Paul North Rice

Paul North Rice (1888–1967) was an American librarian. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts to Charles Francis Rice and Miriam Owen Jacobs. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1910, where he was a member of the Eclectic Society. He then studied at the New York State Library School.^[1] He worked at the New York Public Library starting in 1914, and was chief of the Preparation division from 1920-1927.^[2] He was president of the Dayton Public Library from 1927-1936. He then served as President of New York University Libraries.^[3] He was director of the reference department of the New York Public Library from 1937-1953, and president of the American Library Association from 1947-48. He served as director of the Wesleyan University Library from 1953-1956.^[4]

Genealogy

Paul North Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows:^[5][6]

• Paul North Rice, son of

• Charles Francis Rice (1851–1927), son of

• William Rice (1821 – ca1890), son of

• William Rice (1788–1863),^[7] son of
• Nathan Rice (1760–1838), son of
• John Rice (1704–1771), son of

• Ephraim Rice (1665–1732), son of
• Thomas Rice (1625–1681), son of

• Edmund Rice (1594–1663)

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