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Walter Scott Price is known historically as the "King of Leyte". He built the Historical Price Mansion in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines that was used in 1944 as the official residence and headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur when he returned to Leyte to liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation. This site includes research, photos, and ancestral info on the Walter Scott Price Family History, focusing on the 1800s to 1900s. Contact: [email protected]
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Books with Walter Scott Price
-“Walter Scott Price, King of Leyte” by Father Raymond Quetchenbach, SVD, Leyte-Samar Studies 8, no. 1, 1974, 33-38
-The MacArthur Highway and Other Relics of American Empire in the Philippines by Joseph P. McCallus, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, Pg 53 “The King of Leyte and the Junkyard Oakie” (with a credit to Lia Scott Price, Walter's great-granddaughter.)
The book on amazon:
The MacArthur Highway and Other Relics of American Empire in the Philippines
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Walter Scott Price and the Masonic Lodge in Tacloban, Leyte
Photo of Bob Price, brother of Scotty Price, sons of Walter Scott Price. Bob was a freemason as was his brother Joe Price.
Photo and info from Bob Price, his grandson.
Freemasonry in the Philippines
Excerpt from https://grandlodge.ph/lodges/makabugwas
"Makabugwas Lodge No. 47 (U.S. Army and Navy Freemasons)
On May 31, 1919, Grand Master Milton E. Springer, assisted by Grand Secretary Newton C. Comfort, Fernando Salas, William A. Weidmann, Walter S. Price, Aurelio Diokno and otner brother masons, opened a Special Communication of the Grand Lodge in Tacloban, Leyte where they constituted the new lodge."
A Sample Masonic Lodge Newsletter
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Walter Scott Price 1800s Address
Walter Scott Price was the son if Marx Christian Price and their address in the 1800s was 2100 Diamond Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Contributed by Bob Price.
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Walter Scott Price in Military and Naval Population Census
Contributed by Bob Price, great-grandson of Walter Scott Price.
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Newspaper Clipping: "King of Leyte" Kin Here Await News of His Fate
Article contributed by Bob Price. Bob Price's grandfather is Bob Price, brother of Walter Scott Price Jr. "Scotty", and great-grandson of Walter Scott Price.
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Tuason Connection
The Tuasons were the only Chinese family in the Philippines granted with patents of nobility by a Spanish monarch.
Doña Teresa de la Paz de Legarda (born October 15, 1841 in Marikina, Manila, Philippines, died April 22, 1890 at 48 in Marikina, Manila, Philippines of Pneumonia) once owned the largest private hacienda in the Philippines in the 1800s and is the ancestor of the Tuason-Legarda-Prieto-Valdes Clan of Manila, Philippines. She was first married to Don Jose Severo Tuason, the son of Don Jose Maria Tuason and Doña Maria Jose Patiño y Tuason.
Doña Teresa’s second husband was Don Benito Legarda y Tuason, a third cousin of Don Jose Severo. The Tuasons descended from an 18th-century Chinese trader, Son Tua (later changed to Tuason). During the British occupation, Son Tua aided the Spaniards in fighting off the British and was awarded land and a noble title.
-The Last Hacendera: Doña Teresa de la Paz, 1841-1890 Luciano P. R. Santiago of Pila, Laguna
-Teresa de la Paz: Feminine Wiles and Family Trees, Filipino Geneology Project. Spanish-Filipino (Mestiza) Ancestry
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Legarda Lineage
Doña Clarita Tambunting Legarda’s father was Don Vicente Lucio Flores Legarda, born Dec. 13, 1873.
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Don Vicente was a naval architect, marine engineer, and teacher. He was a Glasgow, Scotland-educated architect who trained under Daniel Hudson Burnham who drew up the city planning maps for Manila and Baguio City, Philippines. In 1902, he taught in San Francisco, USA, and went home on Manila in 1909 to become one of Manila's prominent architects. He died Feb 24, 1956, in Manila, Philippines at age 82. He is buried in Manila, Philippines. His parents were Don Miguel Legarda and Doña Genoveva Flores-Legarda. Don Miguel Legarda was born July 2, 1852 in Binondo, Manila, Philippines.
Don Miguel is the son of Don Benito Pablo Legarda y Lerma and Doña Cirila Tuason de Legarda.
Don Miguel had a brother, Don Cosme Benito Legarda y Tuason, born September 26, 1853 in Binondo, Manila, (died August 15, 1915 at 61 years old in Évian-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, and buried in Manila, Philippines). Don Cosme Benito was married to Teresa de la Paz de Legarda. He earned a law degree from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, in 1874. He was a politician and lawyer and member of President Emilio Aguinaldo's cabinet at Malolos and vice president of the Filipino Congress 1896-1898. He was Resident Commissioner for the US Congress 1907 – 1913, representing State/Territory: Philippine Islands. (Legarda, Benito, 1853-1915, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress).
