From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Pages 691 - 692
 
EDWIN GEORGE PRICE.  It is safe to say that Bloomfield township has no more 
painstaking tiller of the soil than Edwin George PRICE, a very credible 
representative of one of the old families of Walworth county, and a descendant 
of thrifty Germans, many of whose estimable qualities seem to have outcropped 
in him.
 
Mr. PRICE was born in this township October 20, 1859, and here he has been 
content to spend his life.  He is the son of Caspar and Christene (KESSLER) 
PRICE, both natives of Saxony, Germany, where they grew up and were married, 
making their home near Schmalkalten, Schpringstille, until 1852, and there two 
of their sons, twins, Godfrey and Ferdinand, were born.  In 1852 the family 
emigrated to New York, and spent one year in Pennsylvania, then came to 
Wisconsin and located in section 15, Bloomfield township, Walworth county.  
There were no railroads here at that time and even the wagon roads were few and 
poorly kept.  People traveled mostly on foot or horseback.  Here the parents of 
the subject spent the rest of their lives.  Godfrey PRICE married Julia CHAPIN, 
daughter of John CHAPIN, and he farmed in Bloomfield township most of his life, 
and his death occurred at Genoa Junction in the winter of 1902.  Ferdinand 
PRICE married Bertha STEFFEN, of Simache, Pommern, Germany, daughter of Fred 
and Wilhelmina STEFFEN; he is farming in the west part of Bloomfield township 
on his own farm, and he has a family; Caspar PRICE died October 6, 1883, in his 
seventieth year, and his wife Christene PRICE, died on May 3, 1893.
 
Edwin G. PRICE, of this sketch, grew to manhood on the home farm in Bloomfield 
township and lived there most of the time until his marriage, in 1883, to 
Wilhelmina KRAUSE, daughter of August and Gusta (TELL) KRAUSE, a sketch of whom 
appears elsewhere in this work.  Mrs. PRICE was born near Berlin, Germany. Her 
mother died in the old country, from the results of a conflagration in which 
their city, Deutsch Kronin, was nearly wiped out  The mother and her child, 
only three hours old when the fire started, were exposed to the cold, which was 
too severe for them to bear.  The father had already made preparations to come 
to America, and after the death of his first wife he married again and came on 
to the United States, bringing Wilhelmina and her brother, Julius Edward 
Krause, now of Lyons, this county.
 
Edwin G. PRICE bought the farm where he now lives at the time of his marriage, 
this place consisting of one hundred and six acres in sections 17 and 20, 
Bloomfield township.  The place was without improvements, not even a fence on 
it.  Mr. PRICE has, through years of close, persistent work, brought it up to a 
high standard of improvement and cultivation, and is successfully engaged in 
general farming and stock raising.
 
For nine years Mr. PRICE was treasurer of the school board, also served as 
clerk of the board for some time.  He has never been an office seeker or a 
politician, preferring to devote his attention to his farm and home.  He raises 
fine cattle, formerly keeping full blooded Holsteins, and he now raises 
registered Jerseys, his fine stock being greatly admired by all.
 
Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. PRICE, the oldest, Emma, dying when 
thirteen years old, on January 24, 1897; Carrie, who has remained single; 
Louis, who married Dagmar LANGKILDE, daughter of Carl and Rosa LANGKILDE, of 
Bloomfield Center; Louis lives at Genoa Junction, being employed in the Borden 
milk plant; Ethel, Chester and Edith PRICE, the younger children of the 
subject, live at home.  Mr. PRICE and family all belong to the Lutheran church 
at Lake Geneva.

Submitted By:  Carol
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