Kanawha County, West Virginia          Biography of George Edmund PRICE

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pgs. 250-251


GEORGE EDMUND PRICE recently passed the golden anniversary of his admission
to the bar.  Fifty years a lawyer, he has spent all but the first few years
in West Virginia, his native state, and for a third of a century has stood
among the leaders of the bar of Charleston.  The progenitors of the family
settled in Maryland in early Colonial days, and the great-grandfather,
Thomas Price, served as a colonel in the American army during the
Revolutionary war.

George E. Price was born on a farm near Moorefield, Hardy County, West
Virginia, November 9, 1848, and is of Welsh ancestry.  His family was a
substantial one, with professional connections, and he acquired a liberal
education in preparation for his chosen profession.  He attended Georgetown
University at Washington, where he enjoyed many of the college honors.  In
December, 1871, he was admitted to the bar in Frederick County, Maryland,
where he studied law with his great uncle, Gen. James M. Coale.  In 1875 he
returned to West Virginia, and practiced at Keyser in Mineral County until
1890, when he located at Charleston.  In the meantime, in 1882, he was
elected a member of the State Senate, and served continuously for eight
years and was presiding officer of the Senate in the sessions of 1885-1887
and 1889.

On removing to Charleston, Mr. Price was associated in practice with Hon. S.
L. Flournoy until the latter's death.  He is now senior member of the law
firm Price, Smith, Spilman and Clay, on of the most highly accredited firms
of the state bar.  The group of attorneys associated with Mr. Price in this
firm include Harrison B. Smith, Robert S. Spilman, Buckner Clay, Arthur B.
Hodges, David C. Howard, T. Brooke Price, John J. D. Preston and Frederick
L. Thomas.

In the settlement of the boundary dispute between West Virginia and Maryland
Mr. Price was selected by Governor Fleming to represent the State of West
Virginia before the Supreme Court.  His brief, pleadings and oral arguments
in that case were the contributing factors in the final decision, and the
case became on of importance beyond immediate results as a precedent for
settling similar questions.  Mr. Price was one of the organizers of the
Kanawha National Bank and also of the Kanawha Banking and Trust Company, of
which he is a director and vice president.  In and out of his profession he
has exercised an important influence in many industrial developments through
the state.

In June, 1878, Mr. Price married Miss Sallie A. Dorsey, of Howard County,
Maryland.  Of their children two sons are lawyers.  For many years Mr. Price
has served as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. While he is not the
Nestor of the Charleston bar, he has long been regarded as one of its most
honored members, with unquestioned ability and versatility of talent and
personal character that mark him as one of the eminent men of the state.



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