BIO: DAVID S. RICE, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 401
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    DAVID S. RICE, who is engaged in farming and stock growing in South
  Middleton township, Cumberland county, was born Jan. 5, 1836, in Adams
  county, Pa. He comes of Revolutionary stock, his grandfather, Daniel Rice,
  having served in the Revolutionary war. Daniel Rice was born in Northampton
  county, Pa., and moved to Adams county, settling near Bendersville. He was
  the father of five sons, Christopher, John, Daniel, Peter and Henry, all of
  whom are now deceased.
    
    Peter Rice, father of David S., was born near Bendersville, Adams county,
  Pa., and received a common-school education in German and English. He was
  reared to farming on the old homestead, and followed that occupation all his
  life. He was twice married, first time at the age of twenty-one years, and
  the second time to Elizabeth Plank, also a native of Pennsylvania. There were
  four children by the first union and eight by the second, David S. being the
  third child by the second wife. The father was a member and very active
  worker in the Lutheran Church near Bendersville, and held almost all the
  offices in that congregation. He voted the Democratic ticket. His death
  occurred in May, 1861, and his wife passed away several years later.
    
    David S. Rice grew to manhood on a farm in his native county, and there
  received a good common-school education, attending school up to the age of
  seventeen years. He then commenced to learn the blacksmith's trade, and He
  also learned chainmaking, working at these trades until he enlisted for
  service in the Civil war. On Aug. 7, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, 15th Pa.
  Cavalry, and was given special work in the line of his trades, receiving an
  honorable discharge at the end of his, term of enlistment. He held the rank
  of a non-commissioned officer. Since the war Mr. Rice has been engaged as a
  farmer and stock raiser, and has met with substantial success in that line,
  now owning the tract of ninety-six acres on which he makes his home. He is a
  man esteemed by all his associates, whether in business dealings or in
  private life.
    
    In 1865 Mr. Rice was married to Miss Mary C. Royer, daughter of Benjamin
  Royer, a farmer, her parents both being natives of Pennsylvania and of German
  extraction. Four children have blessed this union, Benjamin Elmer, Emma E.,
  Seth Edwin and Robert E., the last named born May 22, 1885; he is still with
  his parents, and attends school in Carlisle. The mother of this family holds
  membership in the Lutheran Church. Mr. Rice is, in political sentiment, a
  stanch Republican.