son of Asa Amos Rice and Polly Reed, husband of Catherine Ann Wickoff/Wyckoff/Wycoff
Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: C T Rice
Marriage Date: 24 Feb 1897
Marriage Place: Kirksville, Adair, Missouri
Registration Place: Adair, Missouri, USA
Spouse: Mrs Carrie Parsons
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Columbus T. Rice, one of the leading farmers and stock raisers of Clay Township, is a native of Tompkins County, N.Y., where he was born in 1827, and is the sixth of nine children of Asa and Polly (Reid) Rice. The father was born and reared in Connecticut, and married in Massachusetts, in 1812, at about the age of twenty-seven, and the same year removed to Tompkins County, N. Y., where he spent the remainder of his life as a tiller of the soil. He served a short time in the War of 1812, and died about 1870. The mother was born in Massachusetts, and was about five years her husband's junior, and died in 1873. Both were Methodists. Our subject remained at home until of age, only receiving a common-school education. He then went to Illinois in 1854, and the year following returned to New York and married Miss Catherine, daughter of Garrett and Elizabeth Wickoff, a native of Seneca County, N.Y. To this marriage seven children were born, five of whom are now living: Edward A. (of Kansas), Charles, James A., Mary and Augusta. He immediately returned to Illinois, and remained until 1857, then came to Adair County, Mo., and located in Clay Township, fourteen miles northeast of Kirksville, where he has a fine farm of 620 acres highly improved and cultivated, making him one of the leading farmers of the county. His property is an evidence of his industry and good management.
When a young man he learned the carpentering trade, which he followed prior to coming to Missouri. He is now one of the leading stock raisers of the county, making a specialty of breeding thoroughbred Holstein cattle. He served three months each in the years of 1862 and 1864 in the State Militia. He is one of the early settlers of the county, coming here when it was slightly settled and game was abundant, and has ever since been an active worker for the prosperity of the place, and an advocate of education. He is now a Republican, was reared a Whig, and cast his presidential vote for Lincoln in 1860.
History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri, 1888, Goodspeed Publishing Co, Pages 1014-1015
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COLUMBUS T. RICE was born in Tompkins County, New York, February 15, 1827. He attended the public schools until about seventeen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for four or five years in Northern New York, then came to Chicago, Illinois. Returning to New York, he was married to Catherine A. Wycoff in 1854, shortly after returning to Chicago, where he followed the contracting and building occupation until the fall of 1857, when he moved with his family to Missouri, where he had previously entered 200 acres of land in Clay township, Adair County, where he continued to reside until January, l896, when he moved to Kirksville, where he resided until his death, which occurred October 9, 1897 (his wife having previously died March 2, 1896). They raised a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters, of which four are still living: Edward A. Rice, born in 1855, receiving his education at the public schools and State Normal at Kirksville, and a graduate of the A.S.0., at present connected with the Post Office department at Kirksville; Charles Rice, born in 1863, receiving his education in the public schools of Adair County, and at present in the lumber business at Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri; Mary L., born in 1861, receiving her education in the public schools and State Normal at Kirksville, married to Edwin S. Rinehart in 1904, and now residing with her husband in Kirksville, Missouri; August A., born in 1866, receiving her education at the public schools and State Normal, graduating from the State Normal in 1885, married to James E. Waddill in 1888.
During the Civil War he volunteered, but was unable to pass the examination, and then enlisted in the Home Guard and later in the County Militia and served in this organization during the entire war, participating in the Battle of Kirksville. August 6, 1862.
History of Adair County, 1911
By Eugene Morrow Violette
Page 1022
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The following is part of a bio for Columbus' brother, James Harlow Rice.
JAMES HARLOW RICE, one of the oldest and most highly respected business men of Chicago, passed away at his home on Michigan Avenue, in that city, February 6, 1896. He was born in Tompkins County, New York, in 1830. His parents, Asa and Polly (Reed) Rice, were natives of Massachusetts, and settled in New York in 1811, shortly after their marriage. Asa Rice was a prosperous farmer, well known and esteemed for his great moral worth. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Church and active in good works. They attained a venerable age, the former dying when eighty years old, and the latter at seventy-five.
