16 Facts About Isaac Rice

Isaac Leopold Rice was a German-born Jewish American businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron.

Isaac Rice emigrated to the United States with his mother in 1856.

Isaac Rice was educated at the Central High School in Philadelphia and at nineteen he was sent to Paris, where he studied music for three years.

Isaac Rice was regarded in his time as one of the ablest specialists in railroad law in the United States, and held large investments in several lines, including the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and Reading Railroad.

Isaac Rice was invited to start a publishing company by some associates in the music printing societies.

Isaac Rice became the first president of The Forum magazine, and later the Electric Storage Battery Co.

Some numerous other companies Isaac Rice organized or was involved in included the Electric Vehicle Company, Car Lighting and Power Company, American Casein Company, and the Consolidated Rubber Tire Company.

Isaac Rice moved in, taking over and renaming the company as the Electric Boat Company on 7 February 1899.

Also in 1899, Isaac Rice added the Electric Launch Company to his family of companies.

Isaac Rice married Julia Hyneman Barnett on December 12,1885.

Isaac Rice died at the Hotel Ansonia in New York City on November 2,1915.

Isaac Rice is interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery, Ocala, Florida.

Isaac Rice was a prominent figure in the American chess world.

Isaac Rice became president of the Manhattan Chess Club, and presented for competition several trophies, including the one that was competed for annually by cable by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, representing England, and those of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, representing the United States.

Isaac Rice then sponsored tournaments where the opening became the starting point of each game.

Isaac Rice played White in this game against Wordsworth Donisthorpe, played in London in 1892.