Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. William Harrison Rice (1813-1862) was a missionary teacher from the United States who traveled to the Hawaiian Islands and managed an early sugar plantation. In 1844 the Rice family was transferred to become the first secular teachers at Punahou School that had been founded by Dole two years before in Honolulu. One of his first tasks was to have a house constructed for his family and some boarders, known as "Rice Hall". He then supervised the building of a building now called "Old School Hall" from 1848 to 1851, largely with student labor. In 1854 they resigned from the school and moved to the island of Kauäi where he became manager for the L¿hüe Plantation owned by Henry A. Peirce and William Little Lee, replacing James Fowler Baldwin Marshall.