John B. Rice
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Biography
Born in Fremont, Ohio, Rice attended the common schools of Lower Sandusky (now Fremont) and Oberlin College, Ohio. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1857. He took a post-graduate course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at Bellevue Hospital, New York City in 1859. He was a lecturer on military surgery and obstetrics in the Charity Hospital Medical College and the medical department of the University of Wooster in Cleveland, Ohio.
Civil War
Rice served on the medical staff during the Civil War as assistant surgeon of the Tenth and then as surgeon of the Seventy-second regiments of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was also surgeon in chief of a division in the Fifteenth Army Corps and of the District of Memphis.
After the war
After the war, he was appointed a trustee of the state hospital in Toledo, Ohio. He served as member of the Board of Health of Fremont, Ohio.
Congress
Rice was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1882. He engaged in the practice of medicine in Fremont.
Death and burial
He died in Fremont, and was interred in Oakwood Cemetery. He died from Bright's disease.[1]
Family
Rice was the second son of Dr. Robert Stuart Rice and Eliza Ann (Caldwell) Rice.[1] He was married to Sarah Wilson on December 12, 1861.[1] They had two children named Lizzie, born 1865, and Wilson, born 1875.[1]
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- 1832 births
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- Oberlin College alumni
- University of Michigan Medical School alumni
- People from Fremont, Ohio
- Union army surgeons
- People of Ohio in the American Civil War
- College of Wooster faculty
- Deaths from nephritis
- American people of Welsh descent
- Jefferson Medical College alumni
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
- 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives