Julian Price
{{Short description|American insurance executive (1867–1946)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1867|11|25}}
| birth_place = Richmond, Virginia, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|10|25|1867|11|25}}
| death_place = North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, US
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| spouse = Ethel Clay Price
| children = 2 (including Kathleen)
| occupation = Insurance executive
| relatives = Nancy Bryan Faircloth (granddaughter)
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Julian Price (November 25, 1867 – October 25, 1946){{cn|date=February 2023}} was an insurance executive who made his fortune in the first part of the twentieth century by developing the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company.{{cn|date=February 2023}}
Adult life and career
Price was an insurance salesman for the Greensboro Life Insurance Company of North Carolina.{{cite web | url = http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2841500078.html | work = Thomson Gale| title = International Directory of Company Histories | accessdate = 2010-02-15}}
In 1919, Price bought the Greensboro Daily Record newspaper.{{cn|date=February 2023}}
In 1929, Price hired the New York architect Charles C. Hartmann to build Hillside in the Fisher Park neighborhood. The Fisher Park mansion would become Price's private residence.{{cn|date=February 2023}}
Price's wife, Ethal, was a practicing Catholic, and when she died he paid for the construction of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in her honor.{{Cite web |url=http://olgchurch.org/about-us/parish-history/ |title=Parish History | Our Lady of Grace Church |access-date=2014-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722215523/http://olgchurch.org/about-us/parish-history/ |archive-date=2014-07-22 |url-status=dead }}
Legacy
The Julian Price Memorial Park is near the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway.{{Cite web |url=http://www.blueridgeheritage.com/NaturalHeritage/NationalParks/BlueRidgeParkway/julianpricememorialpark.html |title=Blue Ridge National Historic area - Julian Price Memorial Park |access-date=2008-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510224935/http://www.blueridgeheritage.com/NaturalHeritage/NationalParks/BlueRidgeParkway/julianpricememorialpark.html |archive-date=2008-05-10 |url-status=dead }}
References
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Bibliography
- "PRICE, Julian," The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume XXXIV (New York: James T. White & Company, 1948) pages 430–431
- The Jefferson Standard Story, Jeffersonian, August 1982, pp. 14–17.
- International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 29. St. James Press, 1999.
- Weidner, David, Unchartered Waters, Greensboro News & Record, March 9, 1997, p. E1.
- Still, John T., Jefferson-Pilot and Parsons Group Settle Litigation, PR Newswire, April 5, 1993.
- Marshall, Kyle, JP Reaches Outside for Next CEO, News & Observer, August 12, 1992, Bus. Sec.
- Greensboro's Home to Major Insurance Companies, Greensboro News & Record, September 16, 1990, p. 40.
- Catanoso, Justin, Insurer Continues Toward Lofty Goal, Greensboro News & Record, February 25, 1997, p. A1.
- Coleman, Kathleen, The Pilot at JP Communications, Business Journal-Charlotte, November 13, 1989, Sec. 1, p. 8.
- Fox, James F., 75 Years: 1907 to 1982; Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, Greensboro, N.C.: Jefferson-Pilot Corp.
- Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Volume 5, P-S. Edited by William S. Powell. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
- Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 1: January, 1946-July, 1949. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1949.
- Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 2: August, 1949-August, 1952. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1953.
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