Gwilym A. Price
Gwilym Alexander Price (June 20, 1895, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania – June 1, 1985, Kennedy Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania) was a lawyer, Pennsylvania state legislator, banker, and industrialist. Biography Because of the death of his father, who was a tin mill worker, Gwylim A. Price dropped out of high school to support his widowed mother. He took a secretarial course and worked full-time for a mortgage company. After studying nights and weekends, he entered the University of Pittsburgh Law School. After graduating in 1917 (as the youngest member of the class), he became a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and during WW I served in France, where he was promoted to captain. He served a two-year term (1923–1924) as a state representative in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and remained active for many years in Republican politics. Price became in 1920 an assistant trust officer at People's First National Bank and Trust Company in Pittsburgh and became in 1940 its president. He resigned in 1943 to become a vice president at Westinghouse Service Corporation, which in 1945 was renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Price was promoted to executive vice president in 1945, chief-executive-officer (CEO) and president in 1946, and board chair in