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Price family papers

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Call Number:
3690
Repository:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Extent:
8.0 linear feet (8 boxes; 2 volumes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate cited item or series here], Price family papers (Collection 3690), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Date:
1840-1990 (inclusive)
Creator:
Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884.
Abstract:
This collection contains the papers of various members of the Price family, as separated from the Woodlands Cemetery Company papers (collection 3661). The main family members documented in this collection are Eli Kirk Price (1797-1884), John Sergeant Price (1831-1897), Eli Kirk Price II (1860-1933), Philip Price (1898-1989), Eli Kirk Price III (April 25, 1904-1976), and Philip Price Jr. (1934- ). Most of the members of this family were lawyers, and all were very involved in Philadelphia civic, cultural, and charity organizations. The personal materials in this collection favor the civic and charity work of the Price family members, especially work done with the Fairmount Park Commission. Aside from the Fairmount Park materials, this collection is mostly estate information, documenting the administration of the Price family estates.

This collection was originally part of the Woodlands Cemetery Company papers (collection 3661) donated by the Woodlands Cemetery Company in 2004. It was separated from the Woodlands Cemetery Company papers during processing October 2012.

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Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Sarah Newhouse
Finding Aid Date
November 2012
Sponsor
Processing of this collection was funded by Philip Price, Jr.
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research, although some materials containing personel, payroll, or medical information are closed to researchers for 75 years after their creation.

Collection Inventory

"Stock certificates and deeds of lots [in Woodlands Cemetery] belonging to the estate of Eli Kirk Price", 1840-1856.
Box 1 Folder 1
Speech given before the Pennsylvania Senate on amendments to the constitution (photocopy), 1856 March 24.
Box 1 Folder 2
Speech given on Margaret Price Paxson's 88th birthday (photocopy), 1880 April 9.
Box 1 Folder 3
Will, 1884.
Box 1 Folder 4
Portrait presented to the Fairmount Park Commission by J. Sergeant Price (photocopy), 1886 March 16.
Box 1 Folder 5
Speech made at the dedication of Price Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, by Hampton L. Carson, 1900 February 22.
Box 1 Folder 6
Philip Price appointed executor and trustee of estate, 1931 February 2.
Box 1 Folder 7
Estate executors' account, 1931-1949, 1949.
Volume 1
Elizabeth Gwen Martin appointed executor and trustee of estate, 1933 February 17.
Box 1 Folder 8
Spruce Street property appraisal ("North side Spruce Street from 48th to 49th Streets; South side Spruce Street from 48th to 50th Streets"), 1933.
Box 1 Folder 9
Certified copies of will, 1934 June 28.
Box 1 Folder 10
Estate accounts and assets, 1935-1936.
Box 1 Folder 11
Plans and blueprints for Spruce Street property development, 1935, 1937, 1944, 1959, 1974, undated.
Oversize 7
Mortgages, 1943, undated.
Box 1 Folder 12
"Data regarding sale of 310-318 South 48th Street and Spruce Street stores", 1947-1959, 1965.
Box 1 Folder 13
Memoranda by Philip Price regarding the estates of Eli Kirk Price and J. Sergeant Price, 1948, 1949.
Box 1 Folder 14
Statement of proposed distribution of estate, 1950 January 5.
Box 1 Folder 15
Call for audit of estate, 1950 July 3.
Box 1 Folder 16
Schedule for distribution of estate, 1950.
Box 1 Folder 17
Agreement of sale between Philip Price and American Stores Company for 310-318 South 48th Street, 1958 September 4.
Box 1 Folder 18
Title report for 310-318 South 48th Street, 1958 September 19.
Box 1 Folder 19
Sale of 4820-4822 Spruce Street, 1962, 1971.
Box 1 Folder 20
Appraisal of 4806-4822 Spruce Street, 1969 March 25.
Box 1 Folder 21
Appraisal of 4806-4818 Spruce Street, 1971 August 10.
Box 2 Folder 1
Estate account book, 1972-1985, 1985.
Volume 2
Sale of 4806-4818 Spruce Street, 1973 December 7.
Box 2 Folder 2
"Trust of certain interests in the 'undivided estate' portion of the estate of Eli K. Price", 1973.
Box 2 Folder 3
129 Bethlehem Pike: The "Piper-Price House", 1981, undated.
Box 2 Folder 4
4806, 4810, 4812, and 4818 Spruce Street purchase by Woodlands Cemetery Company, 1985.
Box 2 Folder 5
Biographical information, undated.
Box 2 Folder 6

