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THOMAS B. PRICE, farmer; P. O. Urbana. Among the leading farmers of Urbana Township we mention the name of Thomas B. Price, who is a son of Joel and Elizabeth ( Brown) Price, both born in Pennsylvania, he in 1791, and she one year previous. They married in their native State, where they lived their entire life. He died in 1864, and she in 1876. Joel was a prominent farmer, and the father of eight children, of whom six are now living. our sl]bject being the fourth, and was born in Fayette Co., Penn., in 1824. There he grew to manhood on the farm, assisting his father, received his education, and, in the year 1850, married Margaret A. Craft. The same year, he moved to Ohio, locating on the farm he now owns in U rbana Township, Champaign Co. At that time it belonged to his father. Of this farm it can be truly said it is a good location, fine land, well improved and conducted by an enterprising farmer, who is a genial and Christian father. His wife died in the spring of 1854, leaving two children-Maryand George-the latter now deceased. Mr. Price married for his second wife, in 1856, Amanda E. Talbot; the issue of this union is four children-Charles, Jennie, S. Ella and John T., the eldest now deceased. The parents of his first wife were George and Eliza (Workman ) Craft, both natives of Pennsylvania, where they remained until quite old; then located in Knox Co., Ohio, where they both died, he having been a patriot in the war of 1812, and had been prominently identified in all the public interests of his native county in Pennsylvania. The parents of the second wife were John and Lucy (Bowen) Talbot, both natives of Virginia, but came to Greene Co., Ohio. about 1840, where they both died at an advanced age. Thomas B. and family have for many years been consistent members of the First M. E. Church of Urbana.