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About Walter Scott Price
Walter Scott Price was a United States Army engineer who was assigned in the Philippines for the Spanish–American War. He married Cavite native Simeona Custodio Kalingag, and after the war they migrated to Leyte. Price established several businesses in Tacloban, providing jobs to its residents and was fondly remembered as the "King of Tacloban". During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines of World War II, Price was interned at the UST camp in Manila. He was freed by General Douglas MacArthur's forces but died in 1945 shortly after his release.
He was one of the 12 US Army engineers who were sent to the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. After he was honourably discharged from the US Army, he married Simeona, moved to Tacloban, and founded the Leyte Transportation Company Ltd (Letranco) .He became a WW2 prisoner of war, interred at the Los Banos Internment Camp in Laguna.
Walter Scott Price's Timeline
1876 |
September 26, 1876
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
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1914 |
September 25, 1914
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Leyte, Eastern Visayas, Philippines
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1919 |
February 9, 1919
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Tacloban City, Leyte, Eastern Visayas, Philippines
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1945 |
March 18, 1945
Age 68
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University of Santo Tomas, Sampaloc, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
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