Alfred Douglas Price
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Alfred Douglas Price (1860 - 1921) was a businessman in Richmond, Virginia. He had an undertaking business. The building is extant.[1]
He was born enslaved in Hanover County and trained as a blacksmith.[2]
He served as president of the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, an insurance company, and was a director of banks serving African Americans.[3] He was active in numerous fraternal organizations.[1]
One of A. D. Price's hearses is extant and part of a museum exhibition. He owned a Kline Motor Car Corporation car. The car is extant. The car company manufactured in Richmond.[4]
The funeral home at 208 East Leigh Street features on a postcard.[5] A historical marker commemorates its history.[6] It is in the Jackson Ward. A mortician bought the building in 2019.[7] In 2022 a five-story apartment building was approved to be built on its parking lot.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "A.D. Price Funeral Home (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov.
- ↑ "A. D. Price Funeral Establishment". Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
- ↑ "Negro Year Book and Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro". Monroe N. Work. November 18, 1922 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Progress Report: Restoring the Kline Kar, Owned by Black Businessman, A.D. Price".
- ↑ "The A. D. Price Jr. Funeral Home, 208 East Leigh Street, Richmond, Virginia". www.digitalcommonwealth.org.
- ↑ "Alfred D. "A.D." Price". virginiahighways.org.
- ↑ Staff, Times-Dispatch. "Farmville mortician buys A.D. Price Funeral Home". Richmond Times-Dispatch.
- ↑ "City Council gives green light to new $13M apartment development at former funeral home site". richmondfreepress.com.
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