Samuel Price was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, July 28, 1805, and died in Lewisburg February 25, 1884.  His father moved to what is now Preston County, West Virginia, in 1815.

 

In 1827 Mr. Price, after studying law in Kentucky, located in Nicholas County.  He was State’s Attorney for the County, and in 1831 he was elected a member of the Virginia Legislature, representing Nicholas and Fayette.  He located in Lewisburg in 1837 and married Jane Stuart, granddaughter of the distinguished Col. John Stuart, of pioneer days.

 

Samuel Price was again elected to the Legislature in 1848.  In 1850, he was chosen to represent his district in the Virginia Constitutional Convention.  He was a member of the famous Virginia Convention in 1861.

 

In 1863, he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia and as such presided over several sessions of the State Senate.  He presided as President of the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1871.  In 1877 Price was appointed to succeed United States Senator Allen T. Caperton.

 

( information from Historical Booklet, Greenbrier County, 1938 )