Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Rice, James 1830 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

CAPT. JAMES RICE.

    The town of Pueblo was yet, as it were, in its infancy when Capt. Rice came
there in 1868. He built the first brick storehouse in the place, and was himself
the first Mayor of the town. The Captain was born in the State of Vermont, at
Hartford, December 29, 1830. After his schooldays, he learned the trade of a
machinist, subsequently working at his trade at various places in Vermont for
several years. He was married in Greensboro, Vt., July 9, 1861, to Miss Carrie
E. Stevens. He served through the late war; first as a musician in the Fifth
Vermont Volunteers, and latterly as a Captain in the Eleventh Vermont. After the
close of the war, he located in business at Providence, R. L, where he lived
until coming West in 1868. In April of that year he settled at Pueblo, where he
opened a tobacco store. In 1870, he began the business he is now engaged
in-dealing in books and stationery. He then erected the building which he now
occupies, and which also contains the post office. Capt. Rice assisted in
organizing the town of Pueblo. He was one of the first Trustees, and was Mayor
of the town during the first three terms of that office. He was a member of the
Legislative Council, representing the counties of El Paso and Pueblo in 1875-76.
In November, 1880, he was elected Regent of the State University of Colorado,
which office he now holds. Capt. Rice has ever been a public spirited man; and
he has labored much for the general interests of Pueblo, for which he receives
and well deserves the esteem of his fellow-citizens.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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