Title: John M. Price Papers, 1972 September
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(1) 5" letter document box
Arrangement
The John M. Price Papers are arranged chronologically.
Abstract
John M. Price (1899-1978) was a Denison University alumnus and American journalist and newspaper editor. The John M. Price Papers, dated 1972 September, contain photocopied typescripts of Price’s diaries and letters written while he was a student at Denison University (1917-1921).
Administrative/Biographical History
John Marshall Price was born on October 1, 1899, in Morgan Park, Illinois. He enrolled at Denison University in the fall of 1917. Price was a Freshman Representative on Student Government in his first year and Sophomore Class President during his second. As a junior, he founded the Flamingo student-run humor and literary magazine. Price was also a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He graduated in 1921.
Price’s first professional venture was as a teacher. By 1926, he had given up teaching and had accepted a position as a night editorial secretary for the New York Herald Tribune. He married Marian “Molly” Bradley that same year. Price was eventually promoted to copyreader, rewriter, and eventually editor—a position he held for 18 years. Due to suspicions of communist activity, he was demoted back to copyreader in 1951. He held this position until his retirement in 1965.
In his retirement, Price became interested in family history as well as preserving his own college diaries and letters. He transcribed these and other of his diaries and letters into a multi-volume bound typescript which he gifted to his eldest son in 1977. Price died on March 7, 1978.
