Rice Family Papers 1800-1962

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Rice Family Papers 1800-1962

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Papers of the three generations of the Rice and collateral Kingston and Winter families, mostly centered in Western New York State. Victor Moreau Rice (1818-1869), son of William Rice, was the State's first Superintendent of Public Instruction; other family members were also active in education. Collection includes Correspondence (1823-1960), mostly between family members; genealogical material, including research notes, charts, and scrapbooks; legal and financial material (1812-1953), including household ledgers and muster rolls of the New York Volunteer Militia (1812, 1814, 1838); memorabilia (1810-1957); photographs; and writings (1800-1965), including notebooks and diaries.

7.25 linear ft.

ger,

eng,

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6362554

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Rice family.

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[See also Rice family tree and Kingston family tree .] In 1638/9 Edmund Rice came from Barkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England and settled in Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts. Known to his descendants as Deacon Edmund Rice, he was appointed Selectman in 1644 and Deacon in 1648 and performed duties for the General Court. His first wife Tamazine, or Thomasine, Frost Rice was the maternal antecedent to this line. She died in 1654 and Edmund married his second wife, Marci...

Rice family Archives.

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Rice family Genealogy.

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Rice, V. M. (Victor Moreau), 1818-1869

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Victor Moreau Rice was born in Chautauqua County, New York, on April 5, 1818, the son of William Rice. After graduating from Allegheny College in 1841, he briefly studied law in Buffalo, New York, before he began teaching in 1843. He became Buffalo's superintendent of schools in 1852, president of the New York State Teachers' Association in 1853, and New York's first superintendent for public instruction in 1854. He also served in the state assembly and collaborated with Platt Rogers Spencer to ...

Kingston family Genealogy.

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Winter family Genealogy.

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