Frank Pierpont Price (1900-1918)

Frank Pierpont Price was born in Oakmont on Dec. 23, 1900, the youngest child of Charles Bohlen Price and Florence Macrum Price. His six siblings include Philip Wallis Price, Benjamin Marsden Price, Eleanor Foster Price Thomas, Florence Louise Price Barton, Alfred Kellogg Price, and Gertrude Macrum Price. In July 1901, Price was baptized at Oakmont’s St. Thomas Memorial Episcopal Church.
The father, Charles Price, was employed in the railroad industry, and was prosperous enough to retire in 1902. He spent the next three years traveling through Europe. After his return he entered politics. He was appointed to the position of County Commissioner and later served on the Allegheny Board of Assessments. He then took a position in the insurance industry.
The family eventually settled in at a big home at 5817 Callowhill Road, Pittsburgh.
After graduating from Peabody, Price entered Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) and almost immediately became a private in Company E of the Student Army Training Corps. But as happened to so many Pittsburgh student-soldiers, the worldwide influenza epidemic wasted no time in sweeping through their ranks.
Price was sent to St. Francis Hospital on October 11, 1918 with a serious case of the flu which soon turned to lobar pneumonia. At the time, his brother Philip was serving in France, while Benjamin was stationed in Texas.
Frank Pierpont Price passed away on Oct. 20, 1918, and is buried at Allegheny Cemetery.