Early Life
Edmund Rice, Jr. was born in Waitsfield, Vermont on 14 February 1819 to Edmund Rice and Ellen Durkee Rice. He moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in November 1838 to study law. He was admitted to the bar association in 1842 and commenced practice in Kalamazoo. He was appointed registrar of the court of chancery in 1841 and master in chancery in 1845. Rice enlisted to serve in the Mexican-American War in 1847 and commissioned first lieutenant of Company A, First Regiment, Michigan Volunteers. He was the brother of Henry Mower Rice. He married Anna Maria Acker on November 28, 1848.
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