Charles Francis Rice (April 4, 1851 – October 2, 1927)[1] was a prominent minister and author.

[2] He was born April 14, 1851, in the parsonage of the Walnut Street Church in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the third son of the Reverend William Rice and Caroline Laura North.

[3] Before entering the ministry, he taught classics at both Springfield High School (1872–73) and was a latin tutor at Wesleyan University (1874–77).

In 1896, he gave an address entitled "The outlook for the future" at the Centennial Exercises of the New England Conference held in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

[8] He was an incoming trustee of the New England Methodist Conference in 1902, and dealt with the results of unwise investments, which had cost the church thousands of dollars.

In 1913, the church federations of other New England states voted to follow the model of Massachusetts in preparations for the 300th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Massachusetts-1920.

He hosted Methodist students from Harvard University in the 'Oxford Club' and presented a paper entitled Life in the Epworth Rectory in 1894.

[16] Also in 1894, he delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon for Lasell Seminary in the Auburndale Congregational Church.

He preached the dedicatory sermon at the new Methodist Episcopal Church in Feeding Hills, MA in 1901.

In 1897, he attended a meeting of the Boston Alumni Association of the Wesleyan Academy at the American House.

She was educated in the Springfield public schools, and graduated with honors from Vassar College in 1874.

He then studied at Harvard, where he earned a law degree in 1908, and later wrote a dissertation on the decline of the Federalist Party in New England in 1912.

Paul North Rice graduated from the New York Library School and became a notable librarian at the New York Public Library., who served as minister of the City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana, and as the president of Dakota Wesleyan University.

Rachel Caroline Rice married Burton Howard Camp, who was a longtime mathematics professor at Wesleyan University.

[27][28] C. F. Rice presented a sketch of his European trip at a meeting of the Essex Institute, in 1882.

William Grant Seaman, who preached at Winthrop Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Roxbury.

His funeral was held at the Copley Methodist Church in Boston, and he was buried with family members in the Springfield Cemetery.