An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company,
Spokane, WA. 1905, page 266-267.

AUSTIN C. RICE, who resides on Jackson street in The Dalles, was born on Fifteen
Mile creek on October 29, 1865, the son of Horace and Eliza J. (Bolton) Rice,
natives of Ohio and West Virginia, respectively. They are mentioned elsewhere in
this work. The district schools of this county supplied the educational training
of our subject and in studying and working on the farm with his father, he spent
the days of his youth. In early manhood he was with his father on the ranch and
in raising cattle and was well trained. When twenty-four, he purchased land from
the military road grant and farmed it for six years. Then he sold his entire
property and engaged in the grocery business at Ashland. Two years later he sold
that business and came again to Wasco county and took up stock raising and
farming. He purchased a farm from his brother, three miles from the old home
estate, and after handling it for three years, he sold it and came to The
Dalles, where he resides at the present time. In all his career, Mr. Rice has
been an active and wide awake business man and has shown marked financial
ability and thus has secured for himself a fine competence.      

At The Dalles, on November 11, 1890, Mr. Rice married Miss Ada A. Waller, who
was born in Polk county, on August 11, 1860. Her parents, George T. and Mary J.
(Doty) Waller, were born near Quincy, Illinois. The father's father died when
that son was an infant and then the mother brought her children across the
plains with ox teams in 1849. Mrs. Rice has three brothers, Oliver, Lorin W.,
Alton J., and three sisters, Emily C. Fell, Minnie Winters, and Lulu Henritt.
Mr. and Mrs. Rice have three children: Darrell L., aged eight; Verl W., aged
four; and Dale G.      

Politically, our subject is a good Republican and displays an interest in all
matters both public and educational. His wife belongs to the Christian church.
She is a graduate of the Monmouth college and for thirteen years previous to her
marriage she was one of the educators of Oregon, teaching both in the Willamette
valley and in Dufur.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.