Julian Price Explained

Julian Price
Birth Date:	25 November 1867
Birth Place:	Richmond, Virginia
Spouse:	Ethel Clay
Children:	2 (including Kathleen Price Bryan)
Occupation:	Insurance Executive
Relatives:	Nancy Bryan Faircloth (granddaughter)

Julian Price (November 25, 1867  - October 25, 1946) was an insurance executive who made his fortune in the first part of the twentieth century by developing the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company.

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.

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.

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]

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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: International Directory of Company Histories . Thomson Gale. 2010-02-15.
2. Web site: Parish History | Our Lady of Grace Church . 2014-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140722215523/http://olgchurch.org/about-us/parish-history/ . 2014-07-22 . dead .
3. Web site: Blue Ridge National Historic area - Julian Price Memorial Park . 2008-03-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080510224935/http://www.blueridgeheritage.com/NaturalHeritage/NationalParks/BlueRidgeParkway/julianpricememorialpark.html . 2008-05-10 . dead .