Yolo County
Biographies
JOHN HENRY RICE
Among
the former residents of the Sacramento Valley who stood as worthy types of the
world’s workers, performing well the duties that fell to them and contributing
to the development and the welfare of their respective communities, the late
John H. Rice held a notable place in public confidence and esteem. He was a man of sterling qualities and high
business and civil ideals and was to a marked degree influential in the
financial circles of this section of the state.
Mr. Rice was a native son of Yolo County, of which his parents were
pioneers. Left an orphan when a child,
he was reared by an aunt in Dixon, Solano County, this state, and received his
educational training in the public schools of that locality. He then became identified with the banking
business in Dixon, beginning at the very bottom, but by close and intelligent
attention to his duties, was advanced step by step through the various positions
until he became manager of the Bank of Dixon.
For thirty-six years he was actively engaged in banking, winning a wide
reputation as a man of clearheaded and reliable judgment, and was known as one
of Dixon’s most dependable citizens.
Some years prior to his death, he retired from active business because
of ill health and spent his remaining days on the Scott Ranch, near Madison,
Yolo County, the former home of his wife.
Mr.
Rice was united in marriage to Miss Elma S. Scott and they became the parents
of four children, Scott McCune; Carroll M., of Chico, Butte County; Dr. Floyd
B., of Watsonville, Santa Cruz County; and Mrs. Elma Schlote. Mr. Rice was greatly interested in the
welfare of his community, giving active and effective support to every movement
for the betterment of the town and county in which he lived, and served for a
number of years as a member of the board of high school trustees of Dixon. He was a member of the Masonic order, in
which he attained the rank of Knight Templar; and he belonged to Ben Ali Temple
of the Mystic Shrine at Sacramento, and other organizations in his
locality. His death, which occurred
December 18, 1923, was greatly regretted throughout the wide range of his
acquaintance, for he was a man of character and stability, genuine and sincere
in all of life’s relations and had developed many warm and lasting friendships
among those who had come in contact with him in either a business or social
way.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 366-367. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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