Primary Name: Rice, Helen Benedict

Filed as: Rice, Helen Benedict

Also known as: Helen Benedict-Rice; Helen Benedict

Occupation / Association: Early Juneau resident; spouse of Episcopal missionary Dean Charles Edgar Rice

Associated places: Juneau, Alaska; Circle City, Alaska; Fairbanks, Alaska; Nashotah, Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Keywords: Helen Benedict Rice, Helen Benedict-Rice, Charles Edgar Rice wife, Dean Rice family Juneau, Circle City Alaska missionary family, Fairbanks early families, Alaska Episcopal missions families

Biography

Helen Benedict married Charles Edgar Rice at the chapel of his alma mater in Nashotah, Wisconsin on August 30, 1906.

Following their wedding, the couple made the long journey back to Alaska, traveling to Circle City where Reverend Rice was serving as a missionary priest.

The couple had two sons. Their first child, Jackson Benedict Rice, was born June 15, 1907 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Their second son, Robert Gordon Rice, was born October 13, 1908 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Helen Benedict Rice was part of the missionary family life that accompanied the Episcopal missions serving Alaska communities in the early twentieth century.

Sources

Biographies of Alaska Yukon Pioneers 1850–1950, Volume 2, pp. 272–273, Ed Ferrell.