Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Price, John Charles

PRICE, John Charles, educator, b. in Elizabeth City, N. C., 10 Feb., 1854. He is of African descent, and his father was a slave. He was graduated at Lincoln university, Chester county, Pa., in 1879 and at its theological department in 1881, and entered the ministry of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church. In 1882 he became president of Livingstone college, N. C. Lincoln university gave him the degree of D. D. in 1887. Dr. Price was a delegate to the Methodist œcumenical council in London in 1881, and in 1888 President Cleveland appointed him minister to Liberia, but he declined, continuing his college duties.