Background
Price, Andrew was born on February 18, 1890 in Denver. Colorado. Son of John Ewing and Mary D. (Hickman) Price.
Price, Andrew was born on February 18, 1890 in Denver. Colorado. Son of John Ewing and Mary D. (Hickman) Price.
Yale, 1908-1910.
Began in investment banking business with father at Seattle, 1910. Organizer, with father, John East. Price & Company, 1918, Marine National Bank, 1919, vice president, 1919-1925, president 1926-1928 (consolidated with National Bank of Commerce). Vice-president and director National Bank of Commerce, 1928-1932, director, president, 1932-1948, chairman since 1948.
Organizer National Credit Company, 1925, Marine Central Bank (now Central Branch of National Bank Commerce), 1926.
Organizer, 1927, since president, director Marine Bancorporation. Director Seattle Branch Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 1939-1945.
Served as Lieutenant Motor Transport Corps. United States Army, 1917-1918. Trustee, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington.
Member National county, Boy Scouts of America.
Member Victory Fund Committee, 12th Federal Reserve District. Member Washington Bankers Association (president 1933-1934), American Bankers Association (Vice-President, National Bank Division, 1939-1940, president 1940-1941.
Member research council 1937-1940. Member administrative committee 1940-1941), Association of Reserve City Bankers (director 1940-1943), Clearing House Association of Seattle (vice president 1937-1938, president 1939-1940), Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Delta Phi.
Clubs: Rainier.
Married Virginia Wiley, February 2, 1922. Children: Andrew IV, Mary Barbara, Virginia (Mistress Virginia Price Kitchell).