Mr. Rice [Asa] was an "old-line" Whig, and in later life became a Republican. His nine children reached mature years, and three came West, namely, Henry, Columbus T. and James H. Rice. The first two are now residents of Adair County, Missouri. Columbus Titus Rice came with his brother to Chicago in June, 1854, and proceeded to Missouri four years later, and has resided there ever since. In early life he was a carpenter, and worked at that occupation while a resident of Chicago. On going to Missouri he engaged in farming, but is now retired from active life. He was married in New York in 1855 to Miss Catherine Wickoff, who is still his companion on life's journey. They are the parents of six children, namely: Edward, Flora, Mary, Elizabeth, Charles, Augusta and James.
Album of Genealogy and Biography
Cook County, Illinois
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C.T. Rice, of Clay township who has been in failing health for some time, is in town being treated by Dr. Avery.
Weekly Graphic
Kirksville, Missouri
February 19, 1892
Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: C T Rice
Marriage Date: 24 Feb 1897
Marriage Place: Kirksville, Adair, Missouri
Registration Place: Adair, Missouri, USA
Spouse: Mrs Carrie Parsons
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Columbus T. Rice, one of the leading farmers and stock raisers of Clay Township, is a native of Tompkins County, N.Y., where he was born in 1827, and is the sixth of nine children of Asa and Polly (Reid) Rice. The father was born and reared in Connecticut, and married in Massachusetts, in 1812, at about the age of twenty-seven, and the same year removed to Tompkins County, N. Y., where he spent the remainder of his life as a tiller of the soil. He served a short time in the War of 1812, and died about 1870. The mother was born in Massachusetts, and was about five years her husband's junior, and died in 1873. Both were Methodists. Our subject remained at home until of age, only receiving a common-school education. He then went to Illinois in 1854, and the year following returned to New York and married Miss Catherine, daughter of Garrett and Elizabeth Wickoff, a native of Seneca County, N.Y. To this marriage seven children were born, five of whom are now living: Edward A. (of Kansas), Charles, James A., Mary and Augusta. He immediately returned to Illinois, and remained until 1857, then came to Adair County, Mo., and located in Clay Township, fourteen miles northeast of Kirksville, where he has a fine farm of 620 acres highly improved and cultivated, making him one of the leading farmers of the county. His property is an evidence of his industry and good management.
When a young man he learned the carpentering trade, which he followed prior to coming to Missouri. He is now one of the leading stock raisers of the county, making a specialty of breeding thoroughbred Holstein cattle. He served three months each in the years of 1862 and 1864 in the State Militia. He is one of the early settlers of the county, coming here when it was slightly settled and game was abundant, and has ever since been an active worker for the prosperity of the place, and an advocate of education. He is now a Republican, was reared a Whig, and cast his presidential vote for Lincoln in 1860.
History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri, 1888, Goodspeed Publishing Co, Pages 1014-1015
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COLUMBUS T. RICE was born in Tompkins County, New York, February 15, 1827. He attended the public schools until about seventeen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for four or five years in Northern New York, then came to Chicago, Illinois. Returning to New York, he was married to Catherine A. Wycoff in 1854, shortly after returning to Chicago, where he followed the contracting and building occupation until the fall of 1857, when he moved with his family to Missouri, where he had previously entered 200 acres of land in Clay township, Adair County, where he continued to reside until January, l896, when he moved to Kirksville, where he resided until his death, which occurred October 9, 1897 (his wife having previously died March 2, 1896). They raised a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters, of which four are still living: Edward A. Rice, born in 1855, receiving his education at the public schools and State Normal at Kirksville, and a graduate of the A.S.0., at present connected with the Post Office department at Kirksville; Charles Rice, born in 1863, receiving his education in the public schools of Adair County, and at present in the lumber business at Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri; Mary L., born in 1861, receiving her education in the public schools and State Normal at Kirksville, married to Edwin S. Rinehart in 1904, and now residing with her husband in Kirksville, Missouri; August A., born in 1866, receiving her education at the public schools and State Normal, graduating from the State Normal in 1885, married to James E. Waddill in 1888.