Stocks and bonds, 1863, 1885-1919, 1933.
Box 2 Folder 7
Stock certificates, 1889.
Oversize 1
Life insurance policies, 1893-1910.
Box 2 Folder 8
Letters from Louis Ball of Newton Square, Pennsylvania, regarding debt owed to Price, 1902, 1903.
Box 2 Folder 9
Will (photocopy), 1930 April 7.
Box 2 Folder 10
Schedule of distribution of estate, 1933.
Box 2 Folder 11
Silver cigarette case given to Eli K. Price II by Prince Takamatsu of Japan at a dinner at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, April 21, 1931, c. 1931.
Box 7
Declarations of trust for real estate to Woodlands Cemetery, 1933-1934.
Box 2 Folder 12
Philip Price given Eli Kirk Price III's powers as trustee of Eli Kirk Price Jr.'s estate while Eli Kirk Price III is in the military, 1945 April 2.
Box 2 Folder 13
Reinstatement of Eli Kirk Price III as trustree of Eli Kirk Price Jr.'s estate following discharge from military service, 1960 July 20.
Box 2 Folder 14
Biographical research by Barbara Howe, 1976 May.
Box 2 Folder 15
Executors' account of estate (1934-1977), 1977.
Box 2 Folder 16
Biographical information, undated.
Box 2 Folder 17

Maps and plans of Fairmount Park, 1868, 1956, 1965, undated.
Oversize 5
"Agreements with boat clubs, etc." in Fairmount Park, 1927, 1937-1939, 1951-1969.
Box 2 Folder 18
Fairmount Park historic houses, 1935, 1951-1957, 1966-1971.
Box 2 Folder 19
"Parks and parkways miscellaneous", 1949, 1957-1968.
Box 3 Folder 1
Fairmount Park Commission handbook, 1952.
Box 3 Folder 2
Certificates of appointment as park commissioner, 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967.
Box 3 Folder 3
Proposed site for Thomas S. Gates High School, 1957, 1969-1971.
Box 3 Folder 4
"Attempts to use park land for other purposes", 1958-1969.
Box 3 Folder 5
Fort Mifflin "report to the Greater Philadelphia Movement upon historical aspects and preservation problems", 1959.
Box 3 Folder 6
Loudoun Mansion, 1966-1971.
Box 3 Folder 7
Sale of Rodin's The Kiss, 1968-1971.
Box 3 Folder 8
Fairmount Park historic houses, 1968-1972.
Box 3 Folder 9
Photographs of watercolor painting of Belmont Mansion, 1969, undated.
Box 3 Folder 10
Thomas S. Gates High School maps and plans, 1970-1971.
Oversize 9
Fairmount Park proposed housing development, 1971.
Box 3 Folder 11
Philip Price not re-elected as Fairmount Park commissioner, 1972.
Box 3 Folder 12
"East Park: A Concept Toward a More Abundant Life", 1970s.
Box 3 Folder 13

"Inventory and valuations of furniture and furnishings for insurance purposes in the residence of Eli Kirk Price III, 129 Bethlehem Pike", 1951.
Box 3 Folder 14
Richard Nixon medal "for the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society", c. 1969.
Box 8
"Inventory and appraisement for insurance purposes: Furniture and furnishings in the residence of Mr. Eli Kirk Price III, 129 Bethlehem Pike", 1970 July 22.
Box 4 Folder 1
Will and codicil, 1970, 1972.
Box 4 Folder 2
"Dossier on Eli Kirk Price III, candidate for state senate campaign in 1974 in Chestnut Hill and Germantown area, 9th ward", 1973, 1974.
Box 4 Folder 3
Obituaries, 1976 October 26.
Box 4 Folder 4
Appraisal of house at 129 Bethlehem Pike, 1976.
Box 4 Folder 5
Estate, 1976-1977.
Box 4 Folder 6
Will of Lydia T. Morris and the Morris Arboretum, 1977 May 16.
Box 4 Folder 7
Awards, 1977.
Box 4 Folder 8
First and final account of executors of will, 1979.
Box 4 Folder 9
Map of Eastern Delaware County, undated.
Oversize 2

