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Seth H. Eice was bom in Steuben County, Sept. 

 9, 1819. He was the son of Jonas Rice, who came 

 from Massachusetts in the year 1811, and settled one 

 and a half miles north of Howard village, on the 

 farm now known as the Ferris farm. In 1825 he 

 removed to the farm near Towlesville, where he lived 

 until his death, and where the subject of this sketch 

 lived fifty-two years until his death, which occurred 

 Feb. 20, 1877. 



Mr. Rice was married Feb. 12, 1840, to Miss 

 Gracia Wheeler, who was born July 18, 1818. Her 

 parents, Jeremiah and Sarah, were among the early 

 settlers of Bath, her father being from Vermont, 

 and mother from Washington Co., N. Y. 



Their children are Lydia, wife of Wm. Willis, 

 who resides in the town of Howard ; S. L. Rice, a 

 farmer in Howard; Martin S., who died Nov. 5, 

 1869, aged eighteen years; and Floyd H., who re- 

 sides with his mother on the homestead. 



Mr. Rice was a man of much prominence, and a 

 citizen of integrity in all matters with which he was 

 connected. He was town assessor for six years, 

 justice of the peace some eight years, and associate 

 judge one year. He was a man of high moral prin- 

 ciples, a strong advocate of temperance, and a devout 

 Christian. 



During the past forty years, besides acquiring an 

 honest living for himself and family, he has accumu- 

 lated a fair property. 



His whole life has been an example of indus- 

 try, and all who were personally acquainted with 

 him recognized in him all that was manly, true, 

 and noble. 



He was a liberal contributor to church interests, 

 and to as great an extent as any man who ever lived 

 in the town of Howard, and for many years was an 

 ofl&cer of and prominent in the councils of the church 

 of his choice. 



