. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. idk^ i^. /^V Seth H. Eice was bom in Steuben County, Sept. 9, 1819. He was the son of Jonas Rice, who came from Massachusetts in the year 1811, and settled one and a half miles north of Howard village, on the farm now known as the Ferris farm. In 1825 he removed to the farm near Towlesville, where he lived until his death, and where the subject of this sketch lived fifty-two years until his death
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. idk^ i^. /^V Seth H. Eice was bom in Steuben County, Sept. 9, 1819. He was the son of Jonas Rice, who came from Massachusetts in the year 1811, and settled one and a half miles north of Howard village, on the farm now known as the Ferris farm. In 1825 he removed to the farm near Towlesville, where he lived until his death, and where the subject of this sketch lived fifty-two years until his death, which occurred Feb. 20, 1877. Mr. Rice was married Feb. 12, 1840, to Miss Gracia Wheeler, who was born July 18, 1818. Her parents, Jeremiah and Sarah, were among the early settlers of Bath, her father being from Vermont, and mother from Washington Co., N. Y. Their children are Lydia, wife of Wm. Willis, who resides in the town of Howard; S. L. Rice, a farmer in Howard; Martin S., who died Nov. 5, 1869, aged eighteen years; and Floyd H., who re- sides with his mother on the homestead. Mr. Rice was a man of much prominence, and a citizen of integrity in all matters with which he was connected. He was town assessor for six years, justice of the peace some eight years, and associate judge one year. He was a man of high moral prin- ciples, a strong advocate of temperance, and a devout Christian. During the past forty years, besides acquiring an honest living for himself and family, he has accumu- lated a fair property. His whole life has been an example of indus- try, and all who were personally acquainted with him recognized in him all that was manly, true, and noble. He was a liberal contributor to church interests, and to as great an extent as any man who ever lived in the town of Howard, and for many years was an ofl&cer of and prominent in the councils of the church of his Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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