Napa County Biographies

SAMUEL R. RHODES

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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dentist, has been a resident of California for about thirty-five years.  His 
parents, Judge A. L. Rhodes and Elizabeth (Cavins) Rhodes, came from Indiana in 
1854.  His father had occupied a prominent position in the legal and political 
history of the development of California.  He represented the Santa Clara 
Senatorial District about the time of the breaking out of the Rebellion, was one 
of the Justices of the Supreme Court for a period of sixteen years, and was for 
two years of that time Chief Justice.  He is now practicing law in San 
Francisco, and residing in San Jose.  Dr. Rhodes received his primary education 
in the Gates� Institute of San Jose, attended for three years Santa Clara 
College, and was graduated at the University of California, at Berkeley, in 
1875.  For some four years he underwent a process of preparation for his 
life-work by engaging in numerous branches of business, as journalist, merchant, 
clerk in a stock-broker�s office, then undertaking the studying of medicine, and 
finally drifting into dentistry, which he decided to make his profession, and 
which he has studied and practiced ever since.  He practiced for about two years 
in Havana, Cuba; then returning to the United States he settled in San Jose, 
where he remained for about a year and a half, and then removed to Napa, where 
he has since devoted himself to his profession.  He was married in 1879, to Miss 
Josephine Brito, a native of New York. Her father, Dr. Brito, a native of the 
Island of Cuba, was a naturalized American citizen.  He was accustomed to 
practice dentistry there during the winter, and in New York during the summer 
seasons.  He died six years ago.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891, pp 438-439