Rothrock.] &* "* INov. 10, 



Rachel, his mother, was a daughter of William Kirk, of East 

 Nantmeal, Chester county, the tenth child of Alphonsus Kirk, 

 who came from the north of Ireland, landed first at Jamestown, 

 Virginia, January 12th, 1689, and shortly after settled in Centre, 

 New Castle county, Delaware. 



William Kirk's second wife was Sibilla Davis (of Welsh de- 

 scent), the mother of Rachel, and hence Eli Kirk Price's grand- 

 mother. Philip and Rachel were married October 20th, 1184. 

 For generations Eli's ancestors had all been members of the re- 

 ligious society of Friends. 



Though to all "Friends" human strife is a matter of the ut- 

 most concern and sadness, one must not infer that they were 

 lacking in courage or in enterprise. On the contrary they have 

 been among the very best of pioneers ; often, indeed, the} r were 



the first, when principle or human life was at stake, to brave any 



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 danger, or to meet any hardship. Under a quiet exterior were 



often concealed memoiies of thrilling adventures with outward 



foes, as well as of desperate struggles with the powers of inborn 



sin tempting them away from the sober teachings of conscience 



and honest judgment. The life of no real Friend is uneventful. 



It may not strike the ear or eye of the world, but it is full of 



striving after perfect purity in thought, word and deed. It may 



lack the glamour of popular applause, but it is rich in the solid 



worth of conscious rectitude. 



From a long line of such ancestors came the subject of this 

 sketch. Integrity through all these generations had matured 

 into an instinct in him It might be said that he despised and 

 hated fraud simply because it was in him to do so, without con- 

 scious effort on his part. 



Philip Price was among the leading fanners of his day. It 

 was he who introduced the Washington Thorn into Chester 

 county, where for half a century it has been not only a useful 

 hedge, but one of the most characteristic features of the land- 

 scape. He was also among the earliest advocates of the use of 



