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  1. Henry Mower Rice (November 29, 1816 – January 15, 1894) was a fur trader and an American politician prominent in the statehood of Minnesota . Early life. Henry Rice was born on November 29, 1816, in Waitsfield, Vermont to Edmund Rice and Ellen (Durkee) Rice.

  2. Oil-on-canvas portrait of Henry M. Rice painted by George Healy in 1857. As a trader, businessman, treaty negotiator, and legislator, Henry Mower Rice played a crucial role in Minnesota’s statehood and the development of St. Paul.

  3.  Henry Mower Rice died on January 15, 1894, while on a visit to San Antonio, Texas, and is buried in Oakland Cemetery in St Paul. In 1916, the state of Minnesota donated a marble statue of Rice to the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection.

  4. Henry Mower Rice (November 29, 1816 – January 15, 1894) was a fur trader, commissioner and one of the first United States Senators from Minnesota.

  5. Henry Rice was born on November 29, 1816. When he was 18, he moved to Detroit and participated in the surveying of the canal route around the rapids of Sault Ste. Marie between Lake Superior and Lake Huron.

  6. Henry Mower Rice was a fur trader and an American politician prominent in the statehood of Minnesota. Background Henry Mower Rice was born on November 29, 1816 in Waitsfield, Vermont, the son of Edmund and Ellen (Durkee) Rice, both descendants of early New England ancestors.

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  8. Rice came to Minnesota in 1848 locating at St. Paul. He was the older brother of Democratic state legislative and U.S. Representative (CD 04, 1887-1889) Edmund Rice. Sources: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.