Henry Bertram Price

Upon graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1895, Price became an assistant engineer and an ensign.{{cite news|title=Six-Year Cadets Assigned to Duty|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/07/02/102464199.pdf|access-date=22 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2 July 1895|agency=The New York Times Company|location=New York City}} He became a lieutenant in 1901.{{cite news|title=Appointments in the Navy |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1901-07-26/ed-1/seq-10/ocr/ |access-date=21 March 2011 |newspaper=New York Tribune |date=26 July 1901 |agency=Chronicling America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020232839/http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1901-07-26/ed-1/seq-10/ocr/ |pages=10 |archive-date=20 October 2012 |url-status=dead}} With this rank, he served aboard both {{USS|Don Juan de Austria}} and {{USS|Princeton|PG-13|6}}.{{cite news|title=The United Service|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/06/07/101074323.pdf|access-date=22 March 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=7 June 1901|agency=The New York Times Company|location=New York City}} In 1907, he served in the Bureau of Ordnance.{{cite journal|title=The Navy of the United States|journal=The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book|year=1907|volume=24|page=221|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y24TAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Henry+B+Price%22&pg=PA221|access-date=22 March 2011|publisher=Chicago Daily News|location=Chicago}} In 1913, he became the executive officer aboard the battleship {{USS|Delaware|BB-28|6}}.{{cite book|title=Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States|year=1913|publisher=Bureau of Naval Personnel|location=Millington, Tennessee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1YuAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Henry+B+Price%22&pg=PA46|access-date=22 March 2011|page=46|volume=3}} In December 1915, he set sail as the first commanding officer of {{USS|Melville|AD-2|6}}.{{cite book|last=Mooney|first=James|title=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships|year=1981|publisher=Naval History & Heritage Command|location=Washington, D.C.|chapter-url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m8/melville-i.htm|access-date=22 March 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240525065140/https://www.webcitation.org/5xMtkmNfL?url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m8/melville-i.htm|archive-date=25 May 2024|chapter=Melville}} He was promoted to the rank of Captain in 1917.{{cite journal|title=21 to Be Temporary Rear Admirals, 51 Captains, and 125 Commanders by Approval of President Wilson|journal=Official U. S. Bulletin|year=1917|volume=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qkjmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Henry+B+Price%22&pg=PA439|access-date=22 March 2011|publisher=United States Committee on Public Relations|location=Washington, D.C.}}

Price served as Governor of Guam from August 4, 1923, to August 26, 1924.{{cite web|title=Naval Era Governors of Guam |url=http://guampedia.com/naval-era-governors-of-guam/ |work=Guampedia |publisher=University of Guam |access-date=21 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711134857/http://guampedia.com/naval-era-governors-of-guam/ |archive-date=11 July 2011 |location=Guam |date=10 August 2010 |url-status=dead}} During his term, he encouraged an increase in self-sufficient farming. He also developed the area of Mangilao, Guam by building a road to the village and ordering the establishment of the Guam Department of Agriculture and a dairy factory there.{{cite web|last=Guerrero |first=Victoria-Lola Leon |title=Mangilao |url=http://guampedia.com/mangilao/ |work=Guampedia |publisher=University of Guam |access-date=22 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726154909/http://guampedia.com/mangilao/ |archive-date=26 July 2011 |location=Guam |date=4 August 2010 |url-status=dead}}

• Navy Cross for actions aboard the USS Dixie off the coast of Ireland during World War 1.

In December 1897, Price married Katherine French Banks at St. Andrews Cathedral in Honolulu, Hawaii. {{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20912476/dec-9-1897-at-wedding-of-katherine/ |title=A Society Affair - A Very Pretty Wedding at St. Andrew's - Marriages of Henry B. Price and Miss Katherine French Banks |publisher=The Honolulu Advertiser |page=8 |date=December 9, 1897 |accessdate=November 15, 2021}}{{cite news|title=Local Brevities |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1901-03-15/ed-1/seq-4/ocr/ |access-date=21 March 2011 |newspaper=The Hawaiian Gazette |date=15 March 1901 |agency=Chronicling America |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020223538/http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1901-03-15/ed-1/seq-4/ocr/ |archive-date=20 October 2012 |page=4 |url-status=dead}}

The Captain Henry B. Price Elementary School is named in his honor.{{cite web|title=Management and Curriculum Audit for the Guam Public School System: Final Report |url=http://www.bit.guam.gov/Portals/148/GEPB/FINAL-REPORT-APRIL13-GPSS-MANAGEMENT-AND-CURRICULUM-AUDIT.pdf |work=Evergreen Solutions |publisher=Guam Public School System |access-date=21 March 2011 |location=Hagåtña, Guam |pages=2–43 |date=13 April 2009 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910173044/http://www.bit.guam.gov/Portals/148/GEPB/FINAL-REPORT-APRIL13-GPSS-MANAGEMENT-AND-CURRICULUM-AUDIT.pdf |archive-date=10 September 2011 }} The school was opened in 1958 and serves grades kindergarten through five; it was named because of Price's push for agricultural development in the area in the 1920s.

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