California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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ARTHUR T. PRICE. The name of Arthur T. Price is a familiar one at Somis and in Ventura County, 
and interest attaches to him not only because he is the son of Thomas W. Price, of whom 
extended mention is made elsewhere in this work, but because he is a comparatively young 
man of excellent character, giving promise of large future usefulness. In spite of 
discouragements and handicaps he has preserved, and is now successfully engaged in the 
cultivation of 150 acres of ranch land.
Mr. Price was born in Buckinghamshire, England, January 2, 1874, and is a son of Thomas W. 
and Susan (Price) Price. His father, who for many years carried on extensive operations in 
Ventura County, is now retired from active life and lives at Los Angeles. Arthur T. Price was 
educated in the public schools of England. When he was twelve years old he left school to go to 
work in dairies, and this employment he followed for nearly twenty years, being engaged in 
various establishments of his native country. Mr. Price was then the victim of a serious 
accident, which disabled him for six years, during which time he was unable to do any kind of 
work, but upon his recovery, in 1913, he came to Ventura County and rented 150 acres of land 
from his father, near Somis, on which he has since been engaged in raising beans. He is a 
careful and thorough ranchman and his efforts are being rewarded by success. Mr. Price 
belongs to the English branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 

Mr. Price was married in Buckinghamshire, England, in September. 1901, to Miss Minnie 
Victoria Henley, a native of that country, and they have one daughter, Dorothy, fourteen years 
of age, who is attending the Somis public school.