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 Lincoln National Corporation is a ''Fortune'' 200 American holding company, which operates multiple insurance and investment management businesses through subsidiary companies. Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for LNC and its subsi ...

Adult life and career

Price was an insurance salesman for the Greensboro Life Insurance Company of North Carolina. In 1919 Price bought the Greensboro '' Daily Record'' newspaper. In 1929 Price hired the New York architect

Charles C. Hartmann Charles C. Hartmann (1889–1977) was an American architect. A number of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The include: * Alamance Hotel, Maple Ave. and S. Main St. Burlington, NC (Hartmann, Charles) * Atlan ...

to build Hillside in the

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neighborhood. The Fisher Park mansion would become Price's private residence. Price's wife, Ethal, was a practicing

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, and when she died he paid for the construction of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in her honor.

Legacy

The

Julian Price Memorial Park Julian Price Memorial Park is a park of at the foot of Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina, named in honor of Julian Price. It is at milepost 297 on the Blue Ridge Parkway and directly adjacent to the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park. Together the ...

is near the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park on the

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References

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Julian 1867 births 1946 deaths American chief executives American philanthropists 19th-century American businesspeople American corporate directors Corporate executives Businesspeople in insurance American salespeople North Carolina Democrats Baptists from Virginia Road incident deaths in North Carolina Businesspeople from Richmond, Virginia American chairpersons of corporations