Napa-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Rhodes, Samuel R. 1846 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

SAMUEL R. RHODES, dentist, has been a resident of California for about
thirty-five years. His parents, Judge A. L. Rhodes and Elizabeth (Gavins)
Rhodes, came from Indiana in 1854. His father had occupied a prominent position
in the legal and political history of the development of California. He
represented the Santa Clara Senatorial District about the time pf the breaking
out of the Rebellion, was one of the Justices of the Supreme Court for a period
of sixteen years, and was for two years of that time Chief Justice. He is now
practicing law in San Francisco, and residing in San Jose. Dr. Rhodes received
his primary education in the Gates' Institute of San Jose, attended for three
years Santa Clara College, and was graduated at the University of California, at
Berkeley, in 1875. For some four years he underwent a process of preparation for
his life-work by engaging in numerous branches of business, as journalist,
merchant, clerk in a stock-broker's office, then undertaking the studying of
medicine, and finally drifting into dentistry which he decided, to make his
profession, and which he has studied and practiced ever since. He practiced for
about two years in Havana, Cuba; then returning to the United States he settled
in San Jose, where he remained for about a year and a half, and then removed to
Napa, where he has since devoted himself to his profession. He was married in
1879, to Miss Josephine Brito, a native of New York. Her father, Dr. Brito, a
native of the Island of Cuba, was a naturalized American citizen. He was
accustomed to practice dentistry there during the winter, and in New York during
the summer seasons. He died six years ago.

Additional Comments:
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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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