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Source:
History
of
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
including Its Early Settlement and Progress to the
Present Time;
A Description of its Historic and Interesting
Localities; Its Cities, Towns and Villages;
Religious, Educational, Social and Military History;
Mining, Manufacturing and
Commercial Interests; Improvements, Resources,
Statistics, etc.
Also:
Portraits of Some of its Prominent Men, and Biographies
of
Many of Its Representative Citizens.
Vol. II
Chicago, Ill:
A Warner & Co., Publishers
1889
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JOHN K. RHODES,
farmer, postoffice McKeesport, was born May
21, 1827, in Allegheny county, Pa. His
grandfather, Casper Rhodes, of German
descent, came to this county, and was an
industrious farmer. His children were
Frederick and Mrs. Katie Webb.
Frederick married Jane, a
daughter of Alexander Snodgrass, and
they had the following children:
John K., Ann, Presley, Susan, Alexander
and Mary J. John K. has been a
successful farmer, and owns 154 acres of
land. He married Margaret,
daughter of Andrew McClure, whose
father was Judge McClure.
Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes have one
son, Sylvester E., who married Bell M.,
daughter of John Willock, Esq., and
they have one son, John K. Mr.
Rhodes and family are members of the
Lebanon Church.
Source: History of Allegheny County,
Penn. - Vol. II - Publ. Chicago, Ill., A
Warner & Co. Publishers - 1889 - Page 747 |
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JOSHUA RHODES,
president Pennsylvania Tube-works,
Pittsburgh, was born in 1823, in London,
England. Several years later his
parents, Charles and Lucy (Kipps) Rhodes,
came with their family of seven children to
America and settled at Pittsburgh. The
father, who was a carpenter and
lumber-merchant, died in 1840; the mother
survived him forty-five years.
Joshua Rhodes is the sixth child, and
the only one living, save the youngest, a
sister. When twelve years old he
entered a grocery-store, and in 1839 he
opened a similar establishment on his own
account, but in following year was burned
out. After a short trip to New Orleans
he returned to Pittsburgh and enaged in the
grocery trade with Jones & Gould.
In 1843, he embarked in the confectionery
trade, and soon after established the
largest cracker-factory then in Pittsburgh,
which he sold. He then engaged in the
brewing business, as head of the firm of
Rhodes & Werner, who purchased
the brewery of Tracy & Wilkinson.
After building a large brewery and
warehouse, Mr. Rhodes bought
the interest of his partner, and afterward
sold to Darlington & Co. He
then leased a pipemill on Hare's
Island, which he afterward bought; then
formed a stock company with a capital of
$1,200,000, of which he was made president,
and purchased the Creston Tool-works at Soho,
which is now the plant of the Pennsylvania
Tube company. Mr. Rhodes, with
others, secured the charter of the Union and
Point bridges, and the Penn incline, and is
president of the companies which operate
them. He is a director in the Citizens’ and
Transverse Street railways, and in the
Citizens' and Pittsburgh Traction companies;
is a stockholder in the Pennsylvania
Construction company. He was made a
director in the Central National Bank, at
its organization, and is now vice president.
Mr. Rhodes married, in 1861, Eliza
Hazlett, a native of Pittsburgh, of
English descent, and they have four
children: William, Joshua Walter, Mary
and Annie. Mr. Rhodes voted for
Henry Clay, and has always been a whig
and republican. He and his wife attend
the Presbyterian Church.
Source: History of Allegheny County,
Penn. - Vol. II - Publ. Chicago, Ill., A
Warner & Co. Publishers - 1889 - Page 562 |
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S. O. RHODES,
lumber-merchant, post office Elizabeth,
a son of Frederick and Catherine
Rhodes, was born in Jefferson
township, in 1838, and made his home with
his parents until 1862. He then
married Rachel, daughter of Jesse
Cunningham, of Baldwin township, and
after marriage located in Elizabeth
township, where he built a steam sawmill
with a daily capacity of ten thousand feet
of lumber. This mill he wore out, and
then erected another of about the same
capacity, and is engaged in building barges,
coalboats, etc.; is also a general dealer in
lumber. Their children were Jesse
(deceased), Samuel O., George Q.,
Florella May (deceased).
Howard, Robert S. and Rachel L.
During the war he was in the three-months
service, in Capt. Harmar's company.
Mr. Rhodes is descended from
one of the old families of Allegheny county.
Source: History of Allegheny
County, Penn. - Vol. II - Publ. Chicago,
Ill., A Warner & Co. Publishers - 1889 -
Page 717 |
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