Background
Rice, Francis Edgar was born on February 19, 1886 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. Son of F. S. and Minnie H. Rice.
Rice, Francis Edgar was born on February 19, 1886 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. Son of F. S. and Minnie H. Rice.
Educated Wooster University. Washington University, 1910.
Began as draftsman Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Filtration Plant, 1906-1907. Rodman Oklahoma Valuation Survey, Frisco Railroad, June to September 1909. Draftsman Frisco Railroad, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1910-1915.
Draftsman G.C.&San Francisco Railroad, Galveston, Texas.
1915-1916; draftsman Texas Carnegie Steel Corporation, Galveston, April to June 1916. Chief draftsman Oklahoma Structural Steel Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1916-1917.
Construction engineering Peterson & Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1917-1918. With Philips Petroleum corporation since 1918, successively as chief engineer in charge of gasoline plant construction, general superintendent of gasoline division, vice president in charge gasoline manufacturer and gas since 1930, director President Indiana Natural Gas Company Home: Bartlesville, Oklahoma *.
Married Ida Z. Shafer, 1917. Children: Scott, Robert, Philip, Elizabeth.