. He had been a frequent contributor to magazines, and in 1858 published " Mount Wnmn, and other Poems " (4th cd., New York. 1864). He had also published " Nature and Culture " (Boston, 1875) : " Pioneers of the Western Reserve " (1882) ; "Select Poems" (1885); and "Sketches of West- ern Life " (1888).
RICE, Henry Mower, senator, b. in Waits-
field. Vt.. 20 Nov.. 1816 : d. in San Antonio. Texas,
15 Jan., 1894. He emigrated to Michigan in 1835,
and was employed in making surveys of Kalamazoo
and Grand rivers, and of the Sault Sainte Marie
canal in 1837. He removed to Fort Snelling, Iowa
territory, in 183!), and was post-sutler at Port At-
kinson in 1840-'2, and subsequently an agent of
a fur-trading company, and established trading-
posts from Lake Superior to the Red river of the
North. On 2 Aug., 1847. he served as U. S. com-
missioner at Pond du Lac in making a treaty
with the Ojibway Indians for the cession of the
country south of Crow Wing and Long Prairie
rivers. On 21 Aug. he obtained from the Pillager
band of Ojibways the cession of a large tract be-
tween those rivers, known as the Leaf River coun-
try. He assisted in making many other treaties.
He settled in St. Paul in 1849. was elected a dele-
gate from Minnesota territory to congress in 1853,
was re-elected in 1855, was the author of the law
extending the right of pre-emption over unsur-
veyed lands in the territory, and procured the pas-
sage of an act authorizing the framing of a state
constitution preparatory to the admission of Min-
nesota into the Union. He was then elected In the
U. S. senate, serving from 11 May, 1858, till 3
March, 1863. Mr. Rice was a member of the com-
mittees on finance and military affairs, and the spe-
cial committee on the condition of the country in
I860-'!, and a delegate to the Philadelphia nation-
al union convention in 1H06. He was the founder
of Bayfield. Wis.. mid Muni-dug. Mich., and had
given Rice park to the city of St. Paul.
RICE, Isaac Leopold, author, b. in Wachen-
heim. Bavaria. 22 Feb., 1850. He was brought to
the United States in 1856, educated at Philadel-
phia high-school, and studied music in that city
and in 1866-'8 at the Paris conservatoire, acting
while there as correspondent of the Philadelphia
"Evening Bulletin." He taught music and lan-
guages for some time in England, and in the au-
tumn of 1809 established himself as a music-teacher
in New York city. He was graduated at Columbia
law-school in 1880, founded the academy of politi-
cal science, and was lecturer and librarian of the
political science library of Columbia in 1882-'3,
and then entered on the practice of the special
branch of railroad law, acting also as instructor in
Columbia college law-school till 1886. He was one
of the founders of the " Forum " in New York city
in 1885, and, besides articles on political science,
has published "What is Music !" (New York, 1875)
and How Geometrical Lines have their Counter-
parts in Music " (1880).
RICE, James Clay, soldier, b. in Worthington,
Mass., 27 Dec., 1829 ; d. near Spottsylvania Court-
House, Va., 11 May, 1864. He obtained an educa-
tion by his own efforts, and, after graduation at
Yale in 1854, engaged in teaching at Natchez,
Miss., and conducted the literary department of a
newspaper. He also began the study of law, and
continued it in New York city, where he was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1S5IJ and entered into practice.
When the civil war began he enlisted as a private,
became adjutant and captain, and, on the organi-
zation of the 44th New York regiment, was ap-
pointed its lieutenant-colonel. He became colo-
nel of the regiment soon afterward, and led it. in
i he liaiiles of Yorkt.own, Hanover Court-House,
Gaines's Mills. Malvern Hill, Manassas, Fredericks-
burg, and Chancellorsville, and at Gettysburg
commanded a brigade, and during the second day's
fight performed an important service by holding
the extreme left of the line against repeated at-
tacks and securing Round Top mountain against
a flank movement. For this he was commis.-n .u.-d
as brigadier-general of volunteers, 17 Aug.. isi;:;.
He participated in the advance on Mine Run and
in the operations in the Wilderness, and was killed
in the battle near Spottsylvania.
RICE, Luther, philanthropist, b. in North-
borough, Mass., 25 March, 1783; d. in Edgefield
district, S. C., 25 Sept., 1836. He spent three
years at Leicester academy, paying his expenses
by his own exertions. While he was at Williams
college, which he entered in 1807. he became deep-
ly interested in the subject of foreign missions.
Through his instrumentality a society of inquiry
on this subject was formed, a branch of which
was organized about the same time at Andover
seminary. At this seminary, where he became a
student, he engaged with Judson, Mills, Newell,
and others in preparing a memorial to the General
association of evangelical ministers in Massachu-
setts, urging the claims of the heathen upon their
attention. The result of their efforts was the for-
mation of the American board of commissioners
for foreign missions. Rice was not appointed with
the first company of missionaries by the board,
but, being intent upon going, was allowed to do so
on condition that he should raise the money for
his outfit and passage. This he did in a few days.
He was ordained as a Congregational minister in
Salem, Mass., 6 Feb., 1812, and sailed for India on
the 18th in the packet " Harmony." Shortly after
his arrival in India he united with the Baptists.
His associates, Adoniram Judson and his wife, had
done the same thing a few weeks earlier. On
account of opposition on the part of the English
authorities, Mr. Rice sailed for the Isle of France,
and thence for the United States, to adjust his re-
lations with the American board. Reaching New
York, 7 Sept., 1813, he went at once to Boston. His
ivlai i, ins with the board were quickly dissolved,
and he turned to the Baptist denomination, with
which he now identified himself. Being commis-
sioned as an agent by a company of Baptists in
Boston, he traversed the country, stirring the Bap-
tist churches to take up the cause of foreign mis-
sions. Partly as a result of his efforts, delegates
met in Philadelphia in May, 1814, and organized
the general convention of the Baptist denomina-
tion in the United States for foreign mi. -ions.
With his missionary zeal Mr. Rice united an eager
interest in the cause of ministerial education.
Mainly through his influence and efforts an insti-
tution of learning was established in Washington,
D. C., which is now known as Columbian university.
He was for several years its agent and treasurer,
while serving at, the same time as missionary agent.
He sacrificed his life in seeking to promote the
welfare of the college that he had founded. In
1815 he was elected to the presidency of Transyl-
vania university, Lexington, Ky., but he declined
this call, as well as a similar one to Georgetown
college. Ky. Mr. Rice was a preacher of great
power. He left no published works, but few men
have exerted upon the Baptist denomination a
wider and more lasting influence.
RICE. Nathan Lewis, clergyman, b. in fJarrard county, Ky., 29 Dec., 1807; d. lii Chatham. Ky.. 11 June, 1877. He was educated at Centre college,
