Wallace Rice
| Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice | |
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Wallace Rice in 1911 The Theatre
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| Born |
10 November 1859 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 15 December 1939 (aged 80) Chicago, Illinois |
| Residence | Chicago |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Bachelor of Laws |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
| Occupation | writer, newspaperman, poet |
| Years active | 1885–1935 |
| Known for | literature & design of the Chicago flag |
| Spouse(s) | Minnie (Hale) Angier |
| Children | John Rice Benjamin Rice |
| Parent(s) | John Asaph Rice and Margaret Van Slyke (Culver) Rice |
| Relatives | Frances V. Rice, sister & frequent co-author |
| Website | http://mms.newberry.org/html/RiceW.html |
Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice (1859–1939) was an American author and vexillographer from Hamilton, Ontario.
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Wallace Rice was born 10 Nov 1859, to John Asaph Rice (1829 – 1888) and Margaret Van Slyke (Culver) Rice (ca1829-1891) in Hamilton, Ontario, while his parents were temporarily residing in Canada. His father John Asaph Rice was a hotelier in Chicago, owner of the Tremont House and co-owner of the Sherman House Hotel, and noted collector of rare books, manuscripts, and Americana. As a boy, Rice attended grammar school of Racine College. After graduating from Harvard University in 1883, Rice was admitted to the bar in Chicago in November 1884. He married Minnie (Hale) Angier on 8 August 1889 in Chicago, Illinois and they had two sons John and Benjamin. Rice was divorced from his wife Minnie prior to 1920 and he never remarried.
Rice was a newspaperman in Chicago writing for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Herald American and was a literary adviser and editor for several Chicago-based publishing houses. In 1917, he designed Chicago's flag. He compiled a number of stories and anecdotes from newspapers around the country. One of his major anthology works was in collaboration with Clarence Darrow in the editing of Infidels and Heretics published in 1929. He was also an accomplished author in his own right, writing historical pageants, including one celebrating Illinois' centennial and another for the semi-centennial of Birmingham, Alabama He was also a poet and essayist. Rice died on 15 December 1939 in Chicago.
Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony as follows.
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