Biographical record; this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Houghton, Baraga and Marquette Counties, Michigan .. . to Minnie AbbieStrong, who was born at Vicksburg. Michigan, and was a daughter of Am-brose E. and Abbie (Sawyer) Strong. Mrs. Waldo died January 30, 1903,at the age of t>7 years, being the mother of three children, viz: Rollin, de-ceased; Herbert Strong; and Ruth Genevieve. Professor Waldo is a mem-ber of the Methodist Church. He is a Republican in politics, and during hisresidence at Albion served three years as one of the city aldermen. Heis connect
Biographical record; this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Houghton, Baraga and Marquette Counties, Michigan .. . to Minnie AbbieStrong, who was born at Vicksburg. Michigan, and was a daughter of Am-brose E. and Abbie (Sawyer) Strong. Mrs. Waldo died January 30, 1903,at the age of t>7 years, being the mother of three children, viz: Rollin, de-ceased; Herbert Strong; and Ruth Genevieve. Professor Waldo is a mem-ber of the Methodist Church. He is a Republican in politics, and during hisresidence at Albion served three years as one of the city aldermen. Heis connected with a number of organizations, all of them being of an educa-tional or literary character, viz: the college fraternity of Sigma Chi; theAmerican Historical Association; Michigan Political Science Association;and the National Educational Association. In 1890 he was honored byAlbion College with the degree of A. M. WILLIAM G. RICE. William G. Rice, a citizen of Houghton, Houghton County, Mich-igan, a lawyer by profession and one of the most progressive and enter-prising men of the locality, was born at Charlotte, Michigan, March 26,. FRANCIS M. MOORE. HOUGHTON, BARAGA AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES 327 1870, and in early life removed to Houghton with his parents. He is a sonof John W. Rice, a pioneer of the count)-, who died in 1885, aged 54 \V. Rice was for eight years treasurer of Houghton County, and wasknown far and wide as a man of absolute integrity and high moral char-acter. Few men of Houghton County were better known or more thor-oughly respected for their admirable qualities. One brother of our subject,John H. Rice, is prominent in financial circles and is vice-president of theNational Bank of Houghton. After graduating from the law department of Northwestern Universityat Chicago, Illinois, William G. Rice spent five years in the office of ex-SenatorLyman Trumbull, in that city. In 1897 he located in Houghton, Michigan,and entered upon the practice of law, formin
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