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commenced in 1820, a charter was procured from congress, Feb. 9, 1821, and the building was com- pleted in 1822. Mr. Rice was a member of the organized board of corporators ; treasurer of the college, 1821-26, and a member of the board of trustees, 1821-27. He declined the presidency of Transylvania university, Lexington. Ky., and a similar call to Georgetown college, Ky. The degree A.M. was given him by Brown university in 1814. He was unmarried. He died at the house of his friend. Dr. Mays, while on a collect- ing tour through the South, and a marble slab marks his grave in Point Pleasant churchyard, Edgefield district, S.C. He died, Sept. 25. 1836.

RICE, Nathan Lewis, clergyman, was born in Garrard county, Ky, Dec. 29, 1807 ; son of Gabriel and Phebe (Garrett) Rice. He worked on his father's farm ; taught school to prepare for col- lege ; matriculated at Centre college, Ky., 1825, but did not graduate ; taught Latin in the pre- paratory department of Centre college, 1825-27, and was licensed to preach in 1828 by the Tran- sylvania presbytery. He was a student in the Princeton Theological seminary, 1829-31 ; was ordained by the presbytery of Louisville, Ky., June 8, 1833, and was pastor at Bardstown, Ky., and principal of a seminary for girls, 1833-41, at the same time editing the Western Protestant. He was stated supply at Woodford and Paris, Ky., 1841-44 ; pastor of the Central church, Cincinnati, Ohio, and professor in the Theological seminary, 1845-53 ; pastor of the Second church, St. Louis, Mo., 1853-58, meantime editing the St. Louis Pi-esbyterian and serving as moderator of the gen- eral assembly held at Nashville in 1855. He was pastor of the North church, Chicago, III., 1858-61, and professor of didactic theology at the Chicago Theological seminary, 1859-61 ; pastor of the Fifth Avenue church. New York city, 1861-67 ; retired to a farm near New Brunswick, N. J., 1867-68 ; was president of Westminster college, Fulton, Mo., 1869-74, and professor of didactic and polem- ic theology at the Danville Theological semin- ary, Ky., 1874-77. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Jefferson college in 1844. He is the author of : Baptism : Universal Salva- tion (ISi^); Slavery (184:5); Romanism the Enemy of Free Institutions and of Christianity (1851); The Signs of the Times (1855); Baptism: The Design, Mode and Subjects (1855); Our Country and the Church (1861) ; Preach the Word : a Discourse (1862); The Pdpit, its Relation to Our National Crisis (1862), and Discourses (1862). He died in Chatham, Ky., June 11, 1877.

RICE, Samuel Allen, soldier, was born in Penn Yan, N.Y., Jan. 27, 1828. His parents re- moved first to Pittsburg, Pa., and thence to Martinville, Ohio. He was a student in the Ohio university, and graduated at Union college, New

York, in 1849. He was admitted to the bar in 1852, and settled in practice at Oskaloosa, Iowa, becoming attorney for Mahaska county in 1858. He was attorney-general of Iowa for two terms, 1856-60, and entered the Federal army as colonel of the 33d Iowa volunteers, Aug. 10, 1862. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, Aug. 4, 1863, for bravery at Helena, Ark., and served in the department of Arkansas in com- mand of the 1st brigade, 3d division, army of Gen. Frederick Steele, during the campaigns of 1863-64, until wounded at Jenkins's Ferry, Ark., April 30, 1864. He died at Oskaloosa, July 6, 1864.

RICE, Samuel Farrow, jurist, was born in Union district, S.C, June 2, 1816 ; son of Judge William and (Herndon) Rice. He was grad- uated at South Corolina college, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1838, settling in the same year in Talladega, Ala., where he purchased and edited (1838-44) a newspaper. He repre- sented Talladega in the legislature, 1840 and 1841, and was made state printer in 1841. He was unsuccessful candidate for representative in the 29th congress in 1844 and for the 30th congress in 1846, was an elector on the Taylor and Fillmore ticket in 1849 and was an unsuccessful candidate for representative in the 51st congress in 1850. In 1852 he removed to Montgomery, Ala.; was associate justice of the supreme court, 1854-55 and chief-justice, 18.55-58. He was a representa- tive in the state legislature in 1859, and a state senator, 1861-65. He was married to the daughter of Maj. P. E. Pearson. He died in Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 3, 1890.

RICE, Wallace (de Groot Cecil), author, editor and critic, was born in Hamilton, Canada, Nov. 10, 1859 ; son of John Asaph and Margaret Van Slycke (Culver) Rice ; grandson of Anson and Lucy (Sherman) Rice, and of Lewis Halsey and Ann Eliza (Sebriiig) Culver ; great-grand- nephew of the Rev. Luther Rice (q.v.); great- grandson of Isaac Sherman, Marlborough (Mass.) Minute Men ; great-^-grandson of Amos Rice, captain in the 6th Worcester County (Mass.) volunteers ; of Thomas Sebring, captain in the New Jersey line, and of Abraham Wood, clerk of the Northborough (Mass.) Minute Men, of the Revolutionary armies ; and a descendant of Deacon Edmund Rice andTamazin, his wife, who came from Berkhampstead, Herts, in 1638, and settled in Sudbury, Mass. , to become one of the first settlers of Marlborough, Mass., in 1656. His parents were Americans temporarily residing in Canada at the time of his birth, removing with him to Chicago, lil., in 1861. He attended the grammar school of Racine college, and entered Harvard with the class of 1883, but was not graduated. He was admitted to the Chicago bar in November, 1884, and began practice." He