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Rhoda May Knight Rindge, (b. 1864, d. 1941), [1] also known as May Rindge [2] or May K., was an American businesswoman. She was known as the Queen of Malibu [3] [4] as well as the Founding Mother of Malibu [5] and L.A.'s first high-profile female environmentalist. [3] She was the first woman to serve as president of a railroad company.
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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]
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 Rindge and his wife, Rhoda May Knight (1864–1941), went to Los Angeles in 1887, when it was still a frontier. There, he was successful in various business ventures, including founding the Conservative Life Insurance Company and the Los Angeles Edison Electric Company. [8] Rindge became one of the wealthiest men in the state.
Route 119 in Rindge is back open again, after a crash that killed a Fitzwilliam woman.
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.
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