Rice, David Hall – Rice, Thomas
Rice, David Hall
lawyer, author, was born in 1841 in Massachusetts. He is a lawyer of Boston, living in Brookline, Mass.; and the author of Protective Philosophy; and Digest of Decisions of Commissioner of Patents, 1869-80.
Rice, Edmund
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 14, 1819, in Waitsfield, Vt. He moved to St.
Paul in 1849, and practiced law till 1856.
He was president of the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad company from 1857 till 1863; St. Paul and Pacific railroad 1863 till 1872, and trustee till 1879; and president St. Paul and Chicago 1863 till 1877. He was a member of the territorial legislature 1851; and was state senator 1864- 66, 1874-76. He was a member of the state house of representatives 1867, 1872, 1877, and 1878; was mayor of St. Paul 1881-83; and re-elected in 1885. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat..
Rice, Edward Y
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 8, 1820, in Logan county, Ky. In 1847 he was elected county recorder of Montgomery county, Ill.; was a member of the legislature in 1849; and was elected judge of Montgomery county, and served two years. He was appointed master in chancery from 1853 until 1857, when he was elected judge of the eighteenth circuit of Illinois; and was re-elected in 1861, and in 1867. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Illinois in 1869; and was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Rice, Edwin Wilbur
clergyman, editor, author, was born July 24, 1831, near Gloversville, N. Y. He received a thorough education at the Kingsboro academy and the academy of Little Falls, N. Y. He studied theology at the Union "Theological seminary of New York city, and was ordained in 1860 at La Crosse, Wis., where he had previously been engaged in educational work. He has been the editor-in-chief of the American Sunday School union since 1878. He had served as a missionary of the union in the northwest, as superintendent of an important district, and as assistant secretary of missionary work. He knew by personal observation what teachers and pupils needed, and few men could have met the need so ably. The Scholars' Handbook; the Lesson Leaves; and the first Sunday School Quarterly ever issued, besides fifteen exhaustive works of larger scope, two of which we have already mentioned, are evidences of his devotion and capacity in service.
Rice, Frank
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 15, 1845, in Seneca, N. Y. He is a successful lawyer of Canandaigua, N. Y.; has been a member of the New York state assembly; county judge; and secretary of state of the state of New York.
Rice, Frank P
capitalist, state senator, was born Oct. 28, 1838, in Claremont, N. H. In 1882 he was a member of the Georgia state senate; and was a member of the state legislature for several terms.
Rice, Frank S
lawyer, author, was born Feb. 3, 1850, in Elmira, N. Y. He is the author of a book entitled Civil and Criminal Evidence; and Annotation Code of Civil Procedure.
Rice, George Edward
poet, was born July 10, 1822, in Boston, Mass. He was a verse-writer of Boston; and the author of Ephemeral; Nugamenta; and A New Play in an Old Garb, a fanciful adaptation of Hamlet. He died Aug. 10, 1861, in Roxbury, Mass.
Rice, Harvey
lawyer, author, poet, was born in June, 1800, in Conway Massell, Mass. He was a prominent lawyer of Cleveland; and the author of Mount Vernon, and Other Poems; Select Poems; Nature and Culture; Pioneers of the Western Reserve; Sketches of Western Life; and The Founder of the City of Cleveland.
Besides the publication of these works, he contributed valuable articles and poems to the leading newspapers and magazines of the United States. He died in 1891 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Rice, Henry Mower
surveyor, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 29, 1816, in Waitsfield, Vt. In 1853 he was elected a delegate to congress from Minnesota; and was re-elected in 1855. In 1857 he was elected a senator in congress from Minnesota for the term of six years.
Rice, Isaac Leopold
lawyer, author, was born in 1850 in Bavaria. He is a lawyer of New York city who has written What Is Music?
Rice, James Clay
soldier, was born Dec. 27, 1829, in Worthington, Mass. He served through the civil war, attaining for gallant and meritorious services the rank of brigadier-general. He died May 11, 1864, in Spottsylvania, Va.
