Wallace G. Rice Collection of Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC 837

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Typed summary of interview (2 leaves) with Leonard Sackett concerning his father, Joseph F. Rice, who was a funeral director in Fargo, the 1893 Fargo fire, a 1905 Loyal Americans of the Republic, Fargo Assembly No. 36, souvenir booklet (cover is attached upside down), and his wife's obituary.

Dates

1905, 1955-1956.

Creator

Rice, Wallace G., 1873- (Person)

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.

Copyrights

Copyrights to this collection are held by the NDSU Archives.

Biographical / Historical

Wallace Gilbert Rice was born on August 15, 1873 in Augusta, Maine. He was the son of Joseph and Lucy (Safford) Rice. He came to Fargo, with his parents in 1881. He served as a volunteer firefighter with the Yerxa Hose Company, and fought the Fargo fire of 1893. He served as fire chief from 1903-1904. He worked for his father as a funeral director, and then went into the decorating business. He retired in 1951.

In 1906, he married Emma Holmberg, and they had one daughter Vivian. Mrs. Rice died in 1956. Wallace Rice died at the Odd Fellows Home in Devils Lake, North Dakota on September 4, 1964. He is buried at Riverside Cemetery in Fargo.