List of Edmund Rice (colonist) descendants explained

This is a list of descendants of Edmund Rice, a noted colonial settler.

In 1638, Rice immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with his kin, where he became a founder of both Sudbury, Massachusetts, and Marlborough, Massachusetts.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

A

• Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagyappony (1915–2002), Queen of Albania
• Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (born 1953), actor and musician, son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
• Lucie Désirée Arnaz (born 1951), entertainer and producer; daughter of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

B

• Frederick Henry Ball (1915–2007), movie studio executive, actor, and brother of comedian Lucille Ball.
• Lucille Désirée Ball (1911–1989), actress, comedian, television personality, and studio executive Desilu Productions
• Donald Clinton Barton (1889–1939), geophysicist and pioneering petroleum geologist
  • George Hunt Barton (1852–1933), geologist, educator, explorer of Greenland with Robert E. Peary Asa Brigham (1788–1844), signer of Texas Declaration of Independence, Texas treasurer, Austin mayor
• Carl Campbell Brigham (1890–1943), controversial pioneer of psychometrics, known for creating the Scholastic Aptitude Test
• Elbert Sidney Brigham (1877–1962), U.S. Congressman from Vermont
• Elijah Brigham (1751–1816), Massachusetts state representative and state senator; U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts.
• Mary Ann Brigham (1829–1889), American educator and 8th President (President Elect) of Mount Holyoke College
• Robert Breck Brigham (1826–1900), philanthropist endowing the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston.
• Joseph Emerson Brown (1821–1894), Governor of Georgia during the U.S. Civil War and U.S. Senator from Georgia
• Joseph Mackey Brown (1851–1932), Two non-consecutive term governor of Georgia implicated in the lynching of Leo Frank; son of Joseph E. Brown
• Catharinus Putnam Buckingham (1808–1888), professor of mathematics and brigadier general in Union Army; grandson of Rufus Putnam
• Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), author and creator of the Tarzan character
• John Coleman Burroughs (1913–1979), book illustrator and son of Edgar Rice Burroughs

C

• Paul Rice Camp (1919–2012), physicist, academic, and Chief of Materials Research at CRREL
• Miriam C. Camps (1916–1994), economist, author, and State Department official
• George Rice Carpenter (1863–1909), educator and literary scholar
• Margaret Seymour Carpenter (1893–1987), author of the novel Experiment Perilous
• Herman Churchill (1869–1941), educator, genealogist and historian
• Charles Colson (1931–2012), Director of the Office of Public Liaison
• Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933), Thirtieth President of the United States
• Charles Austin Coolidge (1844–1926), Brigadier General
• John Coolidge (1906–2000), businessman and philanthropist from Plymouth Notch, Vermont, and son of President Coolidge

D

• Matthew Paige Damon (born 1970), American actor^[7]
• Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802–1887), health care and social reformer
• Allen Stuart Drury (1918–1998), journalist, and winner of the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Advise and Consent
• Alexander Greer Drury (1844–1929), physician, medical educator and medical historian
• Asa Drury (1801–1870), educator and Baptist minister best known as an antebellum abolitionist
• Thomas Drury (1668–1723), Massachusetts colonial legislator

E

• Alexander Rice Esty (1826–1881), 19th-century New England architect
• Constantine Canaris Esty (1824–1912), state representative, state senator and U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts.

G

• Robert Grant (1852–1940), American novelist and probate judge in Massachusetts.

H

• Erastus Otis Haven (1820–1881), Methodist bishop, Massachusetts state senator, and president of three major universities
• John James Hollister Jr. (1901–1961) California state senator and grandson of William Welles Hollister
• William Welles Hollister (1818–1886) a California rancher and entrepreneur, namesake of Hollister, California
• Arthur Otis Howe (1871–1951), Vermont state representative and senator
• Elias Howe (1819–1867), inventor of the first practical sewing machine
• Frank Edmund Howe (1870–1953), Vermont state legislator, House speaker, and Vermont lieutenant governor
• Gardner Howe (1759–1854), Vermont state legislator
• Gilman Bigelow Howe (1850–1933), genealogist and president of the National Genealogical Society
• Jonas Howe (1786–1865), Massachusetts state legislator
• Jonas Holland Howe (1821–1898), abolitionist, artist, and Minnesota state legislator
• Marshall Otis Howe (1832–1919), Vermont state legislator
• Simon Herbert Howe (1835–1911), businessman, Massachusetts state legislator and first mayor of Marlborough
• Levi Hubbard (1762–1836), Massachusetts state legislator, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (Maine District)

