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VERNON D. PRICE was born in Cincinnati, June 9, 1848, and is a son of James P. and Frances (Dana) Price, of Richmond, Va., and Ohio. His father moved from Virginia to Cincinnati, where he was for a time a hardware merchant. In 1846 he raised a company in Kentucky for the Mexican war, and was major of the regiment at the close of hostilities. He died in 1884, at the age of eighty-one years. Subject is the only son, and was brought up in Washington County, Ohio, where his parents removed when he was a boy. He was liberally educated, and graduated at Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Me. After leaving college he went to Europe, and upon his return, he, in 1871, started in his present business, the manufacture of cider and vinegar, in which he has been very successful, having at the present time fifteen men on the road. Mr. John W. Lucas was associated with him a few years after he began the business — the firm being Price & Lucas. In August, 1877, Mr. Price was married to Miss Mary Cramblitt, of Des Moines, Iowa. They have had four children, three of whom are living, viz.: Vernon D., Florence and Helen. Mr. Price is one of the young and energetic business men of Louisville. He is a stockholder and director in the Louisville Southern Railroad; is a director in the Louisville Banking Company; a director in the Commercial Club; director in the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky, and in the Kentucky and Indiana Stock Yards, and director in the Louisville & Madison Woolen Mills.