From wikipedia:
Benito Cosme Legarda y Tuason (September 27, 1853 – August 27, 1915) was a Filipino legislator who was a member of the Philippine Commission of the American colonial Insular Government, the government's legislature, and later a Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands to the United States Congress.
Benito Legarda died on August 27, 1915, in Evian-les-Bains, France. He is buried at the Manila North Cemetery.
The Legardas are considered one of Manila’s oldest families:
Manila’s Original 400 Old Family Names
Doña Teresa de la Paz de Legarda (born October 15, 1841 in Marikina, Manila, Philippines, died April 22, 1890 at 48 in Marikina, Manila, Philippines of Pneumonia) once owned the largest private hacienda in the Philippines in the 1800s and is the ancestor of the Tuason-Legarda-Prieto-Valdes Clan of Manila, Philippines. She was first married to Don Jose Severo Tuason, the son of Don Jose Maria Tuason and Doña Maria Jose Patiño y Tuason.
Don Benito Pablo was born on January 12, 1822 in Zubielqui, Navarra, Navarra, Spain, and died January 15, 1873 at age 51 in Binondo, Manila, Philippines.
Don Benito Pablo is the son of Don Juan Domingo Pablo Legarda Alcaine, born August 12, 1798, in Allín, Navarre, Spain, and Doña Juana Lerma.
Sources:
-The Last Hacendera: Doña Teresa de la Paz, 1841-1890 Luciano P. R. Santiago of Pila, Laguna
-Teresa de la Paz: Feminine Wiles and Family Trees, Filipino Geneology Project. Spanish-Filipino (Mestiza) Ancestry
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Tambunting (Fujian) Lineage
On January 1, 1942, Walter's son. Walter Scott Price Jr. “Scotty”, married Doña Clarita Tambunting Legarda (born May 6, 1920, who died Feb. 16, 1945 from shrapnel during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines WWII).
Doña Clarita's mother was Doña Clara Tambunting de Legarda (1881-1950), who was born in 1881 to Don Idelfonso Cosiam Tan Bunting (Tambunting). Doña Clara Tambunting Legarda died on April 2, 1950.
Don Ildefonso Tambunting (Tan Bunting) was the son of a Chinese immigrant from Fujian, China. Chinese Filipinos were descendants of immigrants from Fujian in China. Chinese immigrants were immigrating to Spanish Philippines during the Galleon Trade, and assimilated into Filipino society by intermarrying with native Filipinos and Spaniards.
Don Ildefonso was at first the owner of horse-drawn carriages which he used to collect garbage. The Manila city Government at the time paid him five centavos, and he used his earnings to eventually accumulate real estate in Manila.
Don Ildefonso married Doña Filomena Concepcion de Tan Bunting. In 1932, he changed the Tan Bunting name to Tambunting. Many Chinese immigrants at the time converted to Catholicism and adopted Hispanized names and customs.
In 1902, Doña Filomena Concepcion persuaded Don Ildefonso to start up a pawnshop in Sta, Cruz Manila, the Casa Agencia de Empeños de Ildefonso Tam Bunting. It became the largest pawn shop in the Philippines, and was later expanded throughout Manila by Don Antonio Tambunting in 1944, after WWII.
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Hispanization of Chinese Names
"The Spanish authorities differentiated the Chinese immigrants into two groups: Parían (unconverted) and Binondo (converted). Many immigrants converted to Catholicism.... intermarried with indigenous women and adopted Hispanized names and customs."
From wikipedia (Chinese Filipino)
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Simeona Kalingag Price
Walter Scott Price met and married Simeona Custodio Kalingag Price, born April 16 1873, died August 30, 1973, age 100. Simeona was from Cavite, Philippines, and migrated to San Jose, Leyte after the Spanish-American War. She was a relative on her father’s side of General Emilio Aguinaldo, President of the first Philippine Republic.
“Simeona Kalingag, from San Jose, Leyte, whose father was a relative of Emilio Aguinaldo, the general and president of the fledgling Philippine republic.”
From: The MacArthur Highway and Other Relics of American Empire in the Philippines by Joseph P. McCallus, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, Pg 53 “The King of Leyte and the Junkyard Oakie” (with a credit to Lia Scott Price, Walter's great-granddaughter.)
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Walter Scott Price Gravesite
Walter Scott Price on Find A Grave
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Clara Tambuting Legarda Will
Legarda-Tambunting Estate
My great-grandmother Doña Clara Tambunting de Legarda died testate on April 22, 1950, leaving properties of great value. One such property was the "Legarda Tambunting Subdivision" located from Rizal Avenue to Aurora Blvd to downtown Manila in Manila. Philippines, an area of 80,238.90 sq. m. Her entire estate was placed under Custody of Law and her husband, Don Vicente L. Legarda, was appointed as a special administrator of the estate.
