Eli Kirk Price
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Eli Kirk Price (July 20, 1797 – 14 November 1884) was a Philadelphia lawyer, a commissioner of Fairmount Park from the time of its founding, and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
In 1853 he was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate in Harrisburg as an independent to secure the consolidation of the city and county of Philadelphia into one metropolitan unit. The act passed in February 1854 and made Philadelphia the largest territorial city in the U.S.
Price is memorialized by a fountain in Fairmount Park, in Eakins Oval adjacent to the Washington Monument.
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