Emmett Russell Price
ACE President 1930-31
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg, VA
Emmett Price was born in Natural Bridge,
Virginia, December 2, 1874. He attended Hampden-Sydney College from
1890 to 1894, as well as George Washington University in Washington, D. C. He
edited a newspaper in Blacksburg for five years, and worked for another
paper in Washington, D. C. for six years. In 1916, he became associate
extension editor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, where he also taught
agricultural journalism part-time.
He was 70 when he died in August 1944, following a long illness. On Price's
death, Reuben Brigham said, "If my membership in AAACE had brought me only
the knowledge and friendship of Emmett Price, I would still be in
his debt ..."
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