Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Rice, Philip L. June 22, 1886 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

PHILIP L. RICE, Attorney. Philip L. Rice, the youngest son of the late William 
Hyde Rice, was born at Lihue, Kauai, July 22, 1886. He spent his childhood and 
early youth in Lihue and on his father’s cattle ranch. He received his primary 
education in private and public schools in the Islands and his high school 
education at Anderson Academy, Irvington, Calif. He took a business course at 
Heald’s Business college in San Francisco and then returned to the Islands and 
worked for the Koloa Sugar Co., Koloa, Kauai.
  After working for nearly three years on the plantation, Mr. Rice was 
appointed clerk of the Circuit Court, Fifth Circuit, at Lihue. While clerk of 
the Circuit Court he became interested in and studied law and in 1913 was 
licensed to practise as an attorney in the district courts. He then resigned 
as clerk, opened an office at Lihue and, in addition to practising as an 
attorney in the district courts, was general agent and Kauai representative 
for several insurance companies. Mr. Rice closed his office in Lihue in May, 
1914, and with Mrs. Rice (Nee Flora Benton, to whom he was married at Coronado 
in 1911) moved to Chicago, where he entered the Law School of the University 
of Chicago as a special student, and by working continuously, and through 
three summers, completed a three-year course in the latter part of 1916. In 
1916 he returned to the Islands, was admitted to practise in the Supreme Court 
and all courts of the Territory, and opened a law office at Lihue, where he 
still practises.
  During the World War he was in active service. He attended the First 
Officers’ Training Camp at Schofield Barracks in 1917, was commissioned a 
first lieutenant of infantry and attached to the 25th Infantry. During a 
portion of 1918 he was aide to Brigadier General A. P. Blockson, then 
commanding the Hawaiian Department, and upon his promotion to the rank of 
captain was stationed at Hawaiian Department Headquarters for a short time and 
was then transferred to the Sixteenth Division Camp Kearny, Calif, where he 
was assigned to the command of a company of the 47th Machine Gun Battalion, 
with which he served until honorably discharged in December, 1918.
  Mr. Rice is a past commander of Kauai Post No. 2, American Legion; a past 
commander of the Hawaiian Department of the American Legion, and a member of 
the Phi Delta Phi law fraternity, Native Sons of Hawaii, Kauai Chamber of 
Commerce, Kauai Polo Club, Wailua Golf Club, Kauai Athletic Club, Oahu Country 
Club, and the University Club of Honolulu.
  He is a director and secretary of Wm. Hyde Rice, Ltd.; Lihue Ice and 
Electric Power Co., Ltd.; Lihue Soda Co., Ltd.; Garden Island Motors, Ltd., 
and W. H. Scott & Co., Ltd. He was Republican candidate for delegate to 
Congress in 1924.

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