I

• Charles Phillip Ingalls (1836–1902), American pioneer whose life was depicted in the Little House books
• James Harvey Irvine (1867–1947), prominent landowner in Orange County, California; Irvine Ranch

K

• Charles Reuben Keyes (1871–1951), educator, archaeologist and German scholar
• Margaret Naumann Keyes (1918–2015), educator and heritage conservation scholar
• David Sjodahl King (1917–2009), U.S. Congressman from Utah, ambassador
• William Henry King (1863–1949), U.S. Congressman and Senator from Utah

L

• Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), writer, political theorist & co-founder of the modern American libertarian movement
• Walter Franklin Lansil (1846–1925), Boston based American artist known for scenes of Venice
• Wilbur Henry Lansil (1855–1897), Boston based American artist and younger brother of Walter Franklin Lansil.
• Mary Ashton (Rice) Livermore (1820–1905), American abolitionist, social activist, and author.

M

• Walter Ralston Martin (1928–1989), Baptist Christian minister and author
• Christopher Meloni (born 1961), American actor.^[8]
• Catherine Ann Keyes Miller (1905–1978), music historian, archivist, and educator

O

• Josephine King Olsen (born 1942), 20th Director of the Peace Corps.
• Culbert Levy Olson (1876–1962), California governor 1939–1943; first cousin to U.S. Senator William H. King

P

• Frank Charles Partridge (1861–1943), lawyer, diplomat, and U.S. Senator from Vermont
• William Lyon Phelps (1865–1945), author, radio program host, professor of English literature at Yale University
• Orlando Brunson Potter (1823–1894). businessman, U.S. Congressman from New York
• Persis (Rice) Putnam (1737–1820), wife of U.S. Revolutionary War general Rufus Putnam.

