Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. Cass County. CHAUNCEY RICE, druggist, Beardstown; was born in St. Lawrence County, N.Y., Feburary 21, 1830, and in 1842 came, with his parents, to Williams County, O. In 1846, removed to Hancock County, Ill., where he engaged in farming till the fall of 1849, and taught school two winters. In the summer of 1850 he entered the drug store of James G. McCreary, of Rushville, Ill., and clerked for six years. In 1856, he came to Beardstown, and entered into partnership with E.R. Maxwell, in the drug business there. They conducted a drug store under the firm name of Rice & Maxwell, till 1865, when Mr. Rice bought out his partner's interest; afterward bought out the stock of Henry Menke, and is conducting the two drug stores in his own name, his son James G., managing one store. He has occupied his present site, on Park Row, for twenty three years. Mr. Rice has been twice married. In Hancock County, Ill., in the fall of 1852, he married Emily J. Denny, of Augusta, Ill., who died in July, 1878, leaving three children: James G., Mrs. H.J. Nead, of Nebraska, and Chauncey J. In 1879, he married Elizabeth J. Knight, of Beardstown. James G. Rice, son of our subject, was born in Rushville, Ill., in 1853, and at thirteen years of age began clerking in his father's drug store, remaining in the same store thirteen years; and in 1879 he became a member of the firm, and took charge of a branch store on Main street, which he has since conducted with good success. He married, March 6, 1882, Eva Shutts, of Camanche, Iowa. Rice McCreary Maxwell Menke Denny Knight Nead Shutts = St. Lawrence-NY Williams-OH Hancock-IL Schuyler-IL NE IA