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Julian Price | |
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Born | |
Died | October 25, 1946 | (aged 78)
Occupation | Insurance executive |
Spouse | Ethel Clay Price |
Children | 2 (including Kathleen) |
Relatives | Nancy Bryan Faircloth (granddaughter) |
Julian Price (November 25, 1867 – October 25, 1946)[citation needed] was an insurance executive who made his fortune in the first part of the twentieth century by developing the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company.[citation needed]
Adult life and career
Price was an insurance salesman for the Greensboro Life Insurance Company of North Carolina.[1]
In 1919, Price bought the Greensboro Daily Record newspaper.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
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.[2]
Legacy
The Julian Price Memorial Park is near the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway.[3]
References
- ^ "International Directory of Company Histories". Thomson Gale. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
- ^ "Parish History | Our Lady of Grace Church". Archived from the original on 2014-07-22. Retrieved 2014-07-19.
- ^ "Blue Ridge National Historic area - Julian Price Memorial Park". Archived from the original on 2008-05-10. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
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.