Women of Strafford County
From the book "New Hampshire Women" A collection of portraits and biographical sketches of daughters and residents of the granite state, who are worthy representatives of their sex in the various walks and conditions of life. Published by The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, J.G. Patterson, Jr. President, ©1895
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Mrs. Evannah S. Price |
The youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stiles was born in
Strafford Centre, November 25, 1862, and inherits from both parents the
sterling qualities of the pioneers of New England. After attending the
district school and Austin academy she studied through the course of four
years at the Putnam high school in Newburyport, Mass., where she was
graduated in 1881. The two years succeeding were spent in Farmington
teaching, whence Miss Stiles went to the schools of Merrimac, Mass.,
remaining until 1888, when on Christmas day she was married to Mr. Osborne W.
Price, formerly of Gilmanton but then of Farmington, where the home of the
happy couple was made until a short time ago. Their residence is now in
Manchester, where Mr. Price is in business. While a student in school, and
when occupied in teaching, Mrs. Price studied and taught drawing and
painting, and after her marriage she found opportunity for farther
development of her talent in these pursuits, giving strict attention to the
instruction of excellent masters, and adding to previous accomplishments
those of painting on china, with her own firing, and of practical designing,
in advanced study of which she spent several months in New York before her
removal to Manchester. All her work is characterized by a distinct
originality, and a delicate yet spirited conception and execution in both
outline and color, and her charming sketches and exquisite china have found
a ready market, while manufacturers of silk and other fabrics have seized at
once upon her graceful designs. Many favorite patterns in silkoline, and
similar goods all over the country, are of Mrs. Price's designing, one
especially adapted to decorative purposes being the thistle pattern, and
should her health permit of close devotion to the work which is her true
vocation, laurels will be added with every year to those already
acknowledged as hers by the unquestioned authority in art, in recognition of
her genius and the patient diligence. Which alone gives to natural gifts a
sphere of usefulness.
This wonderful file, a rare find, was submitted by Michelle McKenzie who at some personal cost donates them to share with you. Pictures scanned by Michelle McKenzie;
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