Founder and president of Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co.
Joined his brother, Harry, and William Stix to open a mercantile store in St. Joseph, Mo., where they sold supplies to the Union Army, including a regular customer named Ulysses S. Grant. He moved to St. Louis and became a partner with Benjamin Eiseman in Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co., which moved here from Memphis following an outbreak of yellow fever. A member of the executive board of the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition, he died a year before it opened.
Parents were:
Seligman Rice 1787-1895 and
Yetta Neuman 1808-1895
Both died in Germany
Arrived in US in 1860. Married Aurelia Stix, daughter of Henry Stix of Cincinnati in 1874. One son: Charles M. Rice. Brother of Mrs. Jeanette Rush.
Joined his brother, Harry, and William Stix to open a mercantile store in St. Joseph, Mo., where they sold supplies to the Union Army, including a regular customer named Ulysses S. Grant. He moved to St. Louis and became a partner with Benjamin Eiseman in Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co., which moved here from Memphis following an outbreak of yellow fever. A member of the executive board of the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition, he died a year before it opened.
Parents were:
Seligman Rice 1787-1895 and
Yetta Neuman 1808-1895
Both died in Germany
Arrived in US in 1860. Married Aurelia Stix, daughter of Henry Stix of Cincinnati in 1874. One son: Charles M. Rice. Brother of Mrs. Jeanette Rush.
Founder and president of Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co.
Joined his brother, Harry, and William Stix to open a mercantile store in St. Joseph, Mo., where they sold supplies to the Union Army, including a regular customer named Ulysses S. Grant. He moved to St. Louis and became a partner with Benjamin Eiseman in Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co., which moved here from Memphis following an outbreak of yellow fever. A member of the executive board of the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition, he died a year before it opened.
Parents were:
Seligman Rice 1787-1895 and
Yetta Neuman 1808-1895
Both died in Germany
Arrived in US in 1860. Married Aurelia Stix, daughter of Henry Stix of Cincinnati in 1874. One son: Charles M. Rice. Brother of Mrs. Jeanette Rush.
Joined his brother, Harry, and William Stix to open a mercantile store in St. Joseph, Mo., where they sold supplies to the Union Army, including a regular customer named Ulysses S. Grant. He moved to St. Louis and became a partner with Benjamin Eiseman in Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co., which moved here from Memphis following an outbreak of yellow fever. A member of the executive board of the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition, he died a year before it opened.
Parents were:
Seligman Rice 1787-1895 and
Yetta Neuman 1808-1895
Both died in Germany
Arrived in US in 1860. Married Aurelia Stix, daughter of Henry Stix of Cincinnati in 1874. One son: Charles M. Rice. Brother of Mrs. Jeanette Rush.
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