Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Rice, Milo M. 1864 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

MILO M. RICE.

    Milo M. Rice, one of the well-known and prominent residents of Cottage Hill
township, Marshall county, was born in the state of Pennsylvania on November 17,
1864, and is the son of George I. and Kate (Rice) Rice, both of whom were
natives of Pennsylvania and members of old families of the state. The first
member of the Rice family to settle in Pennsylvania was Zachariah, who was born
in Germany and settled in the state in the eighteenth century. He was the father
of twenty-one children and his grandchildren numbered one hundred and fifty-six.
Members of the family did good service in the Revolutionary War and in the War
of 1812, and were prominent in the localities in which they lived.

    George I. and Kate Rice received their education in the schools of their
native state and there grew to manhood and womanhood. The former was born in
1841 and the latter in 1842, and they have spent their lives in the state of
their nativity and are now living on the old home farm. They are the parents of
nine children, three of whom came to Kansas: Anna Hirt, who resides in Cottage
Hill township, Marshall county, where her husband is a farmer and influential
man in the district; Alberta Arganbright is also a resident of Cottage Hill
township, where Mr. Arganbright is engaged in general farming and stock raising,
and Milo M., the subject, of this sketch. The Rices have long been prominent in
the social and religious life of the state of Pennsylvania and are active in the
work of the Lutheran church.

    Milo M. Rice received his education in the public schools of Pennsylvania
and was reared on the home farm, where he lived until he was seventeen years of
age when in 1883 he started in work for himself. He came to Ohio that year, but
remained there but two months, when he came to Kansas in June of the same year.
Here he engaged as a farm hand and attended a teachers' institute, after which
he taught school for one winter. He then rented two hundred and forty acres of
land; he later bought eighty acres, on which he has since resided, with the
exception of three years that he lived at Baldwin, when he and his wife moved to
give their children a better opportunity to obtain an education. His farm is one
of the splendid tracts of land in the county and is nicely improved. The
buildings are well kept and the fields are under a high state of cultivation. He
always kept high-grade stock, which was among the best in the district. In 1906
he retired from the more active duties of farm life, yet he takes much interest
in the management of his farm.

    On February 7, 1886, Mr. Rice was united in marriage to Lura E. Clark, the
daughter of James and Emma Clark, natives of Pennsylvania and the state of New
York, respectively. They established their home in Illinois and later came to
Kansas. Lura Ethel (Clark) Rice was born in Illinois, in Lee county, on October
2, 1867, where she received her early education and later came with her parents
to Kansas. The father is now deceased and the mother is making her home at
Baldwin with her son, William, who is a graduate of the Baker University and is
now with the Baldwin State Bank. The Clarks moved to Baldwin in order to educate
their children and there they lived for a number of years. They were people of
high ideals and took the greatest interest in all educational matters and were
prominent in the community in which they lived and where they were held in the
highest regard and esteem.

    To Milo M. and Lura (Clark) Rice have been born the following children:
George Clark, William Fletcher and Clarence Albert. George Clark was born on
October 30, 1887, and after completing his education in the common schools
entered Baker University, where he received his degree and is now a resident of
Los Angeles, California, where he is a bookkeeper for the Williams Company;
William Fletcher was born on December 9, 1888, and completed the common-school
course and is a graduate of the Commercial Class of Baker University and is now
a resident of California, and Clarence Albert was born on November 8, 1892, and
is now engaged in farming on the home place, where he is in partnership with his
father, in general farming and stock raising, and is meeting with much success.

    The village of Cottage Hill is located on the farm of Milo M. Rice and he is
known as the father of the village, he having been one of the earliest settlers
in this community and had much to do with the foundation and growth of the
place. He has always taken much interest in local affairs and has been much
interested in the development of the village, where he has had so many interests.

    Politically, Mr. Rice is identified with the Republican party and has been
one of the prominent men in the civic life of the district. In 1908 he was
elected trustee of his home township and served in that capacity for eight
years, when he declined re-election. During his term as trustee many substantial
developments were made and his interests were ever for the good of the community
in which he lived. The best schools and good roads received his utmost
consideration, for in these he believed that the future of the township and the
county largely depended.

    Mr. and Mrs. Rice are active members of the Lutheran church and have always
taken great interest in church work and are prominent in the social life of the
community. Mr. Rice is one of the active members of the Modern Woodmen of
America and to him is due much of the success of the local lodge. He is a man of
pleasing qualities and has a wide influence throughout the county.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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