Clara Tambunting's will was probated on August 21, 1950. She left as sole and direct heir her grandson, my father, Vicente Legarda Price, who was an only child of her only daughter Clarita Tambunting (my grandmother) married to Walter Scott Price II (son of my great-grandfather Walter Scott Price Sr.). Clarita died during the Liberation in 1945; her surviving spouse Walter (“Lolo Scotty”) later remarried and returned to the United States. His sister Pacifica Price de Barrios was later appointed guardian of the minor Vicente Legarda Price who was around ten or eleven years old. Clara left 4/6 of her estate to her grandson Vicente Legarda Price, in the form of cash at P250,000.00 (about 3 million USD in today's dollars) and, according to my father, a title to 5,000 square meters of her property.
Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT, Manila. G.R. No. L-8162, August 30, 1955.
Vicente Legarda was later relieved of administrative duty and The Philippine Trust Company took over as administrator of the Testate Estate of Clara Tambunting de Legarda. The Legarda-Tambunting Subdivision was later acquired by Manotok Realty, Inc.
On June 11, 1977, the Marcos regime ordered a nationwide slum improvement and resettlement program and 52,688.70 square meters of the Tambunting Estate was expropriated (governmental seizure of property) under Presidential Decree No. 1669, s. 1980 for urban land reform under the National Housing Authority.
On May 2l, 1987, (G.R. No. L-55166 May 2l, 1987), the constitutionality of Presidential Decree and the expropriation of the Tambunting Estate was challenged and that the owners were deprived of their properties without due process of law. The Tambunting estate is valuable commercial multi-million peso property. The Presidential Decree expropriation was declared unconstitutional and null and void ab initio by the Republic of the Philippines Supreme Court, Manila. The judgment of the Court invalidated the 1977 Presidential Decree.
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Vicente Legarda Price Lineage
Vicente Legarda Price is the only son of Walter Scott "Scotty" Price II from his first marriage to Clarita Tambunting Legarda Price and the grandson of Walter Scott Price and Simeona Kalingag Price. Walter Scott "Scotty" Price II (Jr.) is the son of Walter Scott Price.
On January 1, 1942, Walter's son. Walter Scott Price Jr. “Scotty”, married Doña Clarita Tambunting Legarda (born May 6, 1920, who died Feb. 16, 1945 from shrapnel during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines WWII). Her only son Vicente (Vincent) Legarda Price was 6 months old. Vicente later married Corazon Relova of Pila, Laguna, Philippines (my mother).
Clarita Tambuting Legarda (Photos from Valerie Price)
Doña Clarita's mother was Doña Clara Tambunting de Legarda (1881-1950), who was born in 1881 to Don Idelfonso Cosiam Tan Bunting (Tambunting). Doña Clara Tambunting Legarda died on April 2, 1950, leaving properties of great value. Her will was probated on August 21, 1950. She left as her sole and direct heir her grandson Vicente Legarda Price, an only child of her only daughter Doña Clarita.
Property value 250,000 pesos (Aug 30, 1955 G.R. No. L-8162 Philippine Supreme Court File). (About 3 Million USD in 1950).
Don Ildefonso Tambunting (Tan Bunting) was my Chinese ancestor on my father’s side. He was the son of a Chinese immigrant from Fujian, China. He was married to Doña Filomena Concepcion de Tan Bunting. In 1932, the name Tan Bunting was changed to Tambunting. They operated the largest pawn shop in the Philippines in 1890.
Don Ildefonso Tambunting History
Tambunting Pawn Shop History
Tambunting Mausoleum
Spanish Side:
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Doña Clarita's father was Don Vicente Lucio Flores Legarda, born Dec. 13, 1873. Don Vicente was a naval architect, marine engineer, and teacher. He was a Glasgow, Scotland-educated architect who trained under Daniel Hudson Burnham who drew up the city planning maps for Manila and Baguio City, Philippines. In 1902, he taught in San Francisco, USA, and went home on Manila in 1909 to become one of Manila's prominent architects. He died Feb 24, 1956, in Manila, Philippines at age 82. He is buried in Manila, Philippines. His parents were Don Miguel Legarda and Doña Genoveva Flores-Legarda. Don Miguel Legarda was born July 2, 1852 in Binondo, Manila, Philippines.
Don Miguel is the son of Don Benito Pablo Legarda y Lerma and Doña Cirila Tuason de Legarda.
