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Price Fearnaught Ellison Jr. was born on June 4th, 1895, the fifth child and first son of Price and Sophie Ellison. Price attended school in Vernon, followed by St. John's College in Montreal in 1908-09, and then Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario until the summer of 1913. He is believed to have then gone to the University of British Columbia until the outbreak of WWI in September of 1914. He enlisted on December 8th, 1914 in the B.C. Horse and saw considerable service in France, being wounded and suffering from trench fever before being discharged in 1919. In 1920, Price took out land with his brothers Albert and Vernon under the Soldier Settlement Board, to raise cattle. This venture fell through when the price of beef per pound dropped substantially and the brothers lost money. From 1920 to 1927 Price Jr's occupation was listed as farming in the British Columbia Directories.
Price married Mary Ann (Mame) Coughlan of Vernon in 1928, and they made their home in the United States, where Price reportedly sold and serviced Singer Sewing Machines. A daughter was born in 1937. Price passed away at Shaughnessy Veterans Hospital in Vancouver on September 9th, 1955 and was buried in the family plot in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery.