RICE
RICE
theology and was pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Hanover, Va., 1763-68, and pastor of
congregations in Bedford county, Va., 1768-83.
He removed to Kentucky in Octol)er, 1783, and
organized the first religious congregation in Mer-
cer county, Kj'., and the first school. He organ-
ized and was chairman of the conference held
in 1785 for the purpose of instituting a regular
organization of the Presbyterian cliurch in the
new territory; was founder of Transylvania
academy, and a member of the state ct)nstitu-
tional convention in 1792. He was married to
Mary, daugliter of the Rev. Samuel Blair. He is
the author of: Essay on Baj^tism (1789); Lecture
on Divine Decrees (1791); Shivery Inconsistent
with Justice and Policy (1792); An Epistle to
the Citizens of Kentucky Professing Christianity
(1805); .4 Second Epistle (1808), and A Kentucky
Protest Against Slavery (1812). He died in Green
county, Ky., June 18. 181G.
RICE, Edwin Wilbur, editor, was born in Kingsborongh, N.Y., July 24, 1831; son of Eben- ezer and Eliza Ann (Port) .Rice; grandson of Ebenezer and Martha (Tliroop) Rice, and a de- scendant of the Rices (Royces) of Massachusetts Bay colony. He was graduated at Union college, A.B., 1854, A.M., 1857; studied law, 1854r-55, and attended Union Theological seminary in New York city, 1855-57. He was a student missionary of the American Sunday-school union, 1853, and .subsequently of the American Tract society; taught school in Brooklyn, N.Y.. 1857-58, mean- while declining the superin tendency of colport- age for the upper Mississippi valley; was a Sunday-school missionary at La Crosse, Wis., 1859-00; ordained by the Presbyterian and Con- gregational convention of Wisconsin, Sept. 5, 1860, and was engaged in Sunday-school mission work in St. Louis, Mo., and La Crosse, Wis., 18G1- 64, and as superintendent of the American Sun- day-school union at Milwaukee, Wis., 1864-70. He was assistant secretary of missions and assis- tant editor of the periodicals of the American Sunday School union at Philadelphia, Pa., 1871- 77; editor of its periodicals, 1877-79, and of all its periodicals and publications from 1879, and chairman of its executive committee from 1880, in which capacity lie accomplislied the liquida- tion of the society's debt, amounting to about $2.50.000. He was married, Jan. 23, 1861, to Margaret E., daughter of Richard and Eliza (Williams) Williams of Potter, N.Y.; and sec- ondly, Aug. 13. 1868, to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Alfred and Hannah Judd (Belden) Gardner of New Britain, Conn. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Union college in 1884, and on May 25, 1899, at the seventy-fifth anniversary of the American Sunday-school union, was pre- sented with a silver loving cup in recognition of
his forty years of service. He edited the Sunday
School World and the Youths' World from 1871:
a series of lesson papers from 1872; prepared the
Scholar's Handbooks on the International Lessons
(1873-89); edited the Union Companion and
Quarterly from 1875, Kennedy's " Four Gospels"
(1881), and Paxton Hood's " Great Revival of the
Eighteenth Century" (1882). He is the author of
geographical and topographical articles in Philip
Schaff's "Bible Dictionary" (1880); Pictorial
Comirlentaries on Mark (1881); Historical Sketch
of Sunday Schools (1886); Peojile's Commentary on
Matthew (1887; rev. ed., 1897); People's Lesson
Book on Matthew (1888); Stories of Great Painters
(1888); People's Commentary on Luke (1889);
People's Commentary on John (1891); Our Sixty-
six Sacred Books (1891); People's Dictionary of
the Bible (1893); People's Commentary on Acts
(1896); Handy Helps for Busy Workers (1899);
TJie Heavenly City (1899); History of Interna-
tional Lessons for Thirty-three Years (1902),
and a History of the American Sunday School
Union .
RICE, Elliott Warren, soldier, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Nov, 16, 1835. His parents re- moved to Martinsville, Ohio, and he attended the Ohio university; was admitted to the bar in 1856, and practised in Oskaloosa, Iowa, where his brother, Samuel Allen Rice (q.v.), had located. He enlisted in the 7th Iowa volunteers, Col. J. G. Lauman, as a private in 1861, participating in the battle of Belmont, J\Io., Nov. 7, and was rapidly promoted through the various ranks to colonel, taking part at Shiloh, Corinth, Oct. 3-4, 1862, and in all the important battles of the southwest, commanding his regiment in the 1st brigade, 2d division, Army of West Tennessee. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, June 20,
1864, commanded the 1st brigade and for a time the 2d division, 16th Army corps, in the Atlanta campaign, and the 1st brigade, Cor.se's 4th divi- sion, Logan's 15th corps, in Slierman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13,
1865, was mustered out of the service, Aug. 24, 1865, and resumed the practice of law in Oska- loosa, subsequently removing to Sioux City, Iowa, whore he dicnl, June 22, 1887.
RICE, Harvey, educationist, was born in Con- way, Mass., June 11, 1800. His father was a farmer, and in 1817 the son left tiie farm with his parents' permission and devoted his earnings to the preparation for college. He was graduated from AVilliams college in 1824. and removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he re-opened St. Clair academy as a classical school. He was admitted to the bar in 1826, and practised law in Cleve- land, 1826-28, as a partner with his preceptor, Reuben Wood. In 1828 he purchased the Inde-
