Frank J. Rice

Rice (February 5, 1869, North Adams, Massachusetts – 1917) was a four-term Republican mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.. At 18 he went into the grocery business.

His wife was Charlotte A. Watrous, a native of Clinton, CT.

He had two children: Russel L., born July 8, 1894, and Mancel W. He was a member of The Masons, the Odd Fellows, Elks, Red Men, Heptasophs, the Eagles, the Woodmen of the World, the Knights of Pythias, the Aryan Grotto and the Haru Gari.

He mainly focused on tenement districts and said that the cost was one cent per child per hour of play.

In 1921, land along View Street in Cedar Hill was filled in for Rice Field.