| 词条 | Caleb Rice |
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|name=Caleb Rice |image=Caleb Rice.png |caption= |order= |office= 1st Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts |term_start=1852 |term_end=1853 |predecessor= Board of Selectmen |successor= Philos B. Tyler |office2=3rd[1] Sheriff of Hampden County, Massachusetts |term_start2=1831 |term_end2=1851 |predecessor2=John Phelps[2] |successor2=Patrick Boies[2] |office3=Member of the Board of Selectmen of West Springfield, Massachusetts[3] |term_start3=1826[3] |term_end3=1830[3] |predecessor3= |successor3= |office4= 1st President of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company[4] |term_start4=June 1851 |term_end4= March 1, 1873 |predecessor4=None |successor4=E. W. Bond[4] |birth_date=April 4, 1792 |birth_place=Conway, Massachusetts |death_date={{death date and age|1873|3|1|1792|4|4}} |death_place= |party= |profession= Attorney, businessman |alma_mater=Williams College |spouse= Marietta Parsons Rice (m. 1826) |children= Joseph Rice (1828–1831); Benjamin Stebbins Rice (1829–1831); Elizabeth D. Rice (b. 1835) |signature= Caleb Rice Signature.png |footnotes= }}Caleb Rice (1792–1873) was an American politician and businessman. He was the first Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts when it became a city in 1852, and the first president of MassMutual Life Insurance Company, now a Fortune 100 company.[4] Early yearsCaleb Rice was born on April 4, 1792 in Conway, Massachusetts. He was the son of Joseph Rice and Betty (Dickerson) Rice. Rice married Marietta P. Parsons, daughter of Israel Parsons, in 1826. CareerRice served as the first Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts when it became a city in 1852, and he was also the first president of MassMutual Life Insurance Company. Rice also served as the third Sheriff of Hampden County, Massachusetts and on the Board of Selectmen of West Springfield, Massachusetts,[3] Additionally, Rice served for five years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Springfield.[5] He died March 1, 1873. Genealogy and family relationsRice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony as follows:[6]
References1. ^{{Citation | last=Cutter | first=William Richard| title = Encyclopedia of Massachusetts, Biographical—Genealogical, Volume IV| page = 53. | publisher=American Historical Society (Inc.)| location = New York, N. Y., Boston, Ma | year =1916}} {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box | title=1st Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts | before=Board of Selectmen| after=Philos B. Tyler | years=1852–1853}}{{succession box | title= 3rd Sheriff of2. ^1 {{Citation |last=Davis | first=William Thomas| title = Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume II | page = 169. | publisher=The Boston History Company | location = Boston, Ma | year = 1895}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{Citation |last=Copeland | first=Alfred Minott| title = Our County and Its People: A History of Hampden County Massachusetts, Volume 3| page = 222. | publisher=The Century Memorial Publishing Company | location = Boston, Ma | year = 1902}} 4. ^1 2 {{Citation | last=Putnam | first=Henry H.| title =The New England magazine,| volume= XXVIII|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j7oVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA209| page = 209| publisher=America Company| location = Boston, Ma | date =April 1903}} 5. ^Ward, Andrew Henshaw. 1858. A genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, Publisher. 379pp. [https://books.google.com/books/download/A_genealogical_history_of_the_Rice_famil.pdf?id=DKxOAAAAMAAJ&output=pdf&sig=ACfU3U3MH1Wk2ycAAqUP5Xs5hm4Uw5cqBg&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0 Download PDF] 6. ^Edmund Rice (1638) Association, 2010. Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations. (CD-ROM) Hampden County, Massachusetts | before=John Phelps| after=Patrick Boies| years=1831–1851}}{{s-bus}}{{succession box | title = 1st President of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company | before=None | after= | years=June 1851 – March 1, 1873}}{{succession box | title =President of the Springfield Aqueduct Company | before= | after= | years=1864 }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rice, Caleb}} 9 : 1792 births|1873 deaths|Williams College alumni|American chief executives|American insurance businesspeople|Mayors of Springfield, Massachusetts|Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives|19th-century American politicians|People from Conway, Massachusetts |
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