R

• Abbott Barnes Rice (1862–1926), businessman and Massachusetts state legislator
• Alexander Hamilton Rice (1818–1895), industrialist, Boston mayor, Massachusetts governor, and U.S. Congressman
• Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr. (1875–1956), physician, geographer and explorer
• Alexandrea Kawisenhawe Rice (born 1972), contemporary Canadian actress from the Kahnawake Mohawk nation
• Americus Vespucius Rice (1835–1904), banker, brigadier general, U.S. Congressman from Ohio
• Andrew Eliot Rice (1922–2010), American political scientist, founder of Peace Corps and the Society for International Development
• Arthur Wallace Rice (1869–1938), architect from Boston and partner in Parker, Thomas & Rice
• Caleb Rice (1792–1873), attorney; first president of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts
• Charles Rice (1787–1863), brigadier general of the Massachusetts Militia and state representative
• Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889), publisher, editor and journalist
• Charles Francis Rice (1851–1927), Methodist minister, author
• Edmund Rice (1819–1889), U.S. Congressman from Minnesota
• Edmund Rice (1842–1906), brigadier general and Medal of Honor awardee
• Edward Everett Rice (1847–1924), composer and musical theater producer
• Edward Hyde Rice (1847–1895), American educator from Massachusetts
• Edward Loranus Rice (1871–1960), biologist and university administrator
• Eustace Bond Rice (1871–1938) professor of music theory at New England Conservatory
• Franklin Pierce Rice (1852–1919), publisher, historian and antiquarian
• George Merrick Rice (1808–1894), businessman, steel industry pioneer, Massachusetts state senator
• George Walter Rice (1855–1884), pioneering Canadian photographer and arctic explorer
• George Washington Rice (1823–1856), businessman and founder of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
• Harvey Rice (1800–1891), lawyer, publisher, author and Ohio state legislator
• Henry Rice (1786–1867), U.S. military officer, merchant and Massachusetts state legislator
• Henry Mower Rice (1816–1894), U.S. Senator from Minnesota, prominent in its statehood
• Horace Jacobs Rice (1882–1964), Massachusetts lawyer and law school administrator
• Ingraham "Gitz" Rice (1891-1947), Canadian military officer and musical entertainer
• Jacob Rice (1787–1879), New Hampshire state legislator
• James Clay Rice (1828–1864), educator, lawyer and brigadier general
• James Stephen Rice (1846–1939), businessman, rancher & early resident of Tustin, California
• Joel Taylor Rice (aka Joel Ryce-Menuhin), (1933–1998) pianist and Jungian psychologist
• John Asaph Rice (1829–1888), prominent Chicago hotelier & book collector, father of Wallace Rice
• John Richard Rice (1895–1980), Baptist evangelist and pastor.
• Jonas Rice (1672–1753), grandson of Edmund; first permanent English American settler and founder of Worcester, Massachusetts
• Joseph Rice (1638–1711), son of Edmund, Member of the Massachusetts General Court in 1683 and 1698
• Joseph Waldo Rice (1828–1915), American-born entrepreneur and early settler of Barmah, Victoria, Australia.
• Kathleen Creighton Starr Rice (1882–1963), Math professor; trapper; homesteader; first female gold prospector in the Canadian North.
• Lawrence Bridges Rice (1898–1992), architect and tennis champion
• Leon Scott Rice (born 1958), Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force; Director of Air National Guard and formerly The Adjutant General (TAG) of the Massachusetts National Guard
• Laura North Rice (1920–2004), psychology professor, author
  • Lilian Jeannette Rice (1889–1938), architect from San Diego Luther Rice (1783–1836), Baptist minister, missionary to India, and educator; founder of George Washington University
• Michael Alan Rice (born 1955), biologist, Rhode Island state legislator
• Ora Ray Rice (1885–1966), dentist, Wisconsin state legislator, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly 1951–54
• Paul North Rice (1888–1967), librarian, reference department director of the New York Public Library
• Percy Fitch Rice (1882–1954), inventor and businessman
• Richard Henry Rice (1863–1922), mechanical engineer and inventor
• Robert Vernon Rice (1924-2020), biochemist and educator
• Rosella Rice (1827-1888), American author contributing to the folklore of John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman.
• Thomas Rice (1654–1747), grandson of Edmund; Massachusetts colonial legislator and a founder of Westborough, Massachusetts
• Thomas Rice (1734–1812), Massachusetts state legislator, judge, Federalist Party politician
• Thomas Rice (1768–1854), Massachusetts state legislator, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (Maine district)
• Victor Moreau Rice (1818–1869), New York State legislator, educator, newspaperman, banker and insurance company executive.
• Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice (1859–1939), author, poet and designer of the Chicago flag
• Willard Wadsworth Rice (1895–1967), silver medalist U.S. hockey player in the 1924 Winter Olympics
• William Abbott Rice (1912–1991), geologist and university professor
• William Rice (1788–1863), Massachusetts businessman and public servant
• William Rice (1821–1897), Methodist minister, librarian
• William Ball Rice (1840–1909), industrialist and president of Rice & Hutchins, Inc.
• William Chauncey Rice (1878–1941), American lawyer, prominent Methodist and editor of Zion's Herald
• William Gorham Rice Jr. (1892–1979) law professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison
• William Gorham Rice Sr. (1856–1945) American government official from Albany, New York
• William North Rice (1845–1928), geologist, Methodist minister and university administrator
• William Whitney Rice (1826–1896), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
• George Edmund Royce (1829–1903), businessman and state senator from Vermont

S

• Joan Irvine Smith (1933–2019), businesswoman and philanthropist prominent in Orange County, California.

T

• James Vernon Taylor (born 1948), American singer and songwriter.^[9]

U

• William Upham (1791–1853), Vermont state legislator and U.S. Senator from Vermont

W

• Gideon Welles (1802–1878), Secretary of the Navy during the Lincoln and Andrew Johnson administrations.
• Almanzo James Wilder (1857–1949), husband of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder and father of writer Rose Wilder Lane
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), author of Little House on the Prairie

Z

• Leka Zogu (1939–2011), Crown Prince of Albania
• Leka Zogu II (b. 1982), pretender to Albanian throne

Notes and References

1. Web site: Edmund Rice Six-Generation Database . Edmund Rice (1638) Association . 2009-04-12.
2. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. 1858. A genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, Publisher. 379pp. Download PDF
3. Smith, Elsie Haws. (1954). More About those Rices. Meador Publishers, Boston.
4. Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2014. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations. (CD-ROM)
5. Ellis, Ray Lowther (ed.), 1970. A Genealogical Register of Edmund Rice Descendants. Edmund Rice (1638) Association and The Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, Vermont. 1594 pp.
6. Web site: The First Nine Generations of the Descendants of Edmund Rice (CD-ROM). Edmund Rice (1638) Association . August 2015 . 4 Jun 2016.
7. Web site: Matt Damon. Famous Kin. 25 Dec 2018.
8. Web site: Season 7, Episode 4-The Shirts on Their Backs. Henry Louis Gates. Finding Your Roots-PBS Television. 12 Feb 2024.
9. Web site: Ancestry of James Taylor. FamousKin.com. 22 Aug 2018.