attending Galloway College),William Mack,
Cecil C., Herbert and Ernest (attending the Stuttgart Normal Institute). Mr. Price has
always been interested in the advancement of schools, and is giving his children the best
advantages to be had. He is president of the college board.