About Laban Lacy Rice
Lived 1870 – 1973 (aged 102). Laban Lacy Rice was an American writer, author and educator.
Dr. Laban Lacy Rice (October 14, 1870 – February 13, 1973) was an educator, author, and president of Cumberland University. He was an international authority on relativity.
Early life He was born in Dixon, Kentucky, to Laban Marchbanks Rice, a Confederate veteran and prominent tobacco merchant, and his wife, Martha Lacy. He was the older brother of the poet Cale Young Rice. Lacy Rice grew up with his family in Evansville, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky.
He received his BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Cumberland University.
Death He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1973, at the age of 102, and was buried at the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Lebanon, Tennessee.
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American academic administrator
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Laban Lacy Rice died on 13 February 1973 in Kentucky.
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