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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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After its 1876 start by Dewey [1] the Library Bureau prospered as it supplied furniture, equipment, supplies, and services to many of the new Carnegie Libraries being built during the late 1800s and early 1900s. It opened a number of large factories to provide furniture and supplies.
Kay LeRoy Ruggles (1932–2012), U.S. – inventor and designer known for UMBO shelving and furniture; Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), Germany – electron microscope; William Chester Ruth (1882–1971), U.S. – combination baler feeder, self-lifting farm elevator; François van Rysselberghe (1846–1893), Belgium – Universal meteorograph ...
Emmy-nominated actor John Amos, best known for his role as family patriarch James Evans on CBS’ Good Times, has died. He was 84 years old. Amos’ son, Kelly Christopher Amos, tells The ...
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 ...