Biographical Sketch of W. D. Rice, Walnut Grove Township, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman is the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Porter) Rice, and
was born in Polk County, Missouri, February 11, 1857.  His father was a
native of Logan County, Kentucky, born in March, 1801 and died in 1860,
in Polk County, Missouri, upon the old homestead.  His mother was the
widow of James Chastine, who was married to her in Kentucky.  Mr. Chas-
tine was one of the early settlers of Greene County, and entered the
land where Walnut Grove is now located.  He died about the year 1838,
and Mrs. Chastine was married to Mr. Rice in 1839.  She died November
6, 1880.  W. D. Rice was educated at Morrisville Institute, and taught
school in Polk and Greene Counties about two years.  He then followed
civil engineering in Texas for two years, and returned to Greene County
in January, 1880, and went into the drug business in Walnut Grove.  He
followed it about six months, and then embarked in the general merchan-
dise business of Brown & Rice, and at once took the lead in the busi-
ness of that place.  Mr. Rice was married about June 5, 1881 to Miss
Maggie, daughter of Josiah Brown, Esq., one of the prominent citizens
of this county.  Their union has been blest with one son, born March
23, 1882.  Mr. Rice is one of the substantial business men of the
county, young as he is, and already ranks well in the mercantile world.

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