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Rindge was born Rhoda May Knight in 1864, the eighth child of James and Rhoda Roxanna Lathrop Knight. [1] [24] She grew up on a sheep farm outside Trenton, Michigan with 12 siblings. [25] [9] [26] [27] By age 22, she was working as a math teacher at a local schoolhouse. [28] [29] Knight's family was strictly Methodist.
Frederick and wife Rhoda May Knight Rindge's daughter, Rhoda Agatha, commissioned Malibu's Adamson House with her husband, Merritt Adamson. The Rindge family fortune has been valued at US$700 million in 2016 dollars accounting for inflation [8] and were close friends of the Roosevelt family. [9]
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Rindge was born in Cambridge on December 21, 1857, the only surviving son among the six children of Samuel B. Rindge (1820–1883) and Clarissa Harrington (December 8, 1822 – January 4, 1885). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] His siblings, including a brother named Henry and a sister named Mary, [ 9 ] all died of scarlet fever , also known as rheumatic fever.
Rhoda Agatha Rindge Adamson (April 20, 1893 – April 2, 1962) also known as Rhoda Agatha Adamson or simply Rhoda Adamson, was the co-founder and secretary-treasurer [1] of Adohr Farms and Adohr Dairy & Creamery, one of Southern California's largest and most successful dairies.
Malibu Potteries was founded by Rhoda May Knight Rindge in 1926. [2] A fire devastated the company 30 September 1931, and the company closed in 1932. Tile designs included influences the styles of Moorish, Egyptian, Mayan and Saracen cultures. Many of the tile designs were geometric.
Rindge was strictly opposed to the idea, entering the law office of O'Melveny & Myers in 1907 [4] [5] to take up the new fight against the Federal Government and People of the State of California. [5] What ensued was an approximately 16-year fight costing Rindge over $1 million a year, [6] [7] first to keep out the roads, then Roosevelt Highway ...
Frederick H. Rindge (1857—1905), American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and writer; Frederick H. Rindge (entomologist) (fl. 1981), entomologist who named Nemeris sternitzkyi, a geometrid moth in the family Geometridae; Rhoda May Knight Rindge (1864–1941), American businesswoman; Rhoda Agatha Rindge Adamson (1893–1963), American businesswoman