I. N. PRICE, of the I. N. Price Company, one of the leading commission houses in Cincinnati, has attained to eminent success as an importer and exporter of fruits and vegetables.  Mr. Price is a native of the Keystone state, having been born on a farm near Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, his paternal grandparents having moved there from Virginia, in 1800, and in this county, also were the parents of Mr. Price born.  When he was seven years of age, in 1860, he came with his parents to Highland county, Ohio, and here he received a common school education.  His first venture in the business world was as an employee of a produce house, and here he learnd so well that in 1880 he was able to lay successfully, the foundation of his present large interests.  In that year, he formed the I. N. Price Company to do an importing and exporting business in fruits and vegetables.  So astutely has he managed the affairs of the company that in the past forty years the volume of business has increased from $20,000 to $700,000 annually.  Mr. Price was united in marriage to Rose Ruvers, of Cincinnati, a daughter of John Ruvers, at one time a steamboat captain from Memphis, Tenn., and to this union were born two children, Harry J. and Adelaide W., now deceased.  Harry J. Price was born in Cincinnati, Jan. 3, 1879, and after completing the course of study in the public schools, matriculated at Cincinnati University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science.  Upon leaving college, he became associated with his father in the commission business, and since that time has given his attention to it it an executive capacity.  He married Wilhelmina Schurmeier, a daughter of Captain H. S. Hurter, of Washington, D. c., and they are the parents of one son, Harold Robert.
Source:  Memoirs of the Miami Valley - Publ. Chicago: R. O. Law Co. - 1920 - Page 533