Philip Price

( 1823 – 1889 )

1st Partner of Levi Crowl

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Philip Price partnered with Levi Crowl to open a daguerreotype studio in West Chester in May of 1850. The partnership was dissolved by December that year. (see Levi Crowl biography) He left West Chester to join the gold rush in California and remained there from 1851 – 1859 engaged in mining.[1] Then he returned to settle down on a farm along the Brandywine.

Philip Price was the son of Benjamin (1793-1872) and Jane Paxson Price of East Bradford Township, Chester County, PA, born June 15, 1824. His father was a farmer and a teacher.[2]

Answering the first call for troops at the outbreak of the Civil War, Price enlisted on June 4, 1861 in Company C, First Pennsylvania Reserves, known as the Brandywine Guards. He advanced through the ranks to Second Lieutenant. He was wounded at Gettysburg but remained with the company and mustered out on June 13, 1864. He received the rank of brevetted Captain upon leaving the service.[3]

He married Ellen Satterthwaite in 1864 and the couple had three children, Phebe, Charles and Mary. The youngest daughter died at age 5 from childhood disease.

He was elected Treasurer for the County of Chester in 1870. According to the 1880 United States Census, Price worked as a clerk in the Chester County Recorder of Deeds office in West Chester.[4] He left West Chester for El Moro Colorado to work for the Colorado Coal and Iron Company. Later, he formed a real estate development company known as Price & Skyrock in Denver Colorado. Price died on September 7, 1889 after a long illness. He was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.[5]

© Pamela C. Powell, 2020.

  1. Daily Local News, (West Chester, PA), 9 September 1889. ↑

  2. Benjamin H. Shoemaker, The Genealogy of the Shoemaker Family of Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, 1903, p. 205. ↑

  3. A complete history of his Civil War service can be found in “A Small Company of Faithful Ones: The Brandywine Guards of Chester County, Company A First Reserves” by Kevin M. Brown and Amy L. King. ↑

  4. Year: 1880; Census Place: West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania; Roll 1113; Page 131B; Enumeration District:043. ↑

  5. Kevin M. Brown and Amy L. King, A Small Company of Faithful Ones: The Brandywine Guard of Chester County, Company A, 1st Pennsylvania Reserves. Create Space, 2011, p. 140-142. ↑

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