Franklin Pierce Rice

Franklin Pierce Rice was a selftaught printer and publisher who transcribed and printed and preserved vital records from Massachusetts and was a cofounder of the Worcester Society of Antiquity.

Franklin Pierce Rice was bornJuly 1852 in Marlborough, Massachusetts as the only son of Minot Rice and Mary Berry Rice. He received his elementary education from his mother, and did not enter public school until he was eleven years old. After completion of his preparatory studies, he intended to enter the medical profession so he began the study of chemistry, anatomy and physiology however he never completed these studies. He turned to writing and publishing the public records of Massachusetts as a profession. He was never married.

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