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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.
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.
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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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 ]
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.
His daughter was Rhoda Agatha Rindge Adamson. [2] [4] Merritt Adamson (1888–1949) was a graduate of the University of Southern California Law School and was the captain of the 1912 football team, the first USC team to be known as the "Trojans". [5] Adamson met Rhoda Rindge while he was employed as the foreman of the Rindge Ranch.
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 ...