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'''Gwilym Alexander Price''' (June 20, 1895, [[Canonsburg, Pennsylvania]] – June 1, 1985, [[Kennedy Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania]]) was a lawyer, Pennsylvania state legislator, banker, and industrialist.
==Biography==
Because of the death of his father, who was a tin mill worker,<ref name=HAA></ref> Gwylim A. Price dropped out of high school to support his widowed mother.<ref name=NYT></ref> He took a secretarial course and worked full-time for a mortgage company. After studying nights and weekends, he entered the University of Pittsburgh Law School. After graduating in 1917 (as the youngest member of the class),<ref name=HAA/> he became a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army<ref name=PHR></ref>
Price was from 1957 to 1959 the national chair of the [[Crusade for Freedom]].<ref name=NYT/> He was from 1959 to 1970 the chair of the University of Pittsburgh's board of trustees.<ref name=HP/>
Price was featured on the cover of ''[[Time Magazine]]'' in the March 2, 1953 issue.<ref> March 2, 1953|website=Time Weekly Newsmagazine Cover (time.com)|url=http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19530302,00.html}}</ref> He won in 1957 the Horatio Alger Award<ref name=HAA/> and in 1960 the [[John Fritz Medal]]. In the early 1970s the University of Pittsburgh held Gwilym Price Engineering Lectures. He was given honorary degrees from several institution, including the [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] and [[Allegheny College]].<ref name=HP/>
About 1921 Price married Marion Roberts, who was a high school teacher in Pittsburgh.<ref name=HP/> The couple had three sons.
Upon Price's death he was survived by two sons, eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. The eldest son, Judge Gwilym A. Price Jr. of Pennsylvania Superior Court, died in 1983<ref name=NYT/> at age 60.
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1895 births]]
[[Category:1985 deaths]]
[[Category:University of Pittsburgh School of Law alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century American businesspeople]]
[[Category:Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives]]
[[Category:Pennsylvania Republicans]]
[[Category:Westinghouse Electric Company]]
[[Category:People from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania]]
==Biography==
Because of the death of his father, who was a tin mill worker,<ref name=HAA></ref> Gwylim A. Price dropped out of high school to support his widowed mother.<ref name=NYT></ref> He took a secretarial course and worked full-time for a mortgage company. After studying nights and weekends, he entered the University of Pittsburgh Law School. After graduating in 1917 (as the youngest member of the class),<ref name=HAA/> he became a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army<ref name=PHR></ref>
Price was from 1957 to 1959 the national chair of the [[Crusade for Freedom]].<ref name=NYT/> He was from 1959 to 1970 the chair of the University of Pittsburgh's board of trustees.<ref name=HP/>
Price was featured on the cover of ''[[Time Magazine]]'' in the March 2, 1953 issue.<ref> March 2, 1953|website=Time Weekly Newsmagazine Cover (time.com)|url=http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19530302,00.html}}</ref> He won in 1957 the Horatio Alger Award<ref name=HAA/> and in 1960 the [[John Fritz Medal]]. In the early 1970s the University of Pittsburgh held Gwilym Price Engineering Lectures. He was given honorary degrees from several institution, including the [[Carnegie Institute of Technology]] and [[Allegheny College]].<ref name=HP/>
About 1921 Price married Marion Roberts, who was a high school teacher in Pittsburgh.<ref name=HP/> The couple had three sons.
Upon Price's death he was survived by two sons, eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. The eldest son, Judge Gwilym A. Price Jr. of Pennsylvania Superior Court, died in 1983<ref name=NYT/> at age 60.
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1895 births]]
[[Category:1985 deaths]]
[[Category:University of Pittsburgh School of Law alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century American businesspeople]]
[[Category:Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives]]
[[Category:Pennsylvania Republicans]]
[[Category:Westinghouse Electric Company]]
[[Category:People from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania]]
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