Rice, James Montgomery
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born March 8, 1842, in Monmouth, Ill. In 1887 he settled in Peoria, Ill., where he has since been engaged in the practice of law.
He served one term in the Illinois state legislature during 1871-72. He is the author of a Range Manual, now adopted and used in five states for the national guards as an authority; and also Small Arms Practice for the National Guards. He is the inventor and patentee of a practical moving target, used with great success by both the regular troops and the national guards.
Rice, John Andrew
clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 25, 1867, in Colleton county, S. C. This eminent methodist episcopal clergyman was elected president of the Columbia Female college, South Carolina, in 1894.
Rice, John B
soldier, physician, surgeon, congressman, was born at Fremont, Ohio. He adopted the medical profession; served in the union army as assistant surgeon, surgeon, and surgeon-in-chief of a division during the war of the rebellion; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-seventh congress as a republican.
Rice, John B
librarian, congressman, was born in 1809 in Easton, Md. He was elected mayor of Chicago in 1865; and reelected in 1867. He was elected to the forty-third congress; and was appointed librarian of the house of representatives.
He died Dec. 17, 1874, in Norfolk, Va.
Rice, John H
merchant, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1816, in Mount Vernon, Ky. In 1852 he was elected a state attorney for three years; was reelected, and held the office until he was chosen a representative from Maine to the thirty-seventh congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses.
Rice, John Holt
educator, author, was born Nov. 23, 1777, in New London, Va. In 1822 he filled the chair of theology in Hampden-Sidney college, which position he filled until his death. He was the author of a work entitled Historical and Philosophical Considerations on Religion.
He died Sept. 3, 1831.
Rice, John M
state legislator, congressman, was born in Floyd county, Ky. He served in the legislature of Kentucky in 1859 and 1867; and was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-first congress, and was re-elected to the fortysecond congress as a democrat.
Rice, Luther
clergyman, missionary, philanthropist, was born March 25, 1783, in Northborough, Mass. He attained prominence as an eminent clergyman of the congregational church; was a missionary in India; and it was mainly through his influence and efforts that the Columbian university of Washington, D. C., was established. He died Sept. 25, 1836, in Edgefield, S. C.
Rice, Martin Henry
clergyman, journalist, was born Oct. 4, 1829, in Jamaica, Vt. He always took a deep interest in Masonry, and has lectured extensively on that subject. He has been grand master; grand high priest and illustrious grand master of Masons in Indiana. He is best known as the editor of the Masonic Advocate, on which for a quarter of a century his time and talents, his pen and brain, have been actively employed in spreading true Masonic light and knowledge to his uninformed brethren.
Rice, Nathan Lewis
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 29, 1807, in Garrard county, Ky. He was a presbyterian clergyman of note who held pastorates in St. Louis, Cincinnati and New York city, and was an active controversialist. He was the author of Romanism the Enemy of Free Institutions; The Signs of the Times; Baptism; The Pulpit; and Discourses.
He died June 11, 1877, in Chatham, Ky.
Rice, Rosella
author, was born Aug. 11, 1827, in Perrysville, Ohio. She published a novel entitled Mabel, or Heart Histories. In 1871-72 she contributed, under the pen-name of Pipsissiway Potts, a serial entitled Other People's Windows, to Timothy S. Arthur's Home Magazine.
Rice, Samuel Allen
soldier, lawyer, was born Jan. 27, 1828, in Penn Yan, N. Y. In 1856 he was chosen attorneygeneral of Iowa, and in 1858 he was continued in that office for a second term. He entered the national army as colonel of the thirty-third Iowa volunteers, his commission dating from Aug. 10, 1862.
For bravery at Helena, Ark., he was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. He died July 6, 1864, in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Rice, Theron M
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1829, in Mecca, Ohio. In 1858 he moved to Missouri; served in the union army during the war of the rebellion, rising to the rank of colonel. At the close of the war he resumed the practice of law at Tipton, Mo.; and was elected circuit judge in 1868, and served six years. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-seventh congress.
Rice, Thomas
lawyer, congressman.
He was a representative in the state legislature in 1813; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1815 to 1819. He died in 1854.