Rice, Charles S.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Rice, Charles S., successful New Orleans attorney, was born at Frankfort, Maine, Dec. 20, 1837, and comes of an old Massachusetts family, being a son of Edward and Elvira (Sparrow) Rice. When the son was about 15 years of age his parents removed to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he thereafter attended Antioch college. At the beginning of the Civil war he enlisted as a private in the Union army, but was promoted to the rank of captain, and during the succeeding 4 years commanded the 17th Ohio battery, and served the cause of the Union. In 1863, as a member of his command, he went to New Orleans as a Federal soldier, and in the year 1865 he returned to New Orleans as a citizen. June 20, 1866 he was admitted as a member of the Louisiana bar, and from the latter date to the present time has actively practiced law in the City of New Orleans, where he has attained the position of a learned and able lawyer, zealous in the interest of his clients and deeply appreciative of the obligations of American citizenship, while enjoying the esteem of the people among whom he lives as a man of sterling qualities of character and a high sense of personal integrity. In 1869 Mr. Rice was married to Miss Josephine E. N. Hard, was born in the state of Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Rice have no living children.

Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 376. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.