Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice was an American author, lecturer, and poet from Hamilton, Ontario.
Background
Wallace Rice was born 10 November 1859, to John Asaph Rice (1829 – 1888) and Margaret Van Slyke (Culver) Rice (ca1829-1891) in Hamilton, Ontario, while his parents were temporarily residing in Canada. His father John Asaph Rice was a hotelier in Chicago, owner of the Tremont House and co-owner of the Sherman House Hotel, and noted collector of rare books, manuscripts, and Americana.
Education
As a boy, Rice attended grammar school of Racine College.
Career
After graduating from Harvard University in 1883, Rice was admitted to the bar in Chicago in November 1884. Rice was a newspaperman in Chicago writing for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Herald American and was a literary adviser and editor for several Chicago-based publishing houses. In 1917, he designed Chicago"s flag.
He compiled a number of stories and anecdotes from newspapers around the country.
One of his major anthology works was in collaboration with Clarence Darrow in the editing of Infidels and Heretics published in 1929. Rice died on 15 December 1939 in Chicago. and F.V. and F.V. Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony as follows.
Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice, son of John Asaph Rice (1829 – 1888) Anson Rice (1798 – 1875), son of Asaph Rice (1768 – 1856), son of Amos Rice (1743 – 1827), son of Jacob Rice (1707 – 1788), son of Jacob Rice (1660 – 1746), son of Edward Rice (1622 – 1712), son of Edmund Rice (1594 – 1663).