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From History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909)
ELWOOD E. RICE.
There are men whose place of residence is but a feature of their life records, while the place of their business activity does not even localize them. They are men of the world in the broadest sense of the term in that their interests have constituted important elements in the world’s work and progress. A splendid example of the spirit of the times is found in Elwood E. Rice, alert and enterprising, recognizing every opportunity and with marked initiative force, which he has displayed by the development of the business interests which he manager in the office of president of the Rice Electric Display Company and the R. R. Sign Company. He was born October 11, 1879, in Montgomery county, a son of Franklin and Mary Victoria (Dryden) Rice. His grandfather was Fleming Rice, his great-grandfather,
As printed in History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Elwood E. Rice: William M. Adelberger El Wood E. Rice
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