Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Rice, William M. 1812 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   William M. Rice, merchant and farmer, Newtown, was born in Henry county,
Kentucky, in 1812. He was the eldest son of Jonathan and Rebecca (Reynolds)
Rice, the eldest of twenty children: thirteen brothers and half-brothers, and
seven sisters and half-sisters. His minority was passed at work in his father's
blacksmith and gunsmith shop. From that time until the present he has been
merchandising and farming. In 1829, accompanied by his parents, he removed to
Montgomery county, arriving there September 10, and settling near Waveland. In
1837 Mr. Rice came to Coal creek in this township, and made him a homestead one
mile south of Newtown, which he yet owns. In 1855 his father went to Kankakee
county, Illinois, and lived four miles east of Kankakee city until his death, in
1873, which overtook him at the age of eighty-three. Mr. Rice owns the farm on
the Kankakee river. He was married August 21, 1834, to Catharine Stanton, who
died the next year. He celebrated his second marriage October 13, 1836, with
Mary Stevens. Six children have been the fruits of this union: Elizabeth Ann,
Rachael Eleanor, Mary Jane, Jonathan (dead), William (dead), and George. Mrs.
Rice and three of her daughters belong to the Baptist church. Mr. Rice has been
an Odd-Fellow upward of thirty years, and a life-long Jackson democrat, and so
much is he wedded to the principles of "Old Hickory" that he almost fancies
himself to be voting for the old hero yet. He owns over 600 acres of valuable
land, more than 500 of which lie in Richland township. His landed estate is held
to be worth $25,000. Mr. Rice has held the office of trustee of Richland
township, and is the present incumbent.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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