What is Wallace Rice?
[[File:Wallace Rice 01.jpg|thumb|200px|Rice in {{circa|1911}}]] '''Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice''' (November 10, 1859 – December 15, 1939) was an [[Americans|American]] author and [[Vexillology|vexillographer]]. He is known for designing the [[flag of Chicago]] in 1917. He also wrote for the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' and the ''[[Chicago American|Chicago Herald American]]''. Rice was born in [[Hamilton, Ontario]], Canada to American parents. He was [[divorce]]d from his wife. The couple had two children. Rice died of [[uremia]] on December 15, 1939 in [[Chicago, Illinois]]. He was 80.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/12/16/archives/wallace-rice-80-author-lecturer-chicago-resident-since-1861.html|title=Wallace Rice, 80; Author, Lecturer; Chicago Resident Since 1861 Dies–Co-Writer and Compiler of 90 Books and Pamphlets Heraldry One of Hobbies With Late Clarence Darrow, He Wrote Volume Entitled 'Infidels and Heretics'|location=[[Chicago]]|date=December 16, 1939|access-date=April 2, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rice, Wallace}} [[Category:1859 births]] [[Category:1939 deaths]] [[Category:Chicago]] [[Category:Deaths from uremia]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Chicago]] [[Category:People from Hamilton, Ontario]] [[Category:Journalists from Chicago]] {{us-bio-stub}}