Julian Price

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.

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.

Legacy
The Julian Price Memorial Park is near the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway.