BIO: Henry C. Rice, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER LV.

                              PENN TOWNSHIP.

533  PENN TOWNSHIP.

  HENRY C. RICE, mail contractor, P. O. Dickinson, was born June 19, 
1844, near Landisburg, Perry Co., Penn., where his parents, Zachariah 
and Nancy (Landis) Rice, resided until their death.  Our subject 
enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Infantry, October 16, 1862; took part in the campaign in 
North Carolina, and was engaged in the battle of Kingston, that State; 
was discharged in August, 1863, and re-enlisted August 31, 1864, in the 
Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, serving under Gen. Kilpatrick; 
went through with Sherman to the sea, taking part in many historic 
engagements in Georgia and North Carolina, and was honorably discharged 
May 29, 1865.  Mr. Rice married, November 13, 1866, Miss Catherine 
Zeigler, of Chambersburg, Penn., daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Turner) 
Zeigler, who resided near Carlisle, this county.  Jacob Zeigler died 
April 18, 1882, at Greenview, Ill.; his widow died at Carlisle Springs, 
Penn., November 5, 1885.  Mr. and Mrs. Rice are rearing, in their 
family, Gouverner and Lutie L. Natcher, children of Mrs. Rice's sister, 
Julia, deceased wife of J. A. Natcher.  Mr. Rice belongs to a family of 
extensive mail contractors.  His father was engaged for twenty-six 
years in that service.  The mail route from Landisburg to Newport has 
been in the hands of the Rices for the last thirty-three years, and our 
subject has controlled the route from Carlisle to Dickinson for 
eighteen years, and the route from Carlisle to Landisburg for seven 
years.  He has at this time seven routes under contract, and an 
interest in thirty-one routes.  In politics Mr. Rice is a Republican.  
He and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church.