William Price (merchant), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Price (merchant), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Price (merchant)

Quebec lumber merchant and manufacturer

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1789

Place of Birth: Hornsey, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 14-Mar-1867

Profession: merchant, industrialist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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About William Price (merchant)

William Price (17 September 1789 – 14 March 1867) was a Quebec lumber merchant and manufacturer.Price was born at Hornsey, in the London Borough of Haringey, England, to Richard Price and Mary Evans, a family originally from Wales in 1789.
He studied law at the Inner Temple, but found his way to Quebec in 1810 and served in the local militia during the War of 1812.
Price took over a food supplier in 1815 and by 1820 formed the William Price Company as a produce shipping company and later into timber.His wife Jane Stewart gave birth to sons William Evan Price, David Edward Price, and Evans John Price. Price founded a Quebec-based timber firm William Price Company, that later would become Price Brothers Limited. William Price died at his Wolfesfield (or Wolfe's Field) Estate, in Sillery, in 1867.

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