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Eli Kirk Price II (1860-1933) lawyer and "the foremost civic and cultural leader in early 20th century Philadelphia" through service on the boards of the University of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, the American Philosophical Society, the Preston Retreat, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Fairmount Park commission, the city Parks Association and The Woodlands Cemetery Company; the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Parkway created under his direction.
Prominent Philadelphia lawyer, called "the foremost civic and cultural leader in early twentieth-century Philadelphia". He was the commissioner of Fairmount Park during the planning and development of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, of which he was one of the principal planners. Later, he was instrumental in obtaining funding for the new Philadelphia Museum of Art building. He served as president of the museum from 1926 to 1933.
He was the grandson of Eli Kirk Price. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Pennsylvania respectively in 1881 and 1883, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1883.
Price was responsible for the purchase and installation of the sculpture of Billy the goat in Rittenhouse Square. He died in 1933 of a heart attack. The Price Fountain in Philadelphia's Eakins Oval is dedicated to his memory.
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