A bit of Price trivia

This is the label of the  cough drop that James Lincoln Price made.  I had erroneously thought that these were sold to Smith Brothers in 1898 as that is what my mother said.  After doing a minimal amount of searching on the net it appears that the Smith Brothers got their recipe from someone in Poughkeepsie, NY.  Also, in 1902 there is a high school year book (http://books.google.com/books?id=YajOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT3&lpg=PT3&dq=The+JLP+Cough+Drop+Lansing,+Michigan&source=bl&ots=Rt7nrd_vqp&sig=sXNrqQM7Rig1oomzanVrYsqXc6I&hl=en&ei=BqmgTpG7H-iKiALxu8yHAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false)here is the link to that book:  in Lansing with an add for the JLP Cough Drop with the same picture of James Lincoln Price on it.  So, he didn't sell it before 1902 and he died in 1917.  So, my quest to see if the cough drop was sold before he died and to whom continues!  Nonetheless, he did have a Confectionery company and did sell cough drops that at least in our family are famous!  :)  Thanks, Rob for cleaning up that image!

Here is a picture of the Price home in Denver .  I am guessing that the picture on the easel is of William Price who was James Lincoln's father.  James Lincoln is father to my grandfather Donald Arthur Price.  William Price died in 1890 in Lansing, Michigan.  He was married to Minerva Hickman who moved out to Denver in 1892 with her daughter Catherine Elnora and her new husband Claud R. Miller.  James Lincoln also went there as he is found in the 1900 census and both Grandpa Donald and Aunt Isadora were born in Denver.  In 1909 Catherine Elnora and family (now had four daughters) moved to Portland, Oregon and Minerva moved with them.

With the above information the above picture of "the Price home before 1105 Alameda Ave, Denver" was either Minerva's in Denver or James Lincoln and Minnie Pearl Price's.  In any case it has piqued my curiosity to know why there would  be an easel in the corner with the picture unless it was the home of Minerva and it was her deceased husband's picture.  The picture does look something like James Lincoln, but I think maybe the face is a little longer than his.  Oh well, genealogy does seem to be a very real "who done it" mostly with no murders!

22 October 2011

Happy Birthday to my Mom!  Well, after a bit of study I have come to the conclusion that this picture was taken perhaps during a memorial service or wake for William Price in Lansing, Michigan.  The focus of the picture is the photo of William.  To the right of his picture is something rather odd.  It appears to me to maybe be a fish tackle box.  That would go with the picture of fish under the portrait.  There is a guitar not far from a piano.  On the floor to the right of the portrait are a couple of items of interest.  It appears that there is a paper on a smaller easel.  Can't figure except guess that perhaps it is a story of his life.  Leaning up against the supports to the small table is a photo album.  I have that very same album that Melody gave me some years ago.  The pictures have mostly been taken out of it and it may have been reused over the years, but it is definitely the same album.  So, since this photo portrays items that appear to be staged and prominently shows the picture I am guessing that this was for a memorial service or wake for William Price.  He was 55 when he died, so this is most likely a picture of him taken some time earlier than that.  It looks much like the picture of his son, James Lincoln Price shown on the cough drop label.  It would be fun to have a program that could magnify the items in this picture.  There are several pictures of people on the bookshelves to the left and the picture hanging from the wall to the right and above the portrait is hard to decipher.  Anyway, it wasn't long after William died that his daughter Catherine Elnora married (1 1/2 years later) and moved to Denver, Colorado.  Minerva also went to Denver as did James Lincoln and his wife.  James Lincoln came back to Michigan, Catherine and family along with Minerva moved to Portland, Oregon in 1909.  So....the sleuthing continues!