Workers' compensation and insurance for employees [Closed to researchers until 2060], 1946, 1961, 1976-1985.
Box 4 Folder 10
Real estate, 1967, 1983.
Box 4 Folder 11
Workers' compensation and insurance for employees [Closed to researchers until 2065], 1979-1990.
Box 4 Folder 12
Woodlands Cemetery Company fire and liability insurance, 1970s.
Box 6
Mortgages and real estate, 1970s-1980s.
Box 6
Bills, 1985, 1989-1991.
Box 4 Folder 13
Miscellaneous, 1980s, undated.
Box 4 Folder 14

Price, John Sergeant (1831-1897): Estate and investments, 1866-1917.
Box 4 Folder 15
Price, John Sergeant: "In memoriam John Sergeant Price: Proceedings of a meeting of the Bar of Philadelphia", 1897 October 16.
Box 4 Folder 16
Price, John Sergeant: Will, 1897.
Box 4 Folder 17
Price, John Sergeant: Obituary, 1898 January 27.
Box 5 Folder 1
Price, John Sergeant: Biographical information, undated.
Box 5 Folder 2
Martin, Elizabeth Price (1864-1933): Will, 1931 January 31.
Box 5 Folder 3
Martin, Elizabeth Price: Federal estate tax return, 1932 June 10.
Box 5 Folder 4
Martin, Elizabeth Price: "Philip Price, trustee under the will of Elizabeth Price Martin, deceased, real estate acquired through forclosure", c. 1944.
Box 5 Folder 5
Martin, Elizabeth Price: Trustees' account of estate, 1978.
Box 5 Folder 6
Martin, Elizabeth Price: Trustees' account of estate, 1979.
Box 5 Folder 6
Rivinus, Edward Florens (1878-1958): Estate and will, 1942-1948.
Box 5 Folder 8
Rivinus, Edward Florens: Florida property, 1946-1947.
Box 5 Folder 9
Rivinus, Edward Florens: Medical history, transcriptions and excerpts from doctors' letters [Closed to researchers until 2022], c. 1947.
Box 5 Folder 10
Rivinus, Edward Florens: "Estate tax matters", 1966, undated.
Box 5 Folder 11
Price, John Sergeant Jr. (1883-1948): Will, 1948.
Box 5 Folder 12
Price, John Sergeant Jr.: First and final account of estate, 1956.
Box 5 Folder 13
Price, John Sergeant Jr.: Examination of estate, 1964.
Box 5 Folder 14
Price, Evelyn Taylor: Estate, 1938-1948.
Box 5 Folder 15
Price, Evelyn Taylor: Estate account, 1945.
Box 5 Folder 16
Price, Evelyn Taylor: Estate debt owed and paid to the estate of Eli Kirk Price, c. 1951.
Box 5 Folder 17
Rivinus, Marion Willis Martin: Estate account, 1947.
Box 5 Folder 18
Martin, Elizabeth Gwen (1894-1950): Will, 1946 December 21.
Box 5 Folder 19
Martin, Elizabeth Gwen: Death certificate, 1950 October 10.
Box 5 Folder 20
Martin, Elizabeth Gwen: Agreement between executors of her estate and purchaser of land owned by her descendant, 1951.
Box 5 Folder 21
Martin, Elizabeth Gwen: Approval of account, receipt, and release of estate, 1965.
Box 5 Folder 22
Bartol, Margaretta Harrison: Will, 1960.
Box 5 Folder 23

Genealogy of Price family, undated.
Box 5 Folder 24
Price family investment and property records, 1951-1985.
Box 6
Map: Eastern Canada, 1967.
Oversize 4
Map: Northern Europe (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden), 1936.
Oversize 6
Map: Philadelphia Transportation Company Street and Transit Map of Philadelphia, 1966 March.
Oversize 8
Plan of properties in the 21st Ward at Richter and Sumac Streets, made for the Code Products Corporation and Morgan J. Lewis, 1954.
Oversize 3
Property records relating to family members' estates, c. 1970.
Box 6

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