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BENJAMIN F. RICE
Vol. 3, p. 1280

A substantial member of the legal profession of Tulsa, Benjamin F.
Rice has been engaged in practice here since 1904, and as a member of
the firm or Rice & LYONS has been connected with much important
litigation. He was born in Washington, D. C., January 9, 1875, and is
a son of Hon. Benjamin F. and Nancy (RIDDELL) Rice.

Hon. Benjamin F. Rice was a native of the Empire State, where he was
born in 1828, and there received good educational advantages,
prepared for the law and was admitted to the bar. After several years
of practice there, he removed to Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky,
where he was married, and subsequently went to Washington, D. C.,
being also engaged in practice there. Prior to the Civil war he came
to Minnesota, and when the struggle between the North and the South
came on, entered a volunteer infantry regiment from Minnesto, and
rose therein to the rank of major. Some time after the close of the
war he went to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was engaged in
practice, and while residing there was elected to the United States
Sentate, in which he serviced one term. He then went to Washington,
D. C., and continued in practice there until 1905, when, while on a
visit to Tulsa, Oklahoma, he died, aged seventy-fe years. Mrs. Rice,
who was anative of Kentucky, died in 1888, when forty-seven years of
age. There were three children in the family: Laura, who is the wife
of Harry RIDDLE; Fannie, who is the wife of Lawrence HUNT and
Benjamin F.

Benjamin F. Rice received his early education in the public schools
of Washington, D. C., and after some further preparation under the
able preceptoship of his father entered the law department of the
University of West Virginia, from which institution he was graduated
in 1897 with his degree. He first came to the West in 1901, when he
located at Lawton, Oklahoma, and there continued in active practice
until coming to Tulsa in 1904. Here he was engaged in practice alone
for several years, when the firm of Rice & Lyons was formed, this
being now considered one of the strong and successful legal
combinations of the state. In political matters, Mr. Rice is a
republican, but is not a politician, preferring to give his undivided
attention to the demands of practice.

On May 19, 1903, Mr. Rice was united in marriage with Miss Mabel
PAINTER, of Guthrie, Oklahoma.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Marti Graham, January 3, 1999.