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Special Collections, Virginia Tech
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Processed by: Clayton McGahee, Special Collections
Collection is open for research.
Permission to publish material from Harvey Lee Price Papers must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Harvey Lee Price Papers, Ms1975-001, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Harvey Lee Price Papers were donated to Special Collections in four accumulations: two in the 1940s, one in 1975, and the final in 1984.
The procesing, arrangement, and description of the Harvey Lee Price Papers was completed in 2004.
Harvey Lee Price (1874-1951) was associated with Virginia Polytechnic Institute throughout his professional career, first as a student (B.S. 1898, M.S. 1900), followed by his extensive tenure as a faculty member in the Horticulture department (1900-1950). During those years, Price was an administrator from 1908 through 1920 and Dean of the School of Agriculture from 1920 through 1945. Price Hall, originally constructed in 1907 as Agricultural Hall, was renamed in his honor in 1949.
A descendant of early Montgomery County settlers, Harvey Lee Price had a strong avocational interest in genealogy and local history. His Outlines of Montgomery County Families has long been a valuable source for genealogists and historians. Hardback copies of the four volumes are available in the Rare Book Collection.
The Harvey Lee Price Papers contain notes and outlines of various Montgomery County families which Price used to write his four volume series Outlines of Montgomery County Families. Materials consist of Price's own background research, notes, transcribed historical documents, and correspondence with numerous families with historical connections to Montgomery County. There are also comprehensive notes pertaining to the Price family genealogy in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. Additionally, Price's diplomas from VPI are included.
This collection is arranged by subject into the following series:
Typescript carbon copy with manuscript annotations. Contains information on the Barger, Broce, Cromer, Eskridge, Evans, Grissom, Harmon, Hawley, Henderson, Hornbarger, Keister, Kinzer, and Kipp families.
Typescript carbon copy with manuscript annotations. Contains information on Prices Fork, Price family.
Typescript carbon copy with manuscript annotations. Contains information on Long, Linkous, Lucas, Oliver, Parrish, Pate, Pepper, Plunkett, Ridpath, Shell, Slusher, Surface, Wall, and Walters families.
Typescript carbon copy with manuscript annotations. Contains information on Allen, Altizer, Argarbrite, Barnett (Lyon), Bingham, Black, Bland, Brown, Burke, Calloway, Camper, Cook, Craig, Crockett, Croy, Crumpacker, Davis, Effinger, Evans, Hale, Hawkins, Haven, Hodge, Kanode, Kirby, Lybrook, Olinger, Pasco, Pepper, Perfater, Phlieger, Porterfield, Ribble, Robertson (Robinson), Shaffer, Sibold, Snidow (Snider), and Williams families.
Information includes photocopied newspaper articles and typescript articles and publications.