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Amos Giles Rhodes (1850–1928) was an Atlanta, Georgia furniture magnate. He was born in 1850 in Henderson, Kentucky. In 1875, he came to Atlanta as a laborer for the L & N Railroad. In 1879, he began a small furniture company which would grow into a large furniture business and make Rhodes a "pillar of the community".
The location at 103-111 Whitehall Street (now Peachtree Street SW) went on to do business as the Rhodes-Wood Furniture Co. [4] [5] Amos Rhodes died in 1928, leaving a substantial endowment. After the dissolution the Rhodes Haverty Investment Company remained, and was the namesake of the 1929 Rhodes-Haverty Building , not Rhodes-Haverty ...
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In 1889, J.J. and Michael entered a partnership with the owner of a neighboring furniture store, Amos G. Rhodes, forming the Rhodes-Haverty Furniture Company. A year and a half after the first Rhodes-Haverty store opened, J.J. Haverty moved westward to St. Louis, Missouri with his family to expand, and soon after bought interest in a number of ...
John Amos, Shannon Amos, and K.C. Amos at the 1st Annual "A Celebration of Heroes" Power Heroes Gala on December 3, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. The late John Amos spoke out about his love for ...
The Taylor Cos., a nearly 200-year-old company that bills itself as the oldest furniture manufacturer in the United States, announced that it plans to go out of business. August 8, 2012 [ 14 ] On September 18, 2012 the Gasser Chair Co. of Youngstown, Ohio announced that it had acquired the intellectual property of Taylor Chair Co.
Joseph Meeks (September 4, 1771 – July 21, 1868) [1] was a furniture maker in New York City who founded what would become a large firm that produced good quality furniture from 1797 to 1869. In 1833 the firm published a broadside [ 2 ] with an illustration of the firm's building and 39 illustrations, mostly of furniture, but also of window ...