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Joseph Waldo Rice

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Early life and education
Life and Career in Australia
Genealogy
References

{{Infobox person| name = Joseph Waldo Rice | image = Joseph-Waldo-Rice-c1900.jpg| caption = Joseph Waldo Rice circa 1900| birth_date = 8 February 1828 | birth_place = Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA| death_date = 26 February 1915| death_place = Moama, New South Wales, Australia | resting_place = Barmah, Victoria, Australia|spouse= Mary Ann (Gill) Rice| known for = early pioneering of Moira Lakes Region of Victoria, Australia and proprietor of the Murray Fishing Company}}Joseph Waldo Rice (1828–1915) was an American-born entrepreneur who was first person of European descent to settle the Moira Lakes region near Barmah, Victoria, Australia. He was the proprietor of the Murray Fishing Company serving to provision prospectors and gold miners in the Bendigo region beginning in the early 1850s.^[1]

Early life and education

Joseph Waldo Rice was born on 8 February 1828, in Lincoln, Massachusetts to Henry Rice and Mary (Sherbourne) Rice.^[2] After attending public schools in Lincoln, Massachusetts, he set out as prospector in the gold fields of California about 1850. In 1853 with several colleagues from California, he chartered a vessel in San Francisco to sail for the gold fields of Bendigo, Australia.^[1]

Life and Career in Australia

Rice arrived in Victoria, Australia in 1853 to try his luck on the Australian gold fields near Bendigo. Shortly thereafter, learning that fish were very plentiful in the Murray River, he left the gold fields and after a short time and settled in Moira Lakes near Barmah, Victoria and in 1856 established the Murray Fishing Company to supply the Bendigo gold fields with about a ton of fish per week, transported over {{convert|80|mile|km}} by spring cart. Rice died on 26 February 1915 in Moama, New South Wales,^[3] and was buried in the Barmah Cemetery in Barma, Victoria along with his wife Mary Ann (Gill) Rice who died twenty years earlier on 21 October 1895. Many of his descendants still live in Barmah district.^[1]

Genealogy

Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, an early English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows:^[4]^[2]

Joseph Waldo Rice, son of
Henry Rice (1794 – 1858),^[5] son of
Gershom Rice (1755 – 1837), son of
Gershom Rice (1710 – 1790), son of
Jacob Rice (1660 – 1746), son of
Edward Rice (1626 – 1712), son of
Edmund Rice (1594 – 1663)

References

1. ^¹²{{cite web |url= https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69004128 |title= Joseph Waldo Rice |publisher= Find a Grave |accessdate=13 December 2015}}
2. ^¹ Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2010. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations. (CD-ROM) ERA Books
3. ^New South Wales Death Index: N.S.W.Reg No 3887/1915
4. ^{{Cite web|title = Who was Edmund Rice?|publisher = The Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Inc.|url = http://www.edmund-rice.org/|accessdate = 13 December 2015}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.edmund-rice.org/era5gens/p30.htm#i58482|title=Henry Rice (1794-1858)|publisher= Edmund Rice (1638) Association|accessdate=13 Dec 2015}}

5 : Australian businesspeople|1915 deaths|1828 births|People from Lincoln, Massachusetts|American emigrants to Australia

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