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son of Captain Henry Rhodes / Esther Mason
b Middlebury Twp., Knox Co., OH
JOHN MILTON RHODES
An Appreciation
By Samuel M. Unsworth
John Milton Rhodes was not, as the papers have stated, a pioneer of Nevada, but of California. It was our sister State he came in 1850 and within her borders all his life since was passed.
In some very interesting autobiographical jottings written for his youngest child, Jesse M., our townsman, the old gentleman wrote:
"The 12th day of February A. D. 1817, was a day of unusual commotion in a certain log cabin in or near the village of Middleburg, County of Portage and State of Ohio. On that day my mother gave birth to her first child and I was that child.
We who knew him and his remarkable mental force marvel to read that he received no single day's schooling after he was 16 years old. In 1835, when he was 19, he set out for New York City from Massilon, OH., to accept the position of bookkeeper for a large mercantile house there. It was a 7-days stage journey then over the Allegheny mountains. Later he returned to Ohio, became cashier of a bank in Mansfield and in 1850, accompanied by a friend named Sturges, he came to Sacramento to open a bank on Second street between J and K, and was soon handling the strong Western media of exchange, first gold dust then the coinage of private assaying concerns and later the hexagon or octagon pieces of gold called "slugs", current at $50 each. Interest often ran as high as 10 per cent per month and a default in either interest or principal was rare.
Cholera broke out in the early fall of Mr. Rhodes first year in Sacramento and raged with great violence. Mr. Sturges, being predisposed of it, but Mr. Rhodes stayed through it, one but Mr. Rhodes singed through it, one day visiting an old Ohio friend and arranging his affairs an hour or two before he died of the disease.
Banking in Sacramento soon lost its charm. Fires against which was no protection of insurance, floods that made boats necessary in the business streets, explosions of steamboats and consequent sinking of the bank's strong treasure boxes in the Sacramento river and the occasional holding up of the bank's express messengers made Mr. Rhodes turn his eyes to the less anxious life of the farmer. He first bought a half interest in a 32,000-acre tract in Yolo county bearing the title of "The Rancho Canada de Capay".
In 1878 Mr. Rhodes sat as a representative from Yolo county in the Constitutional convention at Sacramento. Five years later he came to the sunrise side of the Sierras and has been an honored and useful citizen of Long Valley, giving his Best? friends occasional, but all to best opportunities of enjoying his genial wisdom and profiting by the interesting and varied experiences of an unusally noble life.
"Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse. How grown in Paradise our store." *
m 12 Oct 1846 Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH
Miss Mary Jane Beall Christmas
They had known children - Jessie C., Henry Edmund, Esther E., Lloyd B., Edward, Harriet C., Elizabeth, Gertrude, Jesse M.
ref: Nevada State Journal 5 Aug 1908 - *From John Keble Burial of the Dead, Stanza 11
Transcribed & Contributed by: BluMoKitty
son of Captain Henry Rhodes / Esther Mason
b Middlebury Twp., Knox Co., OH
JOHN MILTON RHODES
An Appreciation
By Samuel M. Unsworth
John Milton Rhodes was not, as the papers have stated, a pioneer of Nevada, but of California. It was our sister State he came in 1850 and within her borders all his life since was passed.
In some very interesting autobiographical jottings written for his youngest child, Jesse M., our townsman, the old gentleman wrote:
"The 12th day of February A. D. 1817, was a day of unusual commotion in a certain log cabin in or near the village of Middleburg, County of Portage and State of Ohio. On that day my mother gave birth to her first child and I was that child.
We who knew him and his remarkable mental force marvel to read that he received no single day's schooling after he was 16 years old. In 1835, when he was 19, he set out for New York City from Massilon, OH., to accept the position of bookkeeper for a large mercantile house there. It was a 7-days stage journey then over the Allegheny mountains. Later he returned to Ohio, became cashier of a bank in Mansfield and in 1850, accompanied by a friend named Sturges, he came to Sacramento to open a bank on Second street between J and K, and was soon handling the strong Western media of exchange, first gold dust then the coinage of private assaying concerns and later the hexagon or octagon pieces of gold called "slugs", current at $50 each. Interest often ran as high as 10 per cent per month and a default in either interest or principal was rare.
Cholera broke out in the early fall of Mr. Rhodes first year in Sacramento and raged with great violence. Mr. Sturges, being predisposed of it, but Mr. Rhodes stayed through it, one but Mr. Rhodes singed through it, one day visiting an old Ohio friend and arranging his affairs an hour or two before he died of the disease.
Banking in Sacramento soon lost its charm. Fires against which was no protection of insurance, floods that made boats necessary in the business streets, explosions of steamboats and consequent sinking of the bank's strong treasure boxes in the Sacramento river and the occasional holding up of the bank's express messengers made Mr. Rhodes turn his eyes to the less anxious life of the farmer. He first bought a half interest in a 32,000-acre tract in Yolo county bearing the title of "The Rancho Canada de Capay".
In 1878 Mr. Rhodes sat as a representative from Yolo county in the Constitutional convention at Sacramento. Five years later he came to the sunrise side of the Sierras and has been an honored and useful citizen of Long Valley, giving his Best? friends occasional, but all to best opportunities of enjoying his genial wisdom and profiting by the interesting and varied experiences of an unusally noble life.
"Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse. How grown in Paradise our store." *
m 12 Oct 1846 Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH
Miss Mary Jane Beall Christmas
They had known children - Jessie C., Henry Edmund, Esther E., Lloyd B., Edward, Harriet C., Elizabeth, Gertrude, Jesse M.
ref: Nevada State Journal 5 Aug 1908 - *From John Keble Burial of the Dead, Stanza 11
Transcribed & Contributed by: BluMoKitty
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son of Captain Henry Rhodes / Esther Mason
b Middlebury Twp., Knox Co., OH
JOHN MILTON RHODES
An Appreciation
By Samuel M. Unsworth
John Milton Rhodes was not, as the papers have stated, a pioneer of Nevada, but of California. It was our sister State he came in 1850 and within her borders all his life since was passed.
