Rice, John H. (1), a Presbyterian minister, was born at Sharon, N. Y., March 9, 1800. He received a good academical education, studied tlieology in Auburn Seminary, N. Y., was licensed and ordained in 1832, and subsequently became pastor of the following churches: Cambria, N. Y.; Beamsville and Grimsby, C. W.; Rut- land, N.Y.; Barton, C.W.; Grand Haven, Mich.; Gowan- da and Sheridan, N. Y. ; Wattsburg and Wayne, Pa. ; Cly- mer, N. Y. ; Middlebrook and Green, Pa. He died in the latter place, June 21, 1858. JVIr. Rice was at one time an agent for the American Tract Society. He was a faith- ful laborer and devoted servant of Christ. See Wilson, Pregh. I/igt. A Inuimic, 1860, p. 122. (J. L. S.)
Rice, John H. (2), a minister of the IMethodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Middle Tennessee, Dec. 26, 1826. He professed religion and joined the Methodist Episcopal Cinirch in 1839. He was admit- ted on trial into the Arkansas Conference Nov. 9, 1849, ordained deacon Nov. 9, 1851, and elder Nov. 20, 1853. He continued in active service until 1857, when he lo- cated. He joined the Confederate army in 1863, was re- admitted into the Arkansas Conference Oct. 21, 1863, and appointed chaplain of Colonel Shaver's regiment. He was killed in a skirmish with United States troops, Marcli 25, 1864. For many years he had been a faith- ful minister, an able defender of the doctrines of his Church, and a bold dispenser of truth. See Afiuii/fK of Annual Confmnces, M. K. Church, South, 1864, p. 529.
Rice, John Holt, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was born near New London, Bcilford County, Va., Nov. 28, 1777. He became tutor in Hampden Sidney Col- lege, Va., in October, 1796, ami on Sept. 12, 1803, was licensed to preach. On Sept. 29, 1804, lie was ordained and installed pastor of the church at Club Creek, still
retaining his connection with the college until the lat- ter end of tiie year, wdien lie resigned his tutorship and removed to a small farm in Charlotte County. Here, his salary being insulKcient, he also opened a school, and thus continued until 1812, when he became pastor of jNIason's Hall, Richmond, Va. In May, 1816, lie came to New York as a representative of the Bible Society of Virginia at tiie formation of the American Bible Socie- ty. He afterwards attended the meeting of the (Jeii- eral Assembly at Philadeljihia, where he was often sent again as u delegate from his presbytery. He was elect- ed president of the College of New Jersey Sept. 26, 1822, as well as professor in the Union Theological Sem- inary in Prince Edward County, Va., on Nov. 16 of the same year: he only accepted the latter and resigned his pastoral charge. He entered upon his professor- ship Jan. 1, 1824. In May, 1830, he came to New York, where he delivered one of the series of the jMurra}' Street Lectures. After this his health gradually de- clined until his death, Sept. 3, 1831. Dr. Rice started, in 1815, and published for a time the Christian Monitor, the first weekly religious newspaper which appeared in Richmond. In January, 1818. he published the first number of the Vinjiniu Kram/eliad and Literari/ Mag- azine, which he continued till 1829. His other writings are, a memoir of S. Davies and of Rev. J. B. Taylor; also a number of occasional sermons, addresses, and pamphlets, among which w^e will notice his Historical and Philosophical Considerations on Reliyion, addressed to James Madison, Esq. (the ex-president), which, after being first published as successive articles in the South- ern Reliaious Telegraph in 1830, appeared in a small volume in 1832. See Sprague, Annals of the Ainer. Pulpit, iv, 325.
Rice, John Jay, a Presbyterian minister, was the son of (iabriel and Phebe (Garrard) Rice, and brother of Rev. Nathan L. Rice, D.D. He was born in Garrard County, Ky., Sept. 7, 1804, and received his early educa- tion wholly in the country schools in the neighborhood of his father's residence. At the age of fourteen he en- tered Centre College at Danville, Ky., but, after staying a short time, he returned home. Subsequently he again entered Centre College and remained two years, but di<l not graduate. While at college he and his brother Nathan were both converted during a glorious revival which occurred in Danville. Soon after, having de- voted himself to the work of the ministry, he began to study theology under Rev. James C. Barnes, a widely known pastor and preacherof Kentucky, at the same time laboring in Mr. Barnes's and neighboring churches. He was licensed by the Transylvania Presbytery, April 2, 1827, but soon became convinced that he was not so well furnished as to make full proof of his ministry, and went as a licentiate to Princeton Theological Semina- ry, where he studied two years, 1829-31. While a student in the seminary he resided at Dutch Neck, about four miles south of Princeton, and statedly sup- plied the Church at that place, with frequent help from his brother Nathan. The preaching of the two broth- ers made a deep impression upon the people of Dutch Neck. Many were liopefulh' converted. The broth- ers were regarded with strong affection, and their names are held in tender and loving remembrance to this day among the people of the region. Having returned to Kentucky at the end of his second year in the semina- ry, Mr. Rice was ordained April 5, 1833, by the Presby- tery of Ebenezer, and soon became widely popular as a preacher. In the years 1832-34 lie preached as stated supply to the ('iiiirch at Jlillersliurg, Ky., and from 1834-35 at Maysvillc, Ky. But, alas! the hand of a fatal pulmonary disease was soon laid upon the zealous and eloquent preacher. After aiding his brother Na- than for two or three years in editing a religious paper which the latter had started, he felt constrained to try a milder climate, and went to Florida. There, from Tal- lahassee as a centre, he travelled mudi in Central Flori- da, and his soul was aroused at sight of the ignorance