Don Miguel had a brother, Don Cosme Benito Legarda y Tuason, born September 26, 1853 in Binondo, Manila, (died August 15, 1915 at 61 years old in Évian-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, and buried in Manila, Philippines). Don Cosme Benito was married to Teresa de la Paz de Legarda. He earned a law degree from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, in 1874. He was a politician and lawyer and member of President Emilio Aguinaldo's cabinet at Malolos and vice president of the Filipino Congress 1896-1898. He was Resident Commissioner for the US Congress 1907 – 1913, representing State/Territory: Philippine Islands. (Legarda, Benito, 1853-1915, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress).
From wikipedia:
Benito Cosme Legarda y Tuason (September 27, 1853 – August 27, 1915) was a Filipino legislator who was a member of the Philippine Commission of the American colonial Insular Government, the government's legislature, and later a Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands to the United States Congress.
Benito Legarda died on August 27, 1915, in Evian-les-Bains, France. He is buried at the Manila North Cemetery.
The Legardas are considered one of Manila’s oldest families:
Manila’s Original 400 Old Family Names
Doña Teresa de la Paz de Legarda (born October 15, 1841 in Marikina, Manila, Philippines, died April 22, 1890 at 48 in Marikina, Manila, Philippines of Pneumonia) once owned the largest private hacienda in the Philippines in the 1800s and is the ancestor of the Tuason-Legarda-Prieto-Valdes Clan of Manila, Philippines. She was first married to Don Jose Severo Tuason, the son of Don Jose Maria Tuason and Doña Maria Jose Patiño y Tuason.
The Tuasons were the only Chinese family in the Philippines granted with patents of nobility by a Spanish monarch. Her second husband was Don Benito Legarda y Tuason, a third cousin of Don Jose Severo. The Tuasons descended from an 18th-century Chinese trader, Son Tua (later changed to Tuason). During the British occupation, Son Tua aided the Spaniards in fighting off the British and was awarded land and a noble title.
The Oldest Family Names in Manila
Don Benito Pablo was born on January 12, 1822 in Zubielqui, Navarra, Navarra, Spain, and died January 15, 1873 at age 51 in Binondo, Manila, Philippines.
Don Benito Pablo is the son of Don Juan Domingo Pablo Legarda Alcaine, born August 12, 1798, in Allín, Navarre, Spain, and Doña Juana Lerma.
Sources:
-The Last Hacendera: Doña Teresa de la Paz, 1841-1890 Luciano P. R. Santiago of Pila, Laguna
-Teresa de la Paz: Feminine Wiles and Family Trees, Filipino Geneology Project. Spanish-Filipino (Mestiza) Ancestry
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The Price Family Bible
I'm currently researching what was my great-great grandmother Charlotte Catharina Geist and Marx Christian Price's religion, which would help me find any church records. However, this Bible was common in the 1800s, and every family seems to have one.
Here are pictures of my great-great grandmother Charlotte Catharina Geist's Bible,
Description:
The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, together with the Apocrypha: Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, with A Brief Concordance. Published circa mid-1870’s. Antique Leather binding with intricate gilt illustrations. Printed by Whilt & Yost, 805 Market Street, Philadelphia, between 1850 and 1872, according to the standards of the American Bible Society, founded in 1816 by prominent American Protestants, and used the King James Bible.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bible_Society
Charlotte (Catharina, Katherine) Geist may possibly have records in:
Hessen (Hesse), Deutschland (Germany), Hesse, Hesse-Kassel, Hess Darmstadt, Hess-Marburg, Hess-Reinfels, Rhineland, and Waldeck, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1661-1957.
Germany was composed of Lutheran, Protestant, and Jewish religions.
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Price Mansion Historical Photos
The Price Mansion (wikipedia)
The Price Mansion is a historic landmark in Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines.
In 1944, General Douglas MacArthur had used my great-grandfather Walter Scott Price's 12-room mansion as his headquarters during WWII. Pictured with MacArthur is my great-grandmother (first photo, seated, right) Simeona Kalingag Price.
My great-grandfather Walter Scott Price was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and had built the mansion in 1910. When he was 21, he was one of the 12 US army engineers sent to the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. He met and married Simeona Kalingag. Nicknamed the "King of Leyte", he built roads, transportation services, schools, and a hospital.
A memorable part of the historic mansion is a hole caused by a wartime projectile which penetrated the roof over General MacArthur’s room. The hole can still be seen today.
During the war, my great-grandfather was held in a Japanese prison camp inside the University of Santo Tomas campus. After General MacArthur released the prisoners of war from the camp, Walter Scott Price died of pneumonia in 1945 at the age of 68 and is buried in Tacloban. My great-grandmother, Simeona, died in 1973 at the age of 100.
The Price Family with General Douglas MacArthur. Photos are from my dad's family albums.
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Marx Christian Price Family Immigration Records
Marx Christian Price and his family immigration records from Germany and census records from Philadelphia, PA. (source: ancestry.com)
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Marx Christian Price Family Grave
Marx Christian Price and his family are buried in Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia PA, USA
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