Rice, Edwin Wilbur

D.D. (Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1884), Congregationalist; b. at Kings borough, N.Y., July 24, 1831; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1854; and studied in Union Theological Seminary, New- York City, 1855-57; taught, 1857-58; was mi ionary of American Sunday-school Union, 1859-64; ordained in 1860; superintendent of its mi ions, 1864-70; a istant secretary of mi ions, and a istant editor of periodicals, Philadelphia, 1871- 78; editor, 1878, and of periodicals and publications since 1879. He planned and prepared the le on papers of the American Sunday-school Union, 1872 sqq.; the Scholar's Handbook on the International Le ons, 1874 sqq.; wrote the geographical and topographical articles in Schaff's Bible Dictionary, Philadelphia, 1880, 3d ed. 1885; edited Paxton Hood's Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century, 1882; Kennedy's Four Gospels, 1881; and has independently produced, Pictorial Commentary on St. Mark, 1881, 2d ed. 1882; Historical Sketch of Sunday Schools, 1886.