23 Wright Avenue – J. S. Brice House

City Directories and History:  1908 – J. Steele Brice (Claudia M.) atty at Law, VP The Loan and Savings Co.,

*** Historically, this was house #34 Wright Avenue. Note the porches and decorative brackets were removed. Originally the J. S. Brice home.

Mr. Brice lived here in 1912. Note the original porches have been removed from this old home.

The Yorkville Enquirer of Nov. 6, 1906 contained an ad for J.S. Brice, attorney, with office opposite the Courthouse.

The RH Record reported on Aug. 26, 1907 – “The printing outfit including presses and type of the late Yorkville New Era newspaper was sold at auction on Saturday.  The buyer was J.S. Brice, Esq. of York for a price of $150.”

Brice, John Steele, lawyer; born Chester district (now county) in 1861 ; educated in Erskine College, from which he graduated in 1883; read law in office of late Maj. Jas. F. Hart of Yorkville; admitted to the bar in 1889, and began practice at Yorkville; presidential elector from South Carolina in 1892; member of South Carolina Constitutional Convention, 1895 ; member South Carolina Senate 1890-1898; for several years has been attorney for County Commissioners of York County. Presbyterian. Married Claude Moore. Address, York, S. C. Courtesy of Who’s Who in S.C. – 1921

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