Biography of 	RICE, Charles S., Frankfort, Maine, then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller  April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 376.  Edited by
Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Rice, Charles S., successful New Orleans attorney, was born at Frankfort,
Maine, Dec. 20, 1837, and comes of an old Massachusetts family, being a son
of Edward and Elvira (Sparrow) Rice.  When the son was about 15 years of
age his parents removed to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he thereafter
attended Antioch college.  At the beginning of the Civil war he enlisted as
a private in the Union army, but was promoted to the rank of captain, and
during the succeeding 4 years commanded the 17th Ohio battery, and served
the cause of the Union.  In 1863, as a member of his command, he went to
New Orleans as a Federal soldier, and in the year 1865 he returned to New
Orleans as a citizen.  June 20, 1866 he was admitted as a member of the
Louisiana bar, and from the latter date to the present time has actively
practiced law in the City of New Orleans, where he has attained the
position of a learned and able lawyer, zealous in the interest of his
clients and deeply appreciative of the obligations of American citizenship,
while enjoying the esteem of the people among whom he lives as a man of
sterling qualities of character and a high sense of personal integrity.  In
1869 Mr. Rice was married to Miss Josephine E. N. Hard, was born in the
state of Massachusetts.  Mr. and Mrs. Rice have no living children.