{{Short description|American insurance executive (1867–1946)}} {{Infobox person | image = Julian_Price.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1867|11|25}} | birth_place = Richmond, Virginia, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|10|25|1867|11|25}} | death_place = North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, U.S. | resting_place = Green Hill Cemetery | other_names = | known_for = | spouse = Ethel Clay Price | children = 2 (including Kathleen) | occupation = Insurance executive | relatives = Nancy Bryan Faircloth (granddaughter) }}

'''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.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2841500078.html | work = Thomson Gale| title = International Directory of Company Histories | accessdate = 2010-02-15}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://olgchurch.org/about-us/parish-history/ |title=Parish History &#124; 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 }}</ref>

== Legacy==

The Julian Price Memorial Park is near the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

== 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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;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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