C. Allen Thorndike Rice

Charles Allen Thorndike Rice was a journalist and the editor and publisher of the North American Review from 1876 to 1889.

C. Allen Thorndike Rice was bornJune 1851 in Boston, Massachusetts as the only son of Henry Gardner Rice , from a Boston publishing family, and Elizabeth Frances Rice, from a New York publishing family. Rice grew up in the Beacon Hill section of Boston and Baltimore, Maryland, but his parents divorced in 1859, and a child custody dispute ensued. Custody was eventually awarded to his father by a Maryland Court and upheld by way of aAugust 1860 decision by Justice George Bigelow of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In retaliation, Elizabeth Thorndike Rice arranged for a kidnapping of Charlie in the summer of 1860 when he was in Nahant, Massachusetts. The kidnapping was witnessed by nineyearold Charlies school mate, Henry Cabot Lodge, who testified to the authorities leading to the capture of the kidnappers. However, Elizabeth was able to escape to Canada with Charlie disguised as a girl. They eventually moved to France and Germany and resided there for several years. In

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