CLASS OF 1866

Dr. Charles Henry Rice died at his home in Fitchburg, Mass., January 5, 1917.

He was born in Ashburnham, Mass., February 19, 1843, his parents being Silas and Almira (Corey) Rice. In 1862 he graduated from Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H., and then began the study of medicine. After obtaining his medical degree at Hanover in November, 1865, he went to Harvard for further study, and in the following summer received the same degree there.

He immediately settled in practice in Fitchburg, and remained there for the rest of his life. He was the first city physician after Fitchburg became a city in 1873, and the first chairman of the board of health, organized in 1890. The last position he filled for three years. He was a member of the original board of trustees of the Burbank Hospital, and had served continuously on the board for twenty-five years. For the same number of years he had been a member of the board of trustees of the Wallace Library. He gave efficient service as a member of the school committee for sixteen years, and was long chairman of the high school sub-committee.

Dr. Rice was an original member of the Rollstone Congregational church, and had been prominent in its activities. He had long been connected with the Masonic fraternity, and was a Knight Templar. He was appointed surgeon of the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, in 1884, with the rank of major, and was retired at his own request in 1897, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He had been vice-president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and president of. the Worcester North Medical Society.

June 1, 1870, Dr. Rice was married to Delia L., daughter of Samuel and Lucinda (Hayward) Estabrook of Ashby, Mass., who died August 30, 1908. A son and two daughters survive their parents.