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cated in Dysart in 1890, and in 1895, in connection with his other business, he embarked in the mercantile business and opened a store, where he handles everything usually found in a first-class mercantile establishment.     He is a member of the Baptist church, and in politics is identified with the Republican party; he takes an active part in local affairs, and in 1894 was elected justice of the peace at Dysart. He is a member of Logan Lodge, No. 1059, I. O. O. F., of Altoona, Pensylvania.     March 30, 1891, he celebrated his marriage with Miss Mary Elizabeth Kear, who is a native of England. DANIEL S. RICE, M. D., a physician and surgeon of character and distinction, whose professional life has been mostly spent at Hastings, is a son of Samuel and Eliza (Beck) Rice, and was born near Deckinspoint, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1859. Dr. Rice represents the fifth generation from the pioneer, Conrad Rice, who was a native of Lancaster county, and a blacksmith by trade. Conrad Rice purchased, in 1794, from a clergyman by the name of Smith, the right for a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land represented to be within nine miles of Greensburg, this State, but which Hon. William Finley, after a careful search of legal records, found to be near the waters of Two Lickcreek, in Indiana county. Mr. Rice, who had came as far as the site of Youngstown, Westmoreland county, after finding his land to be in Indiana county, proceeded there and found his tract, which afterwards became the James P. Carter farm, adjoining the borough line of the town of Indiana. Returning to the site of Youngstown, where he had left his family and team, he received information

from Capt. Anderson Sharp that it would not be safe to settle there then on account of Indians, and went to Centerville, in the Ligonier valley, where he remained until the spring of 1795. He then removed to his land, of which about eight acres had been cleared by a previous occupant, who had his cabin burned and who had been driven away by the Indians. He erected a temporary shelter, built a cabin, and cleared some land; but before he had sown any grain his horses, four in number, died. He replaced his two teams with a yoke of oxen, and built a blacksmith shop, to which the settlers repaired for miles around. He was never molested by Indians, although making sugar each spring in the Cross Creek valley, a favorite Indian hunting-ground. His land, purchased for ten shillings per acre, in time became very valuable, and, between his farm and shop, he acquired a competency for that day. His son, Conrad Rice, Jr., was born in Lancaster county in 1783, and married Philipena Dickey, by whom he had eight children: Philip, Margaret, Elizabeth, Catherine (Mrs. James Middletoun), Philipena (Mrs. John Lynch), Susannah (Mrs. Robert Adams), Barbara (Mrs. John McDonald), and Conrad, who married Mary Farr. Philip, the eldest child by this marriage, was a blacksmith by trade, and a farmer by occupation. He wedded Margaret McAnulty, an aunt to Daniel S. McAnulty, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volumne. To this union were born five children, three sons and two daughters: Conrad, Samuel, John, Isabella, and Margaret, who married John Fisher. Samuel Rice, the second son, and the father of Dr. Rice, was born on the old Rice homestead, near the town of Indiana, in 1879. He was a blacksmith by trade, and owned a farm which he cultivated. He was a strong Jacksonian

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