Individual Details
Wallace de Groot Cecil RICE
(10 Nov 1859 - Aft 10 Jun 1902)
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IX, R, Rice, William North, page 86
RICE, Wallace (de Groot Cecil), author, editor and critic, was born in Hamilton, Canada, Nov. 10, 1859; son of John Asaph and Margaret Van Slycke (Culver) Rice; grandson of Anson and Lucy (Sherman) Rice, and of Lewis Halsey and Ann Eliza (Sebring) Culver; great-grand-nephew of the Rev. Luther Rice (q.v.); great-grandson of Isaac Sherman, Marlborough (Mass) Minute Men; great 2–grandson of Amos Rice, captain in the 6th Worcester County (Mass.) volunteers; of Thomas Sebring, captain in the New Jersey line, and of Abraham Wood, clerk of the Northborough (Mass.) Minute Men, of the Revolutionary armies; and a descendant of Deacon Edmund Rice and Tamazin, his wife, who came from Berkhampstead, Herts, in 1638, and settled in Sudbury, Mass., to become one of the first settlers of Marlborough, Mass., in 1656. His parents were Americans temporarily residing in Canada at the time of his birth, removing with him to Chicago, Ill., in 1861. He attended the grammar school of Racine college, and entered Harvard with the class of 1883, but was not graduated. He was admitted to the Chicago bar in November, 1884, and began practice. He [p.86] married, Aug. 8, 1889, Minna Hale Angier of Chicago. In February, 1890, he entered upon newspaper work, and later became a member of the (literary) critical staff of the principal Chicago periodicals; literary adviser to A. C. McGlurg & Co., and to the Fleming H. Revell company of Chicago, and lecturer on contemporaneous verse. He is the author of: Under the Stars, and Other Songs of the Sea (with Barrett Eastman, 1898); Heroic Deeds (1898); Flying Sands (1898); Ballads of Valor and Victory (with Clinton Scollard, 1901), and Animals (1901). He is the editor of: Poems of Francis Brooks, with Prefatory Memoir (1898); Poems of Rudyard Kipling, with Introductory Essay (1899); The Basia of Joannes Secundus, with Appreciation (1901); The Younger Poets of the Old World (1902), and The Younger Poets of the New World (1902). He wrote and read the Memorial Ode for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Racine college, which was celebrated, June 10, 1902, at Racine, Wis.
RICE, Wallace (de Groot Cecil), author, editor and critic, was born in Hamilton, Canada, Nov. 10, 1859; son of John Asaph and Margaret Van Slycke (Culver) Rice; grandson of Anson and Lucy (Sherman) Rice, and of Lewis Halsey and Ann Eliza (Sebring) Culver; great-grand-nephew of the Rev. Luther Rice (q.v.); great-grandson of Isaac Sherman, Marlborough (Mass) Minute Men; great 2–grandson of Amos Rice, captain in the 6th Worcester County (Mass.) volunteers; of Thomas Sebring, captain in the New Jersey line, and of Abraham Wood, clerk of the Northborough (Mass.) Minute Men, of the Revolutionary armies; and a descendant of Deacon Edmund Rice and Tamazin, his wife, who came from Berkhampstead, Herts, in 1638, and settled in Sudbury, Mass., to become one of the first settlers of Marlborough, Mass., in 1656. His parents were Americans temporarily residing in Canada at the time of his birth, removing with him to Chicago, Ill., in 1861. He attended the grammar school of Racine college, and entered Harvard with the class of 1883, but was not graduated. He was admitted to the Chicago bar in November, 1884, and began practice. He [p.86] married, Aug. 8, 1889, Minna Hale Angier of Chicago. In February, 1890, he entered upon newspaper work, and later became a member of the (literary) critical staff of the principal Chicago periodicals; literary adviser to A. C. McGlurg & Co., and to the Fleming H. Revell company of Chicago, and lecturer on contemporaneous verse. He is the author of: Under the Stars, and Other Songs of the Sea (with Barrett Eastman, 1898); Heroic Deeds (1898); Flying Sands (1898); Ballads of Valor and Victory (with Clinton Scollard, 1901), and Animals (1901). He is the editor of: Poems of Francis Brooks, with Prefatory Memoir (1898); Poems of Rudyard Kipling, with Introductory Essay (1899); The Basia of Joannes Secundus, with Appreciation (1901); The Younger Poets of the Old World (1902), and The Younger Poets of the New World (1902). He wrote and read the Memorial Ode for the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Racine college, which was celebrated, June 10, 1902, at Racine, Wis.
Events
| Birth | 10 Nov 1859 | Hamilton, Canada | |||
| Residence | 1861 | Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois | |||
| Marriage | 8 Aug 1889 | Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois - Minna Hale ANGIER | |||
| Death | Aft 10 Jun 1902 |
Families
| Spouse | Minna Hale ANGIER (1862 - ) |
| Father | John Asaph RICE (1829 - 1880) |
| Mother | Margaret Van Slycke CULVER (1832 - ) |
| Sibling | Margaret Sherman RICE (1865 - 1916) |
| Sibling | Lewis Anson RICE (1871 - 1941) |