List of Edmund Rice (1638) descendants

Title page to Andrew Henshaw Ward's A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: The Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, financed by members of the Rice family and published in 1858.

This is a category of descendants of Edmund Rice (1638) who immigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638 with his kin and became a founder of both Sudbury, Massachusetts and Marlborough, Massachusetts.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

A

• Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagyappony (1915-2002), Queen of Albania
• Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (1953 - ), actor and musician, son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
• Lucie Désirée Arnaz (1951 - ), entertainer and producer; daughter of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

B

• Lucille Désirée Ball (1911-1989), actress, comedienne, television personality, and studio executive Desilu Productions
• Donald Clinton Barton (1889-1939), geophysicist and pioneering petroleum geologist
• George Hunt Barton (1852-1933), geologist, educator, explorer of Greenland with Robert E. Peary
• Asa Brigham (1788–1844), signer of Texas Declaration of Independence, Texas treasurer, Austin mayor
• Carl Campbell Brigham (1890–1943), controversial pioneer of psychometrics, known for creating the Scholastic Aptitude Test
• Elbert Sidney Brigham (1877–1962), U.S. Congressman from Vermont
• Elijah Brigham (1751–1816), Massachusetts state representative and state senator; U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts.
• Mary Ann Brigham (1829–1889), American educator and 8th President (President Elect) of Mount Holyoke College
• Robert Breck Brigham (1826–1900), philanthropist endowing the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston.
• Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), Governor of Georgia during the U.S. Civil War and U.S. Senator from Georgia
• Joseph Mackey Brown (1851-1932), Two non-consecutive term governor of Georgia implicated in the lynching of Leo Frank; son of Joseph E. Brown
• Catharinus Putnam Buckingham (1808-1888), professor of mathematics and brigadier general in Union Army; grandson of Rufus Putnam
• Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), author and creator of the Tarzan character
• John Coleman Burroughs (1913–1979), book illustrator and son of Edgar Rice Burroughs

C

• George Rice Carpenter (1863–1909), educator and literary scholar
• Margaret Seymour Carpenter (1893-1987), author of the novel Experiment Perilous
• Herman Churchill (1869–1941), educator, genealogist and historian
• Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933), thirtieth President of the United States
• Charles Austin Coolidge (1844–1926), brigadier general
• John Coolidge (1906–2000), businessman & philanthropist from Plymouth Notch, Vermont and son of President Coolidge

D

• Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887), health care and social reformer
• Allen Stuart Drury (1918–1998), journalist, and winner of the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Advise and Consent
• Alexander Greer Drury (1844–1929), physician, medical educator and medical historian
• Asa Drury (1801–1870), educator and Baptist minister best known as an antebellum abolitionist
• Thomas Drury (1668-1723), Massachusetts colonial legislator

E

• Charles Eliot (1859-1897), American landscape architect and pioneer of regional planning; son of Charles W. Eliot
• Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), 21st President of Harvard University
• Samuel Atkins Eliot II (1862-1950), Unitarian minister and president of the American Unitarian Association; son of Charles W. Eliot
• Samuel Atkins Eliot, Jr. (1893-1984), American novelist; son of Samuel Atkins Eliot II and grandson of Charles W. Eliot
• Theodore Lyman Eliot, Jr. (b. 1928), U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan 1973-1978; grandson of Samuel Atkins Eliot II
• Thomas Hopkinson Eliot (1907-1991), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts; son of Samuel Atkins Eliot II
• Alexander Rice Esty (1826–1881), 19th century New England architect
• Constantine Canaris Esty (1824-1912), state representative, state senator and U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts.

H

• Erastus Otis Haven (1820-1881), Methodist bishop, Massachusetts state senator, and president of three major universities
• John James Hollister, Jr. (1901–1961) California state senator and grandson of William Welles Hollister
• William Welles Hollister (1818–1886) a California rancher and entrepreneur, namesake of Hollister, California
• Arthur Otis Howe (1871-1951), Vermont state representative and senator
• Elias Howe (1819–1867), inventor of the first practical sewing machine
• Frank Edmund Howe (1870-1953), Vermont state legislator, House speaker, and Vermont lieutenant governor
• Gardner Howe (1759-1854), Vermont state legislator
• Gilman Bigelow Howe (1850–1933), genealogist and president of the National Genealogical Society
• Jonas Howe (1786-1865), Massachusetts state legislator
• Jonas Holland Howe (1821-1898), abolitionist, artist, and Minnesota state legislator
• Marshall Otis Howe (1832-1919), Vermont state legislator
• Simon Herbert Howe (1835-1911), businessman, Massachusetts state legislator and first mayor of Marlborough
• Levi Hubbard (1762–1836), Massachusetts state legislator, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (Maine District)

I

• Charles Phillip Ingalls (1836–1902), American pioneer whose life was depicted in the Little House books
• James Harvey Irvine (1867–1947), prominent landowner in Orange County, California; Irvine Ranch

K

• Charles Reuben Keyes (1871–1951), educator, archaeologist and German scholar
• Margaret Naumann Keyes (1918 - ), educator and heritage conservation scholar
• David Sjodahl King (1917–2009), U.S. Congressman from Utah, ambassador
• William Henry King (1863–1949), U.S. Congressman and Senator from Utah

L

• Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), writer, political theorist & co-founder of the modern American libertarian movement
• Mary Ashton (Rice) Livermore (1820–1905), American abolitionist, social activist, and author.

