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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.
The 3rd Maryland Infantry Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade was organized at Cumberland, Hagerstown, and Baltimore, Maryland, beginning October 31, 1861, and mustered in on May 20, 1862, for three years under the command of Colonel Henry C. Rizer. Companies I and K were organized at Ellicott's Mills and Monrovia, Maryland, in April and May 1864.
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]
In 1887 Rindge married 22-year-old Rhoda May Knight (1864–1941) of Michigan. They moved to Wilshire and Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica and then built a home at 2263 Harvard Boulevard in Los Angeles, known today as the Frederick Hastings Rindge House; weekends and summers were spent at their Malibu estate. [18]
Adamson was born Rhoda Agatha Rindge, the middle child of Rhoda May Knight Rindge and Frederick Hastings Rindge, [11] transplants to California from Michigan and Massachusetts, respectively. The family lived in Santa Monica as well as a Victorian mansion in Malibu Canyon, on the Rindge's 13,315-acre ranch.
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
In 1892 Frederick H. Rindge purchased the 13,300-acre (5,400 ha) Spanish land grant Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit or "Malibu Rancho". [2] He later expanded it to 17,000 acres (6,900 ha)) as the Rindge Ranch, which encompasses present day Malibu, California, and Rhoda May ran it, its oil derrick, and railroad after Frederick's death, also founding the Rindge Dam, Malibu Potteries, and what ...