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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-