Alexander Hamilton Rice has written:
'Massachusetts, and how she is governed' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Campaign literature, 1878, Republican
William Rice King has written: 'Report on certain experimental and theoretical investigations relative to the quality, form, and combination of materials for defensive armor' -- subject(s): Armor-plate, Projectiles
No, it is most likely Persian. The first references to rice pilaf come from Alexander the Great, speaking of the hospitality he experienced in Bactria (modern day Iran).
According to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~clydethomas/d40.htm, Alexander Miles parents were Jacob (Jr.) Miles and Nancy Rice.
Rice
rice grown on paddies is wet rice cultivation
Mary Rice has written: 'Family literacy'
Rice Roof has written: 'The growing village'
Walter F. Rice has written: 'Winning ways'
Lewis Rice has written: 'Souvenir of eastern Nova Scotia'
William Henry Rice has written: 'What shall we do with the Filipions'
Mark Rice has written: 'Histoire de la photographie'
Irene Rice Pereira has written: 'The Nature of space'
Jeff Rice has written: 'The rhetoric of cool' 'The Kolchak Papers'
Jessie Pearl Rice has written: 'J.L.M. Curry'
H. Rice has written: 'Victoria-Vancouver, British Columbia'
Robin Rice Lichtig has written: 'O Rumbles of Joy!'
Natalie Rice Wahl has written: '200, and other stories'