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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, 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, 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.