During the Civil War he volunteered, but was unable to pass the examination, and then enlisted in the Home Guard and later in the County Militia and served in this organization during the entire war, participating in the Battle of Kirksville. August 6, 1862.
History of Adair County, 1911
By Eugene Morrow Violette
Page 1022
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The following is part of a bio for Columbus' brother, James Harlow Rice.
JAMES HARLOW RICE, one of the oldest and most highly respected business men of Chicago, passed away at his home on Michigan Avenue, in that city, February 6, 1896. He was born in Tompkins County, New York, in 1830. His parents, Asa and Polly (Reed) Rice, were natives of Massachusetts, and settled in New York in 1811, shortly after their marriage. Asa Rice was a prosperous farmer, well known and esteemed for his great moral worth. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Church and active in good works. They attained a venerable age, the former dying when eighty years old, and the latter at seventy-five.
Mr. Rice [Asa] was an "old-line" Whig, and in later life became a Republican. His nine children reached mature years, and three came West, namely, Henry, Columbus T. and James H. Rice. The first two are now residents of Adair County, Missouri. Columbus Titus Rice came with his brother to Chicago in June, 1854, and proceeded to Missouri four years later, and has resided there ever since. In early life he was a carpenter, and worked at that occupation while a resident of Chicago. On going to Missouri he engaged in farming, but is now retired from active life. He was married in New York in 1855 to Miss Catherine Wickoff, who is still his companion on life's journey. They are the parents of six children, namely: Edward, Flora, Mary, Elizabeth, Charles, Augusta and James.
Album of Genealogy and Biography
Cook County, Illinois
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C.T. Rice, of Clay township who has been in failing health for some time, is in town being treated by Dr. Avery.
Weekly Graphic
Kirksville, Missouri
February 19, 1892
son of Asa Amos Rice and Polly Reed, husband of Catherine Ann Wickoff/Wyckoff/Wycoff
Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: C T Rice
Marriage Date: 24 Feb 1897
Marriage Place: Kirksville, Adair, Missouri
Registration Place: Adair, Missouri, USA
Spouse: Mrs Carrie Parsons
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Columbus T. Rice, one of the leading farmers and stock raisers of Clay Township, is a native of Tompkins County, N.Y., where he was born in 1827, and is the sixth of nine children of Asa and Polly (Reid) Rice. The father was born and reared in Connecticut, and married in Massachusetts, in 1812, at about the age of twenty-seven, and the same year removed to Tompkins County, N. Y., where he spent the remainder of his life as a tiller of the soil. He served a short time in the War of 1812, and died about 1870. The mother was born in Massachusetts, and was about five years her husband's junior, and died in 1873. Both were Methodists. Our subject remained at home until of age, only receiving a common-school education. He then went to Illinois in 1854, and the year following returned to New York and married Miss Catherine, daughter of Garrett and Elizabeth Wickoff, a native of Seneca County, N.Y. To this marriage seven children were born, five of whom are now living: Edward A. (of Kansas), Charles, James A., Mary and Augusta. He immediately returned to Illinois, and remained until 1857, then came to Adair County, Mo., and located in Clay Township, fourteen miles northeast of Kirksville, where he has a fine farm of 620 acres highly improved and cultivated, making him one of the leading farmers of the county. His property is an evidence of his industry and good management.
When a young man he learned the carpentering trade, which he followed prior to coming to Missouri. He is now one of the leading stock raisers of the county, making a specialty of breeding thoroughbred Holstein cattle. He served three months each in the years of 1862 and 1864 in the State Militia. He is one of the early settlers of the county, coming here when it was slightly settled and game was abundant, and has ever since been an active worker for the prosperity of the place, and an advocate of education. He is now a Republican, was reared a Whig, and cast his presidential vote for Lincoln in 1860.
