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Drew Parker Price, an attorney of Portland, is numbered among those men whose Patriotism measured up to the
one hundred per cent American standard. Mr. Price was born at Edgar Station, Edgar county, Illinois, September
14, 1874. His father, James Parker Price, was a native of Ohio, born February 14, 1843. At the age of nineteen
years he joined Company D of the Seventy ninth Regiment of Illinois Volunteers at Mattoon, Illinois, for service
in the Civil war. In September, 1862, he was assigned to duty with the army of the Cumberland and participated
in the attack of Bragg's Regiment, taking part in the first battle at Perryville. He participated in several engagements
and on the 31st of December, 1862, was captured in connection with twenty six hundred comrades at Murfreesboro
or Stone River and taken to Libby prison. There be was held for several months and was one of the last six prisoners
to leave that place of military confinement. He was discharged from active service in September, 1863. He wedded
Mary C. Long and for many years devoted his life to the work of the ministry, as a representative of the Society
of Friends, taking up active duty in the church in 1882. Through the intervening period to the time of his death
he had charges in various parts of the country. In 1892 he came with his wife to Oregon, settling in Newberg, where
Mrs. Price departed this life in 1895. Mr. Price survived for a number of years but was called to his final rest
at Newberg, October 14, 1911. In their family were six children, five of whom survive: Mrs. F. A. Elliott, the
wife of State Forester Elliott of Salem; Mrs. A. T. Hill of La Grande; Drew Parker of this review; O. L., an attorney
and confidential secretary to H. L. Pittock and F. W. Leadbetter of Portland; and Dr. J. C. Price, a dentist of
Reedsport, Oregon.
Drew Parker Price obtained his preliminary education in Champaign county, Illinois, and following the removal of
the family to Oregon, when he was about eighteen years of age, he entered the Pacific College at Newberg, a Quaker
institution, and was there graduated in 1897, receiving the Bachelor of Science degree. He determined upon the
practice of law as a life work and completed his preparation for the bar as a law student in the Oregon University,
receiving the LL. B. degree upon graduation with the class of 1900. In the same year he was admitted to the bar
and for a year practiced in Newberg, after which he removed to Portland and entered the employ of the Title Guarantee
Trust Company, with which he remained for about four years, or until 1906. He then entered the law office of Cake
& Cake and continued with them for two years. On the 1st of January, 1909, however, he opened a law office
independently in Portland, where he has since practiced. His ability has been demonstrated in the many favorable
verdicts which he has won for his clients and by his connection with much important litigation heard in the courts
of the district.
On the 11th of November, 1903, in Portland, Mr. Price was married to Miss Flora M. Bailey, a daughter of Joseph
W. Bailey, a native of Maine. Their children are Joe Parker, who was born August 26, 1905; Margaret Frances, born
in 1909; and Elliott Andrew, born September 13, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Price have an extensive circle of warm friends.
In politics he is a republican and he served during the World war on the legal advisory board and took active part
in promoting the bond drives and the Red Cross drives. Mr. Price has membership with the Masons, Odd Fellows and
the Woodmen of the World. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian denomination and he is an elder in the
Westminster church. His aid and influence are always given on the side of progress and advancement and he has done
much to uphold the legal and moral standards of the community.
From:
History of Oregon Illistrated
Vol. 3
BY: Charles H. Carney
The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company
Chicago - Portland 1922
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