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democrat, served many years as a justice of the peace, and held membership in the United Presbyterian church. His wife, Eliza Rice, whose maiden name was Beck, was a daughter of William and Margaret (Row) Beck, early residents of near the town of Indiana. The mother probably died in the same section. Squire and Mrs. Rice reared a family of eight children: Philip, a carpenter and contractor of near Dixonville, Indiana county; Mary, wife of Nelson O'Neil, of Jacksonville, in her native county; John and William B., both farmers in their native township; Dr. Daniel S.; Porter E., engaged in farming near Decker's Point, in Indiana county; and Frank A., of Hastings.     Dr. Daniel S. Rice was reared on the farm, received his education in the public schools, Purchase Line academy, and the select schools of Professor Wolf, of Marion Center, and taught during the winters of 1879-80 and 1880-81. He then commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J. B. Green, then of Dixonville, Indiana county, and now of Summerhill, and in 1882 entered the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, from which he was graduated in the class of 1884. Returning home, he commenced the practice of his profession at St. Boniface, this county, which he left five years later to locate at Hastings, where he has practiced ever since.     On January 6, 1891, Dr. Rice was united in marriage with Nettie Corbin, of Houtzdale, this State. To their union have been born two children, a son and a daughter: Mary Hayes and Daniel Sweeny, now deceased.     Dr. Rice is a republican politically, and has been a Methodist for several years, being a member of the Hastings Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of Somerset Lodge, No. 312, Free and Accepted Masons, of Ebens-

burg, the county seat, and Patton Lodge, No. 1089, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Patton. Dr. Rice is devoted to his profession, and in addition to his collegiate courses of lectures, has taken special courses. In 1886 he took a special course at the Philadelphia Polyclinic, and three years later another special course at the New York Post graduate Medical school. A pleasant and congenial gentleman, he is accessible to all, meeting every one with kindness and affability. Dr. Rice is a gentleman both at home and abroad. But it is in his profession -- to which he has devoted his life -- that he stands at his full height. All his reading and study are pursued with but one view, and that the better to qualify him for the discharge of his duty. He has a very large practice, and ranks as one of the most able, experienced and successful physicians of the county. Dr. Rice has never suffered himself to become antiquated in his profession, but has always kept fully abreast of all the advances made in medicine, and has been sometimes able to anticipate them in this great age of wonderful discoveries. HERMAN H. MYERS, a rising young lawyer, of Ebensburg, this county, is a son of James and Mary J. (Murray) Myers, and was born in Ebensburg, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. His great-grandfather, John Myers, was born in Maryland, and at an early age removed to Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where he lived for a short time, and then removing further west, settled near Ashville, Cambria county, where he died. He was a cabinet-maker by trade, but on locating in this county, adopted the avocation of a farmer. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was born along the waters of the Conemago, in Maryland, and removed with his parents to

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