BROWN COUNTY OHIO - BIO: RICE, Joseph H. (published 1894)
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A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND.
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894 - Page 671-672

        JOSEPH H. RICE, one of the intelligent young business men of the
thriving town of Yorktown, Delaware county, Ind., was born in Higginsport,
Brown county, Ohio, February 12, 1858, a son of Joseph and Martha (Goetz)
Rice, natives of Baden, Germany. The father, on coming to the United
States, located in Brown county, Ohio, where he remained until his death,
which occurred in September, 1876. He was by trade a professional cook and
baker, which calling he followed during the greater part of his life. Ten
children were born to Joseph and Martha Rice, only five of whom reached the
age of maturity. The mother found a home with her daughter in Higginsport
after the death of the father of the family, who had been a man of honest
life and industrious habits. In religion they were Catholics, and in
politics he was a republican.
        Joseph H. Rice was reared in the usual manner of farmer lads, and
early in life was taught the principles of economy, which he has applied in
his later life, and has grown to be one of the most respected and esteemed
business men of this locality. He received some educational advantages, and
at the age of twenty-one enlisted in the regular army, entering company I,
Seventeenth infantry, for a period of five years, and was sent out to the
plains to do garrison duty. After his discharge, he farmed for one year,
and then removed to Higginsport, where he engaged in the dry goods and
grocery trade, which business he continued until January 4, 1892, when he
closed out and moved to Yorktown and opened up his business here. At his
present location Mr. Rice has a very nice store, well stocked with with
salable merchandise, including dry goods, groceries, gentlemen's and
ladies' furnishing goods. He was married at Muncie, in this county, June
24, 1882, to Miss Linnie E. Williamson, bor
n in Yorktown, March 25, 1861, daughter of William and Martha (Dragoo)
Williamson, of Brown county, Ohio. Two bright boys have been born of this
marriage, Edgar and Eugene. They are of the spiritualistic faith, and
politically, Mr. Rice is a democrat.


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