George O. Rice
George O. Rice, Kent, Ohio, was born in Brandon, Vt., April 22,1819, son of Hastings and Nancy A. (Bates) Rice, both of whom were natives of Massachusetts, and in later years residents of Brandon, Vt., where they were married and lived until death, and where our subject resided till thirty-five years of age. In 1850 he removed to Kent, Ohio, where he still resides, and for about ten years he carried on the harness trade, then for about ten years he was engaged in the general produce business, and for the last ten years he has been interested in the real estate and insurance business. Mr. Rice has been generally successful, and is possessed of a competency of this world's goods. At the age of twenty-one years our subject was married to Miss Joanna P., daughter of John H. Lincoln, of Pittsford, Vt., and by this union there were seven children, of whom none survive. Mrs. Rice died at Kent, Ohio, December 19, 1874, and Mr. Rice then married, June 19, 1877, Miss Helen K Parmelee, daughter of Luther H. Parmelee, of Kent. As a citizen Mr. Rice is enterprising and public-spirited, and has given his influence and means invariably and liberally to everything calculated to benefit the people and town in which he resides. He and his wife are members of the Congregational Church, in which he has served as Deacon and Sabbath-school Superintendent for eighteen years. His politics have been Whig, Abolition, Republican, and at this time he has a strong tendency toward Prohibition. Mr. Rice is now, and has been for the last eleven years, a Notary Public. He does a large part of the real estate and insurance business in Kent.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885