History
Dr. William Price, born in 1812 and died in 1865, began his medical practice here in 1835 and built this two-story federal style house about that time, with slave quarters and stables once standing to the rear. He married Mary Ellen Sappington, born in 1819 and died in 1904, daughter of Dr. John Sappington of quinine fame, and became a partner in the family's anti-fever pill business. Price served as secretary of the first town board elected in 1840, was a founding member of the Arrow Rock Masonic Lodge No. 55 in 1842, and was a trustee of the Arrow Rock Academy in 1844. From 1863 to 1865 he owned the pottery works at Morgan and 6th Streets. He and his wife are buried at Sappington Cemetery State Historic Site, 5 miles west of town.
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Arrow Rock, Missouri · United States