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2 unusual facts about William B. Rice


William B. Rice

In 1894, Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge appointed him to the governor's council of business advisers and he was a major benefactor of the Quincy City Hospital.

He also was responsible for developing international sales by establishing offices in London, Berlin, and Manila.


Alexander Rice

Alexander H. Rice (1818–1895), American politician and businessman from Massachusetts

Alexander H. Rice, Jr. (1875–1956), American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer

Alfred B. Fitt

His second wife, born Lois Dickson (b. 1933), married Fitt after divorcing Emmett J. Rice, making Fitt the stepfather of Susan Rice.

Amalgamated Sugar Company

Directors included Charles Nibley, William Lewis, Abraham O. Woodruff, Rudger Clawson, William B. Preston, and Joseph Howell, with Charles Nibley as president, Lewis as vice president, and Charles W. Nibley Jr. as secretary.

Ananias Davisson

Composer and publisher William B. Blake said it was "a book characteristic of that period, abounding in minor tunes."

Battle of Wilmington

Under the direction of Lt. Commander William B. Cushing the Federal Navy constructed a Quaker (or fake) monitor to trick the Rebels into detonating their water mines to make way for Porter's gunboats.

Benjamin F. Rice

He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 19, 1905, and was buried Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa.

Bonnor

William B. Bonnor (born 1920), mathematician and gravitation physicist

Cape Mayo

It was discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins on a flight of December 20, 1928, and named by him for William B. Mayo of the Ford Motor Company.

Carl A. Roles

A Thoroughbred trainer and owner, he trained for prominent stable owners such as Ada L. Rice of Chicago and Hollywood film studio boss, Louis B. Mayer.

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal

In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).

Cronyn

William B. Cronyn House, also known as the House at 271 Ninth Street, is a historic home located in Brooklyn, New York, New York

D.C. Rice

Paul Oliver, Songsters and Saints : Vocal Traditions on Race Records, Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Edmund W. Wells

He was appointed to the newly created 4th district by President Benjamin Harrison and his nomination was supported by U.S. Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, Arizona Territorial Governors Richard C. McCormick, Anson P. K. Safford, and Lewis Wolfley, Arizona Territorial Justices Charles G. W. French and William W. Porter, Arizona Territorial Secretary John J. Gosper, and Oakes Murphy.

Engineers Club of Dayton

Among the distinguished guests present at the event were Governor James M. Cox, Major J.G. Vincent and William B. Mayo.

Finnegan Foundation

Founders of the foundation included: Pittsburgh Mayor Joe Barr, Commonwealth Judge Genevieve Blatt, Democratic National Committeewoman Louise M. John, Pennsylvania Gov. David Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador Matthew H. McCloskey II, U.S. Ambassador John Rice, and Pennsylvania State Treasurer Grace M. Sloan.

Frank Morey

His election in 1876 was contested and he lost his seat in June of that year to Democrat William B. Spencer.

Frank P. Rice

He was instrumental in obtaining land for the right-of-way for extension of the Richmond and Danville Railroad and Georgia Pacific Railway.

George B. Lyle

Roy LeCraw had fought a tough campaign against incumbent William Hartsfield and won on a slim margin but just a few months after taking office, he joined the army leaving mayor pro-tem Lyle until new elections could be held.

George B. Throop

After their father's death, their mother married George W. Hatch, and among their children were Congressman Israel T. Hatch (1808–1875) and Eliza Hatch (1800–1885) who married first Congressman Gershom Powers (1789–1831) and then Judge William B. Rochester (1789–1838).

Henry B. Clarke House

Clarke House may have been modeled on the home of William B. Ogden.

Joan Mahoney

Born in New York City, Joan Mahoney is the daughter of writer William B. Mahoney.

John C. Rice

John C. Rice (ca. 1858, Sullivan County, New York – June 5, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American born Broadway stage actor who is credited with performing the first onscreen kiss with May Irwin in 1896 for the Thomas Edison film company film The Kiss.