History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri, 1888, Goodspeed Publishing Co, Pages 1014-1015
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COLUMBUS T. RICE was born in Tompkins County, New York, February 15, 1827. He attended the public schools until about seventeen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for four or five years in Northern New York, then came to Chicago, Illinois. Returning to New York, he was married to Catherine A. Wycoff in 1854, shortly after returning to Chicago, where he followed the contracting and building occupation until the fall of 1857, when he moved with his family to Missouri, where he had previously entered 200 acres of land in Clay township, Adair County, where he continued to reside until January, l896, when he moved to Kirksville, where he resided until his death, which occurred October 9, 1897 (his wife having previously died March 2, 1896). They raised a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters, of which four are still living: Edward A. Rice, born in 1855, receiving his education at the public schools and State Normal at Kirksville, and a graduate of the A.S.0., at present connected with the Post Office department at Kirksville; Charles Rice, born in 1863, receiving his education in the public schools of Adair County, and at present in the lumber business at Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri; Mary L., born in 1861, receiving her education in the public schools and State Normal at Kirksville, married to Edwin S. Rinehart in 1904, and now residing with her husband in Kirksville, Missouri; August A., born in 1866, receiving her education at the public schools and State Normal, graduating from the State Normal in 1885, married to James E. Waddill in 1888.
During the Civil War he volunteered, but was unable to pass the examination, and then enlisted in the Home Guard and later in the County Militia and served in this organization during the entire war, participating in the Battle of Kirksville. August 6, 1862.
History of Adair County, 1911
By Eugene Morrow Violette
Page 1022
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The following is part of a bio for Columbus' brother, James Harlow Rice.
JAMES HARLOW RICE, one of the oldest and most highly respected business men of Chicago, passed away at his home on Michigan Avenue, in that city, February 6, 1896. He was born in Tompkins County, New York, in 1830. His parents, Asa and Polly (Reed) Rice, were natives of Massachusetts, and settled in New York in 1811, shortly after their marriage. Asa Rice was a prosperous farmer, well known and esteemed for his great moral worth. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Church and active in good works. They attained a venerable age, the former dying when eighty years old, and the latter at seventy-five.
Mr. Rice [Asa] was an "old-line" Whig, and in later life became a Republican. His nine children reached mature years, and three came West, namely, Henry, Columbus T. and James H. Rice. The first two are now residents of Adair County, Missouri. Columbus Titus Rice came with his brother to Chicago in June, 1854, and proceeded to Missouri four years later, and has resided there ever since. In early life he was a carpenter, and worked at that occupation while a resident of Chicago. On going to Missouri he engaged in farming, but is now retired from active life. He was married in New York in 1855 to Miss Catherine Wickoff, who is still his companion on life's journey. They are the parents of six children, namely: Edward, Flora, Mary, Elizabeth, Charles, Augusta and James.
Album of Genealogy and Biography
Cook County, Illinois
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C.T. Rice, of Clay township who has been in failing health for some time, is in town being treated by Dr. Avery.
Weekly Graphic
Kirksville, Missouri
February 19, 1892
Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
Name: C T Rice
Marriage Date: 24 Feb 1897
Marriage Place: Kirksville, Adair, Missouri
Registration Place: Adair, Missouri, USA
Spouse: Mrs Carrie Parsons
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Columbus T. Rice, one of the leading farmers and stock raisers of Clay Township, is a native of Tompkins County, N.Y., where he was born in 1827, and is the sixth of nine children of Asa and Polly (Reid) Rice. The father was born and reared in Connecticut, and married in Massachusetts, in 1812, at about the age of twenty-seven, and the same year removed to Tompkins County, N. Y., where he spent the remainder of his life as a tiller of the soil. He served a short time in the War of 1812, and died about 1870. The mother was born in Massachusetts, and was about five years her husband's junior, and died in 1873. Both were Methodists. Our subject remained at home until of age, only receiving a common-school education. He then went to Illinois in 1854, and the year following returned to New York and married Miss Catherine, daughter of Garrett and Elizabeth Wickoff, a native of Seneca County, N.Y. To this marriage seven children were born, five of whom are now living: Edward A. (of Kansas), Charles, James A., Mary and Augusta. He immediately returned to Illinois, and remained until 1857, then came to Adair County, Mo., and located in Clay Township, fourteen miles northeast of Kirksville, where he has a fine farm of 620 acres highly improved and cultivated, making him one of the leading farmers of the county. His property is an evidence of his industry and good management.
