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married, Aug. 8, 18S9, Minna liale Angier of Chicago. In February. 1890. lie entered upon newspaper work, and later became a member of the (literary) critical staff of the principal Chicago periodicals ; literary adviser to A, C. McClurg & Co., and to the Fleming H. Revell company of Chicago, and lecturer on contem- poraneous verse. He is the author of : Under the Stars, and Other Soiigs of the Sea (with Bar- rett Eastman, 1898); Heroic Deeds (189S); Flying Sands (1898); Ballads of Valor and Victory (with Clinton Scollard, 1901), and .47ima/s(1901). He is the editor of : Poems of Francis Brooks, with Prefatory Memoir (1898); Poems of Rudy ard Kipling, with Introductory Essay (1899); Hie Basia of Joannes Secundus, with Appreciation (1901); TJie Younger Poets of the Old World (1902), and TJie Younger Poets of the Neiv World (190"2). He wrote and read the Memorial Ode for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Racine college, which was celebrated, June 10, 190J, at R;icine, Wis.

RICE, William North, educator, was born in Marblehead, Mass., Nov. 21, 1845 ; son of William and Caroline Laura (North) Rice, and grandson of William and Jerusha (Warriner) Rice, and of William and Laura (Hyde) North. He was graduated from Wesleyan university, Middle- town, Conn., A.B., 18G5, and from the Sheffield Scientific school, Yale universit}-, Ph.D., 18G7. He was professor of geologj' and natural history at Wesleyan university, 1867-84 ; traveled abroad and studied at the University of Berlin, 18G7-68 ; was librarian of Wesleyan, 1868-69, and appoint- ed professor of geology in 1884. He joined the New York East conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1869 ; was assistant to the U.S. fish commission at Portland, Maine, and at Noank, Conn., 1873-74; engaged in geological and zoological investigation in Bermuda, 1876- 77, and was assistant geologist of the U.S. Geo- logical survey, 1891-93. He was married, April 12, 1870. to Elizabeth Wing, daughter of Loranus and Elizabeth Ann (Fuller) Crowell of Lynn, Mass. He was elected a member of the Con- necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences ; a fellow of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, and of the Geological Society of America ; was one of the original members of the American Society of Naturalists, and in 1891 was its president. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Syracuse university in 1886. He was associate editor of the Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1873) ; editor of Dana's "Revised Text Book of Geology" (1897) ; and is the author of : Geology of Bermuda (1884) ; Science Teaching in the Schools (1S«9, 2d ed., 1894); Twenty-five Years of Scientific Progress and other Essays (1894).,

and many articles on geological, biological, edu- cational and religious subjects in scientific and religious periodicals.

RICE, William Whitney, representative, was born at Deerfield, Mass., March 7, 1826; son of Benjamin and Lucy (Whitney) Rice; grandson of Caleb and Sally (Abbott) Rice and of Pliine- has and Bethiah (Barrett) Whitney, and a descendant of John Whitney, who came to America from England in 1635, and settled in Watertown, Mass., and of Edmund Rice, 1638, who .settled in Sudbury, Mass. He was educated at Gorham academy, Maine, and graduated from Bowdoin college in 1846. He was preceptor at the Leicester academy, Mass., 1847-51 ; studied law in Worcester, Mass., with Emory Wasliburn and George F. Hoar ; was admitted to the bar in 1854, and began practice in Worcester. He was judge of insolvency for the county of Worcester in 1858 ; mayor of the city in 1860 ; district-at- torney for the middle district of Massachusetts, 1869-74. and a member of the state legislature in 1875. He was elected a Rej^ublican representa- tive from Massachusetts to the 45th congress, as successor to George F. Hoar, and re-elected to the 46th-49th congresses, serving, 1877-87. He then resumed the practice of law in Worcester, Mass. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin college in 1886. He was married, Nov. 21, 1855, to Cornelia A. Moen, daughter of Augustus R. and Sophie A. Moen. She died in Worcester, Mass., June 16, 1802. He was married secondly, Sept. 28, 1875, to Alice Miller, daughter of Henry W. and Nancy (Merrick) Miller of Wor- cester, Mass. She died in Washington, D.C.. in March, 1900, at the home of her sister, Mrs. George F. Hoar. William Wliitney Rice died in Worcester, Mass., March 1, 1896.

RICH, Charles, representative, was born in Warwick, Mass., Sept. 13, 1771 ; son of Thomas Rich, who removed to Shoreham, Vt., with his family, and erected saw and grist mills and cleared a farm. Charles enjoyed few school ad- vantages, but was a studious reader of all the books procurable in his neighborhood. He was married in 1791 to a daughter of Nicholas Wells. He was a Democratic representative from Shore- ham in the Vermont legislature for eleven con- secutive terms ; county judge six years, and a representative in the 13th congress. 1813-15. and in the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th congresses, 1817- 24. Upon his death in 1824, Henry Olin (q.v.) completed his term in the ISth congress. He died in Shoreham, Vt., Oct. 15, 1824.

RICH, Isaac, philanthropist, was born at Well- fleet, Mass., Oct. 24, 1801 ; son of Robert and Eunice (Harding) Rich, and grandson of Reuben and Hannah (Gross) Rich. Though born in hum- ble circumstances he was of a distinguished