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William Marsh Rice was born on March 14, 1816 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the third of ten children of David and Patty (née Hall) Rice.
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William Marsh Rice was born on March 14, 1816 in Springfield, Massachusetts, the third of ten children of David and Patty (née Hall) Rice.
At the age of fifteen he left school to become a clerk in a village store. On his twenty-first birthday he had saved enough money to buy a store from its proprietor. After the panic of 1837, however, times were hard and he decided to move to Houston, Texas, where with a small stock of goods he arrived in the autumn of 1838.
Houston was then only a straggling village, but it was connected with the port of Galveston by a navigable bayou, and was accordingly the natural rendezvous for farmers who sometimes drove their wagons called "schooners" two or even three hundred miles to find a market for their produce. The wagons returned loaded with imported goods to serve until the next visit. To these visitors the merchant was importer, exporter, and banker. In this situation, by a remarkable combination of energy, thrift, and Yankee shrewdness, Rice soon rose from a clerkship in a mercantile establishment to be senior partner in the firm of Rice & Nichols, "Exporters, Importers and Wholesale Grocers, of Houston, " which was favorably known from the Gulf to the Red River. As his business increased, he became interested in other enterprises - a stage line to Austin, a railroad to Dallas - and, though he preferred other investments, was frequently compelled to accept land in payment for debts.
At the time of his death he was the owner of many thousands of acres in Texas and Louisiana, and his whole estate was estimated to be worth eight million dollars. In his prosperity, the rising merchant did not forget his family. He was joined first by his elder brother, David, who did not prove successful, and later, in 1850, by a younger brother, Frederick A. Rice, a genial person who became a prosperous banker and left a large family, most of whom later became prominent in the affairs of Houston.
His reputation for eccentricity was increased by the humorous skepticism with which he tended to regard the theological view of his neighbors.
He was a Unionist, and at the outbreak of the Civil War withdrew to Matamoras, Mexico, where he continued, in spite of the blockade, to do business as an exporter and importer. At the end of the war he moved to New York where he acted for some years as the financial and purchasing agent for the Houston & Texas Central Railroad, of which he had been one of the builders. During this period he lived on his farm at Dunellen, New Jersey, removing after the death of his wife in 1896 to an apartment on Madison Avenue. In his last years, his only companion was his valet, Charles F. Jones. In the meantime he had been considering a suitable memorial, and in 1891, on the occasion of a visit to Houston, he had made definite plans for an educational institution to be opened after his death.
In his will, executed in 1896, he made the foundation, to which he had already contributed preliminary gifts, the chief beneficiary of his estate. His death in 1900 was followed by sensational disclosures. The valet, Jones, confessed that he had entered into a plot including extensive forgeries, among them a new will, for the benefit of a lawyer named Albert T. Patrick. From forgery the conspirators had finally gone the length of murder. Patrick, as the principal in this plot, was convicted and sentenced to death, but supported by large means, secured a series of reprieves and, finally, in 1912, a full pardon. In the same year the Rice Institute, with an endowment conservatively estimated at ten million dollars, had opened its doors to its first students.
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Though Rice was twice married - first in 1850 to Margaret Bremond, the daughter of an early railroad builder, who died in 1863, and on June 26, 1867, to a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth (Baldwin) Brown, whose sister had married his brother - he had no children by either marriage.