When a young man he learned the carpentering trade, which he followed prior to coming to Missouri. He is now one of the leading stock raisers of the county, making a specialty of breeding thoroughbred Holstein cattle. He served three months each in the years of 1862 and 1864 in the State Militia. He is one of the early settlers of the county, coming here when it was slightly settled and game was abundant, and has ever since been an active worker for the prosperity of the place, and an advocate of education. He is now a Republican, was reared a Whig, and cast his presidential vote for Lincoln in 1860.
History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri, 1888, Goodspeed Publishing Co, Pages 1014-1015
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COLUMBUS T. RICE was born in Tompkins County, New York, February 15, 1827. He attended the public schools until about seventeen years of age, when he was apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, at which he worked for four or five years in Northern New York, then came to Chicago, Illinois. Returning to New York, he was married to Catherine A. Wycoff in 1854, shortly after returning to Chicago, where he followed the contracting and building occupation until the fall of 1857, when he moved with his family to Missouri, where he had previously entered 200 acres of land in Clay township, Adair County, where he continued to reside until January, l896, when he moved to Kirksville, where he resided until his death, which occurred October 9, 1897 (his wife having previously died March 2, 1896). They raised a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters, of which four are still living: Edward A. Rice, born in 1855, receiving his education at the public schools and State Normal at Kirksville, and a graduate of the A.S.0., at present connected with the Post Office department at Kirksville; Charles Rice, born in 1863, receiving his education in the public schools of Adair County, and at present in the lumber business at Milan, Sullivan County, Missouri; Mary L., born in 1861, receiving her education in the public schools and State Normal at Kirksville, married to Edwin S. Rinehart in 1904, and now residing with her husband in Kirksville, Missouri; August A., born in 1866, receiving her education at the public schools and State Normal, graduating from the State Normal in 1885, married to James E. Waddill in 1888.
During the Civil War he volunteered, but was unable to pass the examination, and then enlisted in the Home Guard and later in the County Militia and served in this organization during the entire war, participating in the Battle of Kirksville. August 6, 1862.
History of Adair County, 1911
By Eugene Morrow Violette
Page 1022
------------
The following is part of a bio for Columbus' brother, James Harlow Rice.
JAMES HARLOW RICE, one of the oldest and most highly respected business men of Chicago, passed away at his home on Michigan Avenue, in that city, February 6, 1896. He was born in Tompkins County, New York, in 1830. His parents, Asa and Polly (Reed) Rice, were natives of Massachusetts, and settled in New York in 1811, shortly after their marriage. Asa Rice was a prosperous farmer, well known and esteemed for his great moral worth. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Church and active in good works. They attained a venerable age, the former dying when eighty years old, and the latter at seventy-five.
Mr. Rice [Asa] was an "old-line" Whig, and in later life became a Republican. His nine children reached mature years, and three came West, namely, Henry, Columbus T. and James H. Rice. The first two are now residents of Adair County, Missouri. Columbus Titus Rice came with his brother to Chicago in June, 1854, and proceeded to Missouri four years later, and has resided there ever since. In early life he was a carpenter, and worked at that occupation while a resident of Chicago. On going to Missouri he engaged in farming, but is now retired from active life. He was married in New York in 1855 to Miss Catherine Wickoff, who is still his companion on life's journey. They are the parents of six children, namely: Edward, Flora, Mary, Elizabeth, Charles, Augusta and James.
Album of Genealogy and Biography
Cook County, Illinois
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C.T. Rice, of Clay township who has been in failing health for some time, is in town being treated by Dr. Avery.
Weekly Graphic
Kirksville, Missouri
February 19, 1892
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