Dr. E. H. Price
Dr. E. H. Price, physician, of Chattanooga, and son of Joel and Edith
(Martin) Price, was born May 31, 1833, in Baltimore County, Md. He secured an
academic education and, after teaching a short time, began the study of
medicine, but was interrupted by the breaking out of the late war. Having moved
to Ohio, he helped raise Company C, Eleventh Ohio Infantry (United States Army),
and at first was first lieutenant, but in 1862 was promoted to the rank of
captain of the same company. The last year of his service he was brigade
inspector on the staff of Gen. John B. Turchon. After the war he took a course
of lectures at Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College, and in 1869 came to
Chattanooga and practiced until 1872. One year later he graduated at Pulte
Medical College at Cincinnati Ohio, and since then he has practiced at
Chattanooga. Previous to the war in 1856 he married Sarah C. McConnell, a native
of Maryland, who bore him two children-both daughters. The Doctor is a
successful physician, and is doing well in his profession. He was one of the
first police commissioners of Chattanooga, was a member of the first board of
health, was school commissioner of his ward several years, and is universally
respected. His parents were natives of Maryland and Pennsylvania respectively.
The father was a farmer, and died in Ohio while on a visit to that State. The
mother died a few years later. Three of the father's brothers were soldiers in
the war of 1812, but at that time he was too young to participate.
Goodspeed's
"History of East Tennessee" 1887