Edmund Rice (1638) Association

12/14/2025

The Wells Fargo Express Company Office in Virginia City, Nevada. in 1866 during the Comstock Lode Era. In September 2026, the Annual Meeting of the Edmund Rice (1638) will be held in nearby Carson City focusing on Edmund Rice's descendants that contributed to the gold and silver mining in this era and the associated support industries in the 'rush.'

Wells, Fargo Express Office at Virginia City, Nevada 1866.

11/29/2025

A photo of Edmund Rice descendants, their spouses and people interested in the life & times of Edmund Rice who attended the 2025 Family Reunion held at Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury, MA on Sept. 26 & 27th. Visit us at: https://www.edmund-rice.org/

08/27/2025

https://sudburyweekly.com/thoughts-in-return-a-qa-with-the-edmund-rice-association/

Editor's Note: The Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Inc. is one of the oldest family associations in the country, tracing its roots back to Edmund Rice, who arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 and helped settle Sudbury. For nearly a century, the group has gathered for an annual reunion, b...

05/11/2025

This account of the early founding of public schools in Framingham was posted on the Massachusetts Founding Families page on FB. It mentions Rice's End and its schoolmaster Thomas Drury (1690-1783). Thomas Drury was the son of Rachael Rice (1664-1730), the daughter of Edmund's son Henry who had been the first settler in Rice's End. A focus on education appears to be strong among the early generations of the Rices.

04/15/2025

This canceled money order made out to Samuel L. Clemens dated April 1, 1864 in Carson City caught my eye by the issuing signature, "H.F. Rice" That would be Edmund Rice descendant Henry Freeman Rice, born 19 July 1818 in Conway, MA and appointed to being Superintendent of the Carson City mint by President U.S. Grant, engaged in silver mining, served as the President of the Carson City Town Council, and was superintendent of the Wells Fargo Express Office. He died in Stockton, CA on 28 Nov 1877 and was buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126309745/henry_freeman-rice

A check made out to Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) for $225 from April 1864.

The check was later found in Harry S. Truman’s filing cabinet.

Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

04/12/2025

Persis Rice Putnam (1737-1820) was the second wife of General Rufus Putnam (1738-1824), who served as an officer in the French and Indian War, was appointed by George Washington as Chief of Engineers responsible for design and build of fortifications in New England and the Hudson Valley. Putnam commanded two regiments in the Battle of Saratoga.

Rufus Putnam (April 9, 1738 – May 4, 1824) was an American military officer who fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. As an organizer of the Ohio Company of Associates, he was instrumental in the initial colonization by the United States of former Native Ameri...

04/08/2025

Alexander Hamilton Rice, Jr a patron of the Edmund Rice 1638 Association genealogical research must have been the inspiration for Indiana Jones. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/12LKJ4UuK3E/

Alexander H. Rice Jr., a Harvard anthropologist with a specialization in Arctic cultures, gained notoriety in 1935 for convincing his Inuit guides to bury him in snow for 24 hours to study traditional survival techniques—resulting in severe frostbite that required partial amputation of his fingers. His groundbreaking work included cataloging over 300 Inuit words for different types of snow and ice formations, challenging Western linguistic frameworks. Rice pioneered aerial photography in anthropological research by using a modified World War I reconnaissance plane to map previously undocumented indigenous settlements across Labrador, becoming the first to document these communities from above.

01/25/2025

The Old Post Rd. was near Edmund's second homestead.

The first colonial mail delivery occurred 352 years ago today, along this storied route.

Our first and second generation ancestors in 1673 would have been aware of this important event, although perhaps not immediately. As far we know, they had no business to transact in New York City (or New Amsterdam as it was known until 1664).

12/25/2024

Physicist Paul Rice Camp (1918-2012), an expert in ice crystal formation was a descendant of Edmund Rice.

Paul Rice Camp (December 29, 1919 – January 9, 2012) was an American academic and a professor of physics at the University of Maine. Camp's research focus lay in solid-state physics. He was particularly interested in the surface growth of ice.

08/15/2024

2024 REUNION and ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA
Friday September 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Registration required for bus tour and dinner.https://edmund-rice.org/2024ERAReunion.pdf
1:00 PM -- Bus tour departs from Wayside Inn, Sudbury MA
5:30 PM -- Social hour followed by dinner at Wayside Inn

Saturday September 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . .
8:00 AM -- Gather at First Parish of Sudbury Unitarian Church for coffee and pastries, meeting begins shortly after
9:00 AM -- Opening Remarks and brief discussion on the ERA
9:10 AM -- Edmund Rice 101
9:50 AM -- ERA database
10:30 AM -- What's Going on in England
11:10 AM -- Book about Rices
12:00 PM -- Lunch
1:00 PM -- Keynote Speaker Steven Greene - Railroads
2:00 PM -- Annual Meeting and Awards

Be sure to stay in touch via our newsletter (https://www.edmund-rice.org/newsletters.htm)

05/18/2024

Edmund Rice descendant Abbott Barnes Rice (1862-1926) was a Boston merchant who served for two terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and two terms in the state senate. One of his three sons, Willard, was an Olympic silver medalist with the USA hockey team in the 1924 Olympic Winter Games.

Abbott Barnes Rice (1862–1926) was a Boston merchant, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and a member of the Massachusetts Senate.[1]