William Marsh Rice and His Institute: The Centennial Edition

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( 147 ) Notes Chapter 1 1. Timothy Dwight, Travels in New England and New York, 4 vols., ed. Barbara Miller Solomon (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969), 1:231. 2. On this David Rice’s ancestors see Frederic A. Wallace, comp., Ancestors and Descendants of the Rice Brothers of Springfield, Mass.: David Rice,William Marsh Rice, Caleb Hall Rice, Frederick Allyn Rice . . . (Baltimore: Gateway, 2005), 1–17, and B. Rice Aston, The Promiscuous Breed ([Houston?]: self-published, 2006). Also see Senate Documents, 29th Cong., 1st sess., No. 344, serial 476: Report of the Secretary of War, Communicating . . . Copies of the Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry in the Case of Major J.W. Ripley, Superintendent of the Armory at Springfield ([Washington, DC?]: Ritchie & Heiss, 1846), 23–27. 3. G. C. Bliss, in the Houston Chronicle, March 14, 1916. 4. Wallace, Ancestors and Descendants of the Rice Brothers, 19–25; O. P. Allen, “The LateWilliam Marsh Rice,” Springfield Daily Republican, May 24, 1901, p. 12, cols. 4–5. 5. Report of the Secretary of War, 23–27. 6. Dwight, Travels in New England, 1:231. 7. Alfred Minot Copeland, ed., “Our County and Its People”: A History of Hampden County, Massachusetts, 2 vols. (n.p.: Century Memorial, 1902), 2:261–62; Clifton Johnson, Hampden County, 1636–1936, 3 vols. (New York: American Historical Society , 1936), 1:279. 8. Dwight, Travels in New England, 2:230. 9. William Marsh Rice to Charlotte Rice McKee (?), March 23, 1899, Early Rice Institute Records, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston,Texas (hereaftercited as Early Rice Institute Records).The first edition of this book cited theWilliam Marsh Rice Papers and the Rice Litigation Papers in the Woodson Research Center. Those two collections have been blended into a larger collection titled the Early Rice Institute Records. A detailed finding aid for guiding researchers to particular documents in the Early Rice Institute Records is available online at http:/ /www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00226/rice-00226.html and is also available at the Woodson Research Center. 10. Andrew Forest Muir, “William Marsh Rice and His Institute,” a paper read before the Historical Society of the Rice Institute, November 13, 1958, p. 2, Andrew Forest Muir Papers (hereafter cited as Muir Papers), Woodson Research Center. A detailed finding aid for the Muir Papers is online at http:/ /www.lib.utexas.edu/ taro/ricewrc/00195/rice-00195.html and is also available at the Woodson Research ( 148 ) notes to pages 4–7 Center. The material related to Professor’s Muir’s research on William Marsh Rice can be found in boxes 66–69. 11. Josiah Gilbert Holland, History of Western Massachusetts, 2 vols. (Springfield: Samuel Bowles, 1855), 2:122–23. 12. Muir, “William Marsh Rice and His Institute,” 1. 13. Centennial Souvenir of the New England Conference and of Springfield Methodism . . . (Springfield: Charles Tilton, 1896), 12 (quotation), 16. 14. Muir, “William Marsh Rice and His Institute,” 2. 15. Copeland, “Our County and Its People,” 2:116. 16. G. C. Bliss, Houston Chronicle, March 14, 1916. 17. William Orr,The Historyof the Classical High School, Springfield, Massachusetts (Springfield: Classical High School Alumni Association, 1936), 19. 18. Copeland, “Our County and Its People,” 2:116. 19. CharlesWells Chapin, Historyof the “Old High School” on School Street, Springfield , from 1828 to 1840 (Springfield: Press of the Springfield Printing and Binding Co., 1890), 9; Orr, History of the Classical High School, 18–19 (quotations). 20. Chapin, History of the “Old High School,” 28–29. 21. Muir, “William Marsh Rice and His Institute,” 3; O. P. Allen, “The Late William Marsh Rice,” Springfield Daily Republican, May 24, 1901, p. 12, cols. 4–5; Charles Wells Chapin, Sketches of the Old Inhabitants and Other Citizens of Old Springfield of the Present Century (Springfield: Press of the Springfield Printing and Binding Co., 1893), 89–90. 22. David Sherman, History of the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Mass., 1817– 1890 (Boston: McDonald and Gill, 1893), 11, 69, 71–73. 23. William Marsh Rice to Charlotte Rice McKee, June 30, 1900, Early Rice Institute Records. 24. Allen, “The Late William Marsh Rice,” 12. 25. Probate Case Papers of Hampden County, Massachusetts, File 9340, Registry of Probate, Springfield; Wallace, Ancestors and Descendants of the Rice Brothers, 25. 26. William Marsh Rice to Charlotte Rice McKee (?), March 23, 1899, Early Rice Institute Records. 27. “Mr. Clark’s interview with Charlotte McKee,” Springfield, Massachuetts, February 19–20, 1904, Early Rice Institute Records. 28. Testimony of Charlotte Rice McKee, Springfield, Massachusetts...