 He graduated from Northwestern University Dental School and became a practicing dentist.Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony.Rice married his first wife, Mary Amelia Tuffley, daughter of George Tuffley Jr. and Amelia Heron, on July 5, 1907 at Boscobel, WI, and he married his second wife, Laura Kuhnau, on November 9, 1957.