John R. Rice

In July 1932, Rice held an open-air evangelistic campaign in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas and hundreds made professions of faith.

LaFayette L. Patterson

Patterson was elected as a Democrat to the 70th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William B. Bowling.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Roane County, Tennessee

Bought in 1936 by William B. Ladd, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in 1946

Ponce High School

In that sense, these are the most representative examples of school building ideas being developed at the time in the United States by architects of renown, such as Haussander and Perkins of Chicago, Snyder of New York, Cooper of Boston and, especially, William B. Ittner of St. Louis.

Robert Ayres Barnet

It was performed by the "Boston Cadets, who always present Barnet's pieces before they are staged professionally. The new piece is ... a fairy Mother Goose burlesque. The music is by A.B. Sloane. ... Augustus Pitou, Klaw & Erlanger, E.E. Rice, and other prominent gentlemen" attended.

Travis Jackson

He was the only child of William Jackson, a wholesale grocer, and his wife, Etta, who named their son after William B. Travis, a Lieutenant Colonel who died at the Battle of the Alamo.

Widnall

William B. Widnall (1906–1983), member of the United States House of Representatives for 24 years representing the 7th district of New Jersey

William B. Ault

On 5 August 1939, less than a month before the start of World War II in Poland, Ault assumed command of the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Kansas City, Kansas, a billet in which he served into 1941.

William B. Bate

Bate was born in Bledsoe's Lick (now Castalian Springs) in Sumner County, Tennessee, the son of James H. Bate and Amanda Weatherred Bate.

William B. Baugh

Born July 7, 1930, in McKinney, Kentucky, William Bernard Baugh was employed by Harrison Shoe Corporation before his enlistment in the Marine Corps on January 23, 1948, at the age of 17.

William B. Bowling

He was reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from December 14, 1920, until his resignation effective August 16, 1928, having been appointed judge for the fifth judicial circuit of Alabama, in which capacity he served until his death.

William B. Bryant

In May 1972, he threw out the results of the 1969 United Mine Workers of America union elections, after allegations of fraud and the murder of losing candidate Joseph Yablonski.

William B. Cassel

Cassel was appointed to the court on April 26, 2012 by Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, filling a position made vacant by the appointment of John M. Gerrard to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.

William B. Cassel is a judge of the Nebraska Supreme Court, representing Nebraska's Third Judicial District.

William B. Charles

Charles was elected as a Republican to the 64th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1915, to March 3, 1917.

William B. Francis

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress.

William B. Hanna

At the age of four, he relocated with his family to Kansas City, Missouri.

William B. Meeks, Jr

In 1990, following court hearings, the original PAMS corporation, including all its copyrights, was purchased by JAM Creative Productions in Dallas.

William B. Murphy

Born in Mexia, a small city in Central Texas' Limestone County, William B. Murphy was 41 when his name first appeared in film credits as co-editor (with Richard Cahoon) of the independently-produced 1949 B-western, Massacre River, released by United Artists.

William B. Quandt

He is married to the writer Helena Cobban, has one daughter and two stepchildren, and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

William B. Rochester

Rochester was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 17th, and re-elected as a Crawford Democratic-Republican to the 18th United States Congress, holding office from December 3, 1821, to April 21, 1823 when he resigned upon his appointment as Judge of the Eight Circuit Court.

William B. Van Ingen

They are mounted in the Panama Canal Administration Building in Balboa, Panama.

William Lawlor

William B. Lawlor, educator and member of the Los Angeles, California, Common Council

William Mahoney

William B. Mahoney (1912–2004), U.S. journalist and writer who had a successful late-in-life second career as a substance-abuse counselor

William Thomas Councilman

In 1916, he went with the Rice Expedition, led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., to the Amazon and Brazil.

William W. Rice

Rice was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887).

William Washburn

William B. Washburn (1820–1887), American politician representing Massachusetts


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