M

• Catherine Ann Keyes Miller (1905–1978), music historian, archivist, and educator

O

• Culbert Levy Olson (1876-1962), California governor 1939-43; first cousin to U.S. Senator William H. King

P

• Frank Charles Partridge (1861–1943), lawyer, diplomat, and U.S. Senator from Vermont
• William Lyon Phelps (1865-1945), author, radio program host, professor of English literature at Yale University
• Orlando Brunson Potter (1823-1894). businessman, U.S. Congressman from New York

R

• Abbott Barnes Rice (1862–1926), businessman and Massachusetts state legislator
• Alexander Hamilton Rice (1818–1895), industrialist, Boston mayor, Massachusetts governor, and U.S. Congressman
• Alexander Hamilton Rice, Jr. (1875–1956), physician, geographer and explorer
• Alexandrea Kawisenhawe Rice (1972 - ), contemporary Canadian actress from the Kahnawake Mohawk nation
• Americus Vespucius Rice (1835–1904), banker, brigadier general, U.S. Congressman from Ohio
• Andrew Eliot Rice (1922-2010), American political scientist, founder of Peace Corps and the Society for International Development
• Arthur Wallace Rice (1869-1938), architect from Boston and partner in Parker, Thomas & Rice
• Caleb Rice (1792–1873), attorney; first president of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts
• Charles Rice (1787–1863), brigadier general of the Massachusetts Militia and state representative
• Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889), publisher, editor and journalist
• Edmund Rice (1819–1889), U.S. Congressman from Minnesota
• Edmund Rice (1842–1906), brigadier general and Medal of Honor awardee
• Edward Everett Rice (1847–1924), composer and musical theater producer
• Edward Loranus Rice (1871–1960), biologist and university administrator
• Eustace Bond Rice (1871-1938) professor of music theory at New England Conservatory
• Franklin Pierce Rice (1852–1919), publisher, historian and antiquarian
• George Walter Rice (1855–1884), pioneering Canadian photographer and arctic explorer
• George Washington Rice (1823–1856), businessman and founder of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
• Harvey Rice (1800–1891), lawyer, publisher, author and Ohio state legislator
• Henry Rice (1786–1867), U.S. military officer, merchant and Massachusetts state legislator
• Henry Mower Rice (1816–1894), U.S. Senator from Minnesota, prominent in its statehood
• Jacob Rice (1787-1879), New Hampshire state legislator
• James Clay Rice (1828–1864), educator, lawyer and brigadier general
• James Stephen Rice (1846–1939), businessman, rancher & early resident of Tustin, California
• Joel Taylor Rice (aka Joel Ryce-Menuhin), (1933–1998) pianist and Jungian psychologist
• John Asaph Rice (1829-1888), prominent Chicago hotelier & book collector, father of Wallace Rice
• Jonas Rice (1672–1753), grandson of Edmund; first permanent English American settler and founder of Worcester, Massachusetts
• Joseph Rice (1638-1711), son of Edmund, Member of the Massachusetts General Court in 1683 and 1698
• Lawrence Bridges Rice (1898–1992), architect and tennis champion
• Leon Scott Rice (1958- ), major general, U.S. Air Force; commander of Massachusetts Air National Guard and Massachusetts National Guard
• Luther Rice (1783–1836), Baptist minister, missionary to India, and educator; founder of George Washington University
• Michael Alan Rice (1955- ), biologist, Rhode Island state legislator
• Ora Ray Rice (1885-1966), dentist, Wisconsin state legislator, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly 1951-54
• Paul North Rice (1888-1967), librarian, reference department director of the New York Public Library
• Percy Fitch Rice (1882–1954), inventor and businessman
• Richard Henry Rice (1863–1922), mechanical engineer and inventor
• Robert Vernon Rice (1924- ), biochemist and educator
• Thomas Rice (1654-1747), grandson of Edmund; Massachusetts colonial legislator and a founder of Westborough, Massachusetts
• Thomas Rice (1734-1812), Massachusetts state legislator, judge, Federalist Party politician
• Thomas Rice (1768–1854), Massachusetts state legislator, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (Maine district)
• Victor Moreau Rice (1818-1869), New York State legislator, educator, newspaperman, banker and insurance company executive.
• Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice (1859–1939), author, poet and designer of the Chicago flag
• Willard Wadsworth Rice (1895–1967), silver medalist U.S. hockey player in the 1924 Winter Olympics
• William Abbott Rice (1912–1991), geologist and university professor
• William Ball Rice (1840–1909), industrialist and president of Rice & Hutchins, Inc.
• William North Rice (1845–1928), geologist, Methodist minister and university administrator
• William Whitney Rice (1826–1896), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
• George Edmund Royce (1829–1903), businessman and state senator from Vermont

S

• Joan Irvine Smith (1933- ), businesswoman and philanthropist prominent in Orange County, California.

U

• William Upham (1791–1853), Vermont state legislator and U.S. Senator from Vermont

W

• Gideon Welles (1802–1878), Secretary of the Navy during the Lincoln and Andrew Johnson administrations.
• Almanzo James Wilder (1857–1949), husband of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder and father of writer Rose Wilder Lane
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), author of Little House on the Prairie

Z

• Leka Zogu (1939-2011), Crown Prince of Albania
• Leka Zogu II (b. 1982), pretender to Albanian throne

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