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Rhodes, Samuel

congressman. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress from 1774 to 1775.

Rhodes, William Henry

poet, was born July 16, 1822, in Bertie county, N. C. He was the author of The Indian Gallows, and Other Poems; and of volume called Caxton's Book. He died in 1852. a

Ribble, William

farmer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 10, 1819, in Montgomery county, Va. In 1843 he was elected justice of the peace, and some time afterward was appointed major of the Indiana state militia. He was elected to the Indiana legislature.

Rice, Allen Thorndike

journalist, author, was born June 1, 1853, in Boston, Mass. He organized in 1879 and subsequently directed what is popularly known as the Charnay expedition, which was despatched under the joint auspices of the United States and France, to investigate systematically the remains of ancient civilization in Central America and Mexico. He edited Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln; and contributed to Ancient Cities of the New World. He died May 16, 1889, in New York city.

Rice, Alonzo E

lawyer, legislator, was born May 6, 1857, in Fayette county, Ill. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and attended the Central university of Pella, Iowa. In 1884 he was a surveyor in Holt county, Neb.; and during 1885-86 he served as a representative in the lower house of the Nebraska legislature. He is a successful lawyer of Centralia, Wash.; was city attorney in 1892; and during 1893-94 was prosecuting attorney for Lewis county.

Rice, Americus Vespucius

soldier, banker, congressman, was born Nov. 18, 1835, in Perryville, Ohio. He served in the war for the union from 1861 to 1865 entering as a private and coming out as a brigadier-general. In 1868 he became manager of a banking house in Ottawa, Ohio; and in 1874 was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfifth congress.

Rice, Benjamin Franklin

soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born May 26, 1828, in East Otto, N. Y.

He was elected to the Kentucky state legislature in 1865; and was a presidential elector in 1856. After the war he settled in Little Rock, Ark., and organized the republican party in that state. In 1868 he was elected a senator in congress from Arkansas, for the term ending in 1873.

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, 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.