Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Rice, Isaac 1821 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Isaac Rice, merchant and farmer, Newtown, was born in Henry county, Kentucky,
February 13, 1821, and was the son of Jonathan and Rebecca (Reynolds) Rice. His
father was a blacksmith and gunsmith, but he was raised a farmer. In 1829 the
family moved to Indiana, and took up their residence in Brown township,
Montgomery county, and in 1841 Mr. Rice came to Richland, this county, where he
celebrated his marriage with Miss Margaret Stevens on November 4 of the same
year. From that time he devoted himself to farming till 1866, when he began
merchandising in Newtown, in partnership with his brother, William. He retired
in 1875, and the following year was elected sheriff of Fountain county, and held
the office two years. He then went to selling goods again with his brother. In
the spring of 1880 the latter sold his interest to John W. Gebhart. Mr. Rice
owns 180 acres of land a mile and a half northwest of Newtown, valued at $9,000.
He has always stood and still stands faithfully in the ranks of the democratic
party, and enjoys the equal respect and confidence of friends and opponents. He
has been in communion in the Baptist church thirty-seven years, and his wife
thirty-five. They have buried two sons and a daughter, and have one daughter
living, Rebecca Jane, wife of Isaiah Jones.

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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