William Price, M.D.

Dr. Price was born Sept. 17, 1788, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1811, served as medical assistant in the Pennsylvania Hospital during 1811 and 1812. He spent some three years in Paris and London in attendance upon lectures and hospitals.

In 1821 he became a member of the medical staff of the Pennsylvania Hospital in the surgical department. He was a most cultured man, speaking French, Italian, Spanish and German, and was well read in Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

Dr. Price was unanimously chosen one of the City Fathers in Cincinnati, and in 1833 or 1834 was elected to a seat in the State Senate of Ohio. He was instrumental in the passage of many acts for the benefit of the public schools and other institutions of the city and State.

" He was most kind and social in his disposition, always gentle without affectation, and his manners were most polished and attractive."

Among his patients were General Andrew Jackson, who was taken ill in Cincinnati whilst en route to his home in 1835 ; also the families of General "Win. Henry Harrison and Rutherford B. Hayes.

" Let the truth and virtue of your lives sit as guardian spirits in our midst to call us to our unfulfilled tasks, and in the quickened kindliness of your hearts revisit and bless our hearthstones." — H. P. W.