Alameda County Biographies

CHARLES H. RICE

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Was born in Belfort, France, October 11, 1831, and is the son of John J. and B. 
(Schodel) Rice, but at five years old was taken by his parents to the United 
States, and locating in New Orleans, there resided until 1850.  In that year he 
came to California, and embarking in his trade of butcher in San Francisco, 
there continued until 1863.  At this time he moved to Nevada, and followed the 
same business in Virginia City, where he remained until 1867, when, coming to 
Alameda County, he settled in the same occupation in Oakland, and, in 1872, 
formed a copartnership with James J. White, in the butcher business, the firm 
now doing business at Nos. 2 to 6 City Market.  Married in January, 1857, Miss 
Jennie Francis McNamara, and has four surviving children, viz.:  Octavia, 
Charles, George, and Edward.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 965