Price, Elias Winans, 1829-1897.

Elias Winans Price (1829-1897) was the son of Jeremiah Price (1786-1861) and his second wife Maria Gibbs Price (1788-1838) of Elizabeth, Essex County, N.J. Among Elias Winans Price's siblings were Theodore (born 1819) and Henrietta McDowell Price (born 1826). Elias Winans Price married Phebe Shipman in 1852.

Elias Winans Price learned the bookbinders' trade in 1845, lived at Waterbury, Conn., in the 1850s, and owned a bookbindery in Brooklyn, N.Y., when he enlisted in the United States Army in August 1862. He served in Company A, 5th New York Volunteer Artillery, stationed at Fort Marshall, Baltimore, Md., near Harpers Ferry, W.Va., and in the Shenandoah Valley and Winchester, Va.

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