Career
Price began life as a working miner and recalled this period when addressing a public meeting called by Henry Austen Bruce during the 1857-1858Aberdare Strike. Soon after he was ordained as its minister. Siloa was established at the very time when Aberdare was rapidly developing as an industrial settlement as a result of the growth of the steam coal trade.
During his pastorate, large numbers of migrants, notably from the rural counties of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire and Breconshire, stimulated the rapid growth of the membership at Siloa to over 600, making it the most numerous church in the valley in terms of membership by the 1860s.
David Price was instrumental in establishing additional chapels at Bethesda, Abernant, where he also served as pastor, and at Cwmbach, and was also involved with the new causes at Aberaman, Mountain Ash and Cwmbach. A biography was published in the 1890s, written by his successor at Siloa, Doctorate. Silyn Evans.
David Price was involved in political life throughout his pastorate, though not to the same extent as his contemporary, Thomas Price. They did, however, share a natural antipathy towards trade unionism, as demonstrated by David Price"s remarks during the 1857-1858 Aberdare Strike.
Price died on 5 December 1868, shortly before his 68th birthday.
He was buried at Aberdare Cemetery.
