The subject of the present sketch, Captain William Price, is one of the prominent citizens of Avon township. He was a son of Philip and Ann Maria Price, of Frederick county, Maryland, where he was born March 17, 1801, and was a nephew of Hon. Peter Price, of Monroe county. New York. When he was a child, his parents emigrated from Maryland to the town of Rush, Monroe county, New York, where he resided until 1824, when he removed to Michigan, and located in the town of Washington, Macomb county, where he purchased of the government one hundred and sixty acres of wild land, and shortly afterwards his father came with his family and settled near him, and where they remained until his father's death. On the 6th of May, 1827, Captain Price was united in marriage to Miss Sally Axford, and in 1830 he traded his Macomb farm for the northwest quarter of section 12, township of Avon, and afterwards sold it and purchased the farm on which his widow now resides, and on which he resided until his death, which occurred December 17, 1851. Captain Price was a miller by trade, and ground the first superfine flour ever made in Oakland County, and acquired a thorough business training. In politics he was a Democrat, and was the third supervisor of the township of Oakland, when that municipality contained within its limits the present townships of Oakland, Avon, Addison, Orion, and Oxford, He served also as supervisor several terms. He was a captain of the Michigan militia, and received his commission from Governor Cass. Mrs. Price was the daughter of Hon. Samuel Axford, who was one of the early settlers of Michigan, settling in Oakland County in 1822. Mr. Axford was conspicuous in the early political history of the State, being a member of the legislature a number of terms, a member of the convention of 1836 at Ann Arbor to take action on the congressional terms of admission of the State into the Union, and also one of the associate justices of the circuit court. Mrs. Price was the oldest of thirteen children. There were five children who were the fruits of her marriage, four of whom are now living, viz., Maria Louisa, Rachel A., Oscar A., and Axford Nelson, all living near the old homestead, except Maria L., who resides in the town of Rush, Monroe county, New York. Mrs. Price is a lady of rare intelligence and kindly disposition, and is most highly esteemed by all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance.