Tuscola-Livingston-Oakland County MI Archives Biographies.....Rice, Frank E. 1856 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

FRANK E. RICE, who has for years been prominent in agricultural and educational
circles, and is a native of the township of Millington, Tuscola County, has his
fine farm on section 18. He was born October 15, 1856, and is a son of Jay Rice,
a native of New York, who there had his early training and education, and came
to Washtenaw County, Mich., after reaching manhood. He afterward settled in
Livingston County, where he lived for a number of years.

  The father of our subject found in Washtenaw County the lady of his choice in
the person of Lydia Beal, a daughter of Bernard Beal, who was a New Yorker by
birth. To this couple were born five children, three sons and two daughters, and
they are all now living. The father came to Millington Township in 1854, and
settled on the farm where our subject now resides, locating one hundred and
sixty acres which his parents had previously secured.

  Thomas J. Rice, the grandfather of our subject, who was the first of the
family to come to the Wolverine State, was a native of Maine, and became an
early settler, first in New York and afterward in Michigan, and having done his
full share of pioneer work and lived to a ripe old age, he died in Livingston
County in 1890, at the age of eighty-six. His son Jay, was an active and
prominent man in this county, and a hard worker, but died in Livingston County
in 1862. He was a graduate of Michigan University in the medical department and
his untimely death which took him away from a wide field of influence and
usefulness occurred in 1862. His bereaved widow is still living at the age of
fifty-six.

  Our subject lived in his native township until he reached the age of six
years, at which time he went to Livingston County, but returned when he was
fourteen years old. He and his brothers undertook to supply as far as possible
the work which their father had laid down at the call of death, and they cleared
and cultivated the farm and have erected upon it excellent buildings. Frank Rice
was married in Rochester, Mich., March 22, 1882, to Rose Lawrence, a daughter of
Russell Lawrence, who was a native of the Empire State, and who came many years
ago to Michigan. The three children who have blessed this union are Ney A., Ena
O. and Ina N.

  The political views which have met the approbation of our subject and with
which he stands in sympathy, are those which have been embodied in the
declarations of the Republican party, and the office of Highway Commissioner has
been filled by him to his own credit and the great benefit of the traveling
community, and all congratulate themselves that he is still in charge of that
important department of the public works. His interest in educational matters
has made him foremost in planning for the welfare of the schools of the
township, and he has been Moderator of the School Board, and for six years was
School Inspector. He is a man who is useful to the community in which he
resides, and friends unitedly bear testimony to his sterling worth, integrity
and valuable services as a member of the community.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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