This is a transcription of the Evannah (Stiles) Price biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 141.
Evannah (Stiles) Price
The youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stiles was born in Strafford Centre, November 25, 1862, and inherits from both parents the sterling qualities of the pioneers of New England. After attending the district school and Austin academy she studied through the course of four years at the Putnam high school in Newburyport, Mass., where she was graduated in 1881. The two years succeeding were spent in Farmington teaching, whence Miss Stiles went to the schools of Merrimac, Mass., remaining until 1888, when on Christmas day she was married to Mr. Osborne W. Price, formerly of Gilmanton but then of Farmington, where the home of the happy couple was made until a short time ago. Their residence is now in Manchester, where Mr. Price is in business. While a student in school, and when occupied in teaching, Mrs. Price studied and taught drawing and painting, and after her marriage she found opportunity for farther development of her talent in these pursuits, giving strict attention to the instruction of excellent masters, and adding to previous accomplishments those of painting on china, with her own firing, and of practical designing, in advanced study of which she spent several months in New York before her removal to Manchester. All her work is characterized by a distinct originality, and a delicate yet spirited conception and execution in both outline and color, and her charming sketches and exquisite china have found a ready market, while manufacturers of silk and other fabrics have seized at once upon her graceful designs. Many favorite patterns in silkoline, and similar goods all over the country, are of Mrs. Price’s designing, one especially adapted to decorative purposes being the thistle pattern, and should her health permit of close devotion to the work which is her true vocation, laurels will be added with every year to those already acknowledged as hers by the unquestioned authority in art, in recognition of her genius and the patient diligence. Which alone gives to natural gifts a sphere of usefulness.