Descendants of Joseph And Mary Dodge Campbell in America: in Which is ...
Descendants of Joseph And Mary Dodge Campbell in America: in Which is ...
Henry Graham Ashmead
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Price was educated at the public schools of Ches- ter and Philadelphia, and when merely a lad he entered a general store at Rockdale and later that of John G. Dyer, in Chester. In the winter of 1848, John Marshall discovered gold in California, and the news occasioned an exodus of younf? men to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Price, stirred by the stories of the hour, decided to tempt fortune in the new-foimd El- dorado. In April, 1849, he sailed from Philadelphia on the brig Meteor, Captain Henry Smith..., for San Francisco. On the outbound voyage, the vessel stopped at Rio de Jane- rio, Brazil, and there Mr. Price was a guest of the firm of Maxwell, Wright & Company, at that time the largest ex- porters of coffee in the world. Through that influence he was presented to the Emperor, Dom Pedro and the Em- (i) Biographical and Histoncal Cyclopedia of Delaware County, Pa. Pace 239. (2) Proceedings of the Delaware County Historical Sodety, vol. i, page 17; also, "Jacob Alridts and his nephew * Peter' Alricks" by Edward A.
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