The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . rmstrong;the international fishery question; the bill to protect innocent purchasersof patented articles; on the bill granting the right of way through theIndian Territory to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company; onthe proper reference of questions relative to treatise; and on the transferof War Department records to the State Department building. Mr. Ricewas constantly in attendance upon the investigation of the Foreign AffairsCommittee into the Chili-Peru business, and his work is seen in the report
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . rmstrong;the international fishery question; the bill to protect innocent purchasersof patented articles; on the bill granting the right of way through theIndian Territory to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company; onthe proper reference of questions relative to treatise; and on the transferof War Department records to the State Department building. Mr. Ricewas constantly in attendance upon the investigation of the Foreign AffairsCommittee into the Chili-Peru business, and his work is seen in the report of that committee, although it is not directly credited to him. Mr. Rice was a warm personal friend and admirer of Mr. Blaine, andfelt a keen disappointment at his defeat for the office of president. Hadthe result been otherwise, there is no doubt that Mr. Rice would have takena prominent place in the administration. After his retirement from Congress, Mr. Rice took no public office, butdevoted himself to the duties of his profession until declining health com-. CHARLES A, RICHARDSON. The Worcester of 1898. 731 pelled him to cease active participation in business. In 1S92 he visitedEurope, an experience which gave him much satisfaction and enjoyment,particularly as he was enabled to visit the old home in England of theWhitney ancestors, from whom he descended, and to make clear and toverify the early records of The Whitney Family, a work into which heentered with delight. His carefully prepared Whitney Narrative wasprinted by his family after his decease. Mr. Rice was an overseer of Bowdoin College, a trustee of LeicesterAcademy, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Clark University, anda member of the American Antiquarian Society. He was a director andthe solicitor of the City National Bank for many years previous to hisdeath. His alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Doctor ofLaws in i8S6. In 1855 Mr. Rice married Cornelia A. Moen, who died in 1862. Two sonswere bor
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