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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.
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.
Aug. 24—RINDGE — A Winchester man was injured Wednesday morning in a crash on Route 119, where firefighters used a hydraulic rescue tool to extract him from the vehicle, police said in a news ...
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.
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] They had three children.
Cumberland Times-News: Cumberland: Daily Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. [9] The Daily Record: Baltimore: 1888 Daily GateHouse Media [10] Daily Times: Salisbury: 1886 Daily Gannett Company [11] Also published as The Wicomico News, 1886-1923, The Salisbury Times, 1923-1967, and The Shoreman's Daily. [12] Dorchester Star: Easton: 1973 [13]
One of the two defendants, Carl Anthony Knight, was sentenced to life in 1999 but released from prison in January 2021 after serving about 22 years in the drug case.