Richard Prichard was a medical student at McGill University from 1913 until his death on the Lusitania in 1915. Following his father’s early death in 1904, Preston traveled to Canada in order to find employment and raise money for his family. Over the following decade, he worked as a farmer, lumberjack and a property dealer, before enrolling at McGill University to study medicine. At the age of 29, Preston embarked as a second class passenger on board the Cunard liner RMS Lusitania, bound from New York for Liverpool (The Papers of Mrs. G. S. Prichard, Imperial War Museum, Dept. of documents. Reference code GB621 IWM Documents).
Bruce Price (1845-1903) was born in Cumberland, MD, and received his architectural training at the College of New Jersey. He opened his first practice in Baltimore and later moved to New York. He designed houses in the Shingle style, which was so influential in American domestic architecture, notably in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Price's later work is more varied and not restricted to domestic designs. He received many important commissions for large-scale commercial structures, among them a twenty-storey building for the American Surety Company in New York (1894-1896).
Bruce Price (1845-1903) est né à Cumberland (Maryland) et a reçu sa formation en architecture au Collège du New Jersey. Il a ouvert son premier cabinet à Baltimore et s'est ensuite installé à New York. Il a dessiné des maisons dans le style Shingle, qui a tant marqué l'architecture résidentielle américaine et en particulier les oeuvres de Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). Les oeuvres ultérieures de Price sont plus variées et ne se limitent pas au seul domaine résidentiel. On lui a commandé plusieurs grandes structures commerciales et notamment un immeuble de vingt étages pour l'American Surety Company de New York (1894-1896).
Anna May Price was a pioneering librarian who served as the Superintendent of the Library Extension Division of the Illinois State Library from 1913 until her retirement in 1934. Her legacy within the state's library system includes:
Library Expansion: She was instrumental in advocating for the establishment of public and county libraries across Illinois, transforming rural access to books.
Leadership: She served as the President of the Illinois Library Association (ILA) in 1934 and was a key figure in regional library education and conferences.
State Recognition: Her contributions are honoured in the Illinois State Library Heritage Project, which chronicles her foundational work in making library services universally available statewide.
