James S. Rice

Rice was educated in the public schools in Cleveland and attended Case Western Reserve College in Hudson, Ohio, graduating with a BA degree in classical studies in 1866.

[1][2] James Stephen Rice and his family moved to Orange County, California on 18 January 1877, first residing near the head of Newport Bay in one of the former ranch houses owned by José Antonio Andres Sepúlveda (1803–1875),[3] the owner of Rancho San Joaquin.

Mrs. Coralinn Rice was a noted Orange County socialite frequently hosting performing artists including Helena Modjeska at their home in Tustin.

[1] Rice died on 15 April 1930 at his home in Tustin, and buried at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California.

His brother-in-law (the brother of Coralinn), Charles Averill Barlow (1858–1927), lived in Bakersfield, California and was a U.S.

The James S. and Coralinn Rice House on First Street (corner of Prospect), Tustin, California 1895
Percy Fitch Rice in 1903 with his automatic paper feeding mechanism for the printing press