Price, George B.

Born: 1812-XX-XX North Carolina

Died: 1895-02-03 Carrollton, Illinois

Flourished: 1847 to 1895 Carrollton, Illinois

George B. Price, newspaper editor, was sent to relatives in Massachusetts as a child following the death of his father. He attended school in Boston and Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, before returning to his native North Carolina. Price learned the printing trade in New York and went into business there in 1835. When his business failed three years later he moved west, working first at the St. Louis Bulletin, then establishing the Olive Branch in Bowling Green, Missouri, in 1841. In 1843 he started a Whig newspaper called The Beacon in Carlyle, Illinois, which after a suspension restarted the following year as another Whig paper, The Truth Teller, under the editorship of Price and Benjamin Bond. After three years, Price relocated to Carrollton where he established The Gazette, of which he was editor until 1860. Price published The Gazette as a Whig newspaper until the election of 1856 when he supported Republican presidential candidate John C. Fremont in its pages. In 1859, Price served as a trustee of the town of Carrollton. By 1860 he owned real estate valued at $3,500 and $1,200 in personal property. Price married three times and each marriage produced children.

“Price-Nairn-DeMill Families,” North Carolina Genealogy 21 (Fall and Winter 1975), 3130-31; The History of Pike County, Missouri (Des Moines, IA: Mills, 1883), 482-83; Franklin William Scott, Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, 1814-1879, vol. 6 of Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1910), 42, 44-45; Ed. Miner, Past and Present of Greene County Illinois (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1905), 108, 137-38; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Carrollton, Greene County, IL, 90; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Carrollton, Greene County, IL, 804-805; The St. Louis Republic (MO), 4 February 1895, 2:3.