In some very interesting autobiographical jottings written for his youngest child, Jesse M., our townsman, the old gentleman wrote:
"The 12th day of February A. D. 1817, was a day of unusual commotion in a certain log cabin in or near the village of Middleburg, County of Portage and State of Ohio. On that day my mother gave birth to her first child and I was that child.
We who knew him and his remarkable mental force marvel to read that he received no single day's schooling after he was 16 years old. In 1835, when he was 19, he set out for New York City from Massilon, OH., to accept the position of bookkeeper for a large mercantile house there. It was a 7-days stage journey then over the Allegheny mountains. Later he returned to Ohio, became cashier of a bank in Mansfield and in 1850, accompanied by a friend named Sturges, he came to Sacramento to open a bank on Second street between J and K, and was soon handling the strong Western media of exchange, first gold dust then the coinage of private assaying concerns and later the hexagon or octagon pieces of gold called "slugs", current at $50 each. Interest often ran as high as 10 per cent per month and a default in either interest or principal was rare.
Cholera broke out in the early fall of Mr. Rhodes first year in Sacramento and raged with great violence. Mr. Sturges, being predisposed of it, but Mr. Rhodes stayed through it, one but Mr. Rhodes singed through it, one day visiting an old Ohio friend and arranging his affairs an hour or two before he died of the disease.
Banking in Sacramento soon lost its charm. Fires against which was no protection of insurance, floods that made boats necessary in the business streets, explosions of steamboats and consequent sinking of the bank's strong treasure boxes in the Sacramento river and the occasional holding up of the bank's express messengers made Mr. Rhodes turn his eyes to the less anxious life of the farmer. He first bought a half interest in a 32,000-acre tract in Yolo county bearing the title of "The Rancho Canada de Capay".
In 1878 Mr. Rhodes sat as a representative from Yolo county in the Constitutional convention at Sacramento. Five years later he came to the sunrise side of the Sierras and has been an honored and useful citizen of Long Valley, giving his Best? friends occasional, but all to best opportunities of enjoying his genial wisdom and profiting by the interesting and varied experiences of an unusally noble life.
"Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse. How grown in Paradise our store." *
m 12 Oct 1846 Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH
Miss Mary Jane Beall Christmas
They had known children - Jessie C., Henry Edmund, Esther E., Lloyd B., Edward, Harriet C., Elizabeth, Gertrude, Jesse M.
ref: Nevada State Journal 5 Aug 1908 - *From John Keble Burial of the Dead, Stanza 11
Transcribed & Contributed by: BluMoKitty
son of Captain Henry Rhodes / Esther Mason
b Middlebury Twp., Knox Co., OH
JOHN MILTON RHODES
An Appreciation
By Samuel M. Unsworth
John Milton Rhodes was not, as the papers have stated, a pioneer of Nevada, but of California. It was our sister State he came in 1850 and within her borders all his life since was passed.
In some very interesting autobiographical jottings written for his youngest child, Jesse M., our townsman, the old gentleman wrote:
"The 12th day of February A. D. 1817, was a day of unusual commotion in a certain log cabin in or near the village of Middleburg, County of Portage and State of Ohio. On that day my mother gave birth to her first child and I was that child.
We who knew him and his remarkable mental force marvel to read that he received no single day's schooling after he was 16 years old. In 1835, when he was 19, he set out for New York City from Massilon, OH., to accept the position of bookkeeper for a large mercantile house there. It was a 7-days stage journey then over the Allegheny mountains. Later he returned to Ohio, became cashier of a bank in Mansfield and in 1850, accompanied by a friend named Sturges, he came to Sacramento to open a bank on Second street between J and K, and was soon handling the strong Western media of exchange, first gold dust then the coinage of private assaying concerns and later the hexagon or octagon pieces of gold called "slugs", current at $50 each. Interest often ran as high as 10 per cent per month and a default in either interest or principal was rare.
Cholera broke out in the early fall of Mr. Rhodes first year in Sacramento and raged with great violence. Mr. Sturges, being predisposed of it, but Mr. Rhodes stayed through it, one but Mr. Rhodes singed through it, one day visiting an old Ohio friend and arranging his affairs an hour or two before he died of the disease.
Banking in Sacramento soon lost its charm. Fires against which was no protection of insurance, floods that made boats necessary in the business streets, explosions of steamboats and consequent sinking of the bank's strong treasure boxes in the Sacramento river and the occasional holding up of the bank's express messengers made Mr. Rhodes turn his eyes to the less anxious life of the farmer. He first bought a half interest in a 32,000-acre tract in Yolo county bearing the title of "The Rancho Canada de Capay".
In 1878 Mr. Rhodes sat as a representative from Yolo county in the Constitutional convention at Sacramento. Five years later he came to the sunrise side of the Sierras and has been an honored and useful citizen of Long Valley, giving his Best? friends occasional, but all to best opportunities of enjoying his genial wisdom and profiting by the interesting and varied experiences of an unusally noble life.
"Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse. How grown in Paradise our store." *
m 12 Oct 1846 Chillicothe, Ross Co., OH
Miss Mary Jane Beall Christmas
They had known children - Jessie C., Henry Edmund, Esther E., Lloyd B., Edward, Harriet C., Elizabeth, Gertrude, Jesse M.
ref: Nevada State Journal 5 Aug 1908 - *From John Keble Burial of the Dead, Stanza 11
Transcribed & Contributed by: BluMoKitty
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