Charles Francis Rice

Charles Francis Rice (April 14, 1851–1901 or 1927)^[1] was a Methodist minister.

He was born in the parsonage of the Walnut Street Church in Chelsea, Massachusetts to Rev. William Rice and Catherine Laura North. His older brother was William North Rice. He attended Springfield High School and Wesleyan University, graduating with honor in 1872. He also taught classics at both institutions. ^[2] He married Miriam Owen Jacobs in 1875. She was the daughter of Dr. Horace Jacobs of Springfield, and was educated at Vassar College. They had three children, one of whom was Paul North Rice.

C. F. Rice served as pastor at Appleton church, Neponset, Boston; Wesley chapel, Salem, MA; Webster, MA, St. Paul's, Lowell, MA, and Leominster, MA. In 1893, he became minister at Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church, now Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church in Cambridge, MA.^[2] He was a member of the New England Conference.^[3] He wrote History of Methodism in Webster, Mass., printed in the Webster Times in 1884. He served on the visiting committee of the Boston University School of Theology.

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