- PHILLIP RHODES, farmer, Secs. 18 and 19; P.O. Janesville;
born in Yorkshire, Eng., Dec. 26,
- 1818; lived on a farm; he received a common school education;
at an early age he commenced farming in Yorkshire, which occupation
he energetically followed until the spring of 1841, when he moved
to Canada and located in Brockwell, where he lived till 1843;
leaving there, he went to St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., where he engaged
at farming and followed it until 1847, then came to Chicago;
was proprietor till 1848 of a hotel on the Galena & Chicago
Railway, sixteen miles form Chicago; in 1850, he went to Freeport,
Stephenson Co., Ill., where, in partnership with his brother
William H., he bought a farm of 400 acres, wild prairie land,
which they improved; in 1853, Phillip sold his interest in the
farm, then went on a gold expedition to Australia; stayed at
Melbourne only a short time, then wandered over Australia, prospecting
sometime afterward engaged in farming in Stephenson Co., Ill..
Married in Freeport, Dec. 8, 1861, Miss Mary LOWES, who was
born in Lincolnshire, Eng.; they have five children - Charles
L., Edgar, Carrie E., Frederick and Nellie. Mr. R. is taking
much pride in giving his children a good education; he came from
Freeport with is family to Rock Co, Wis., in 1874, and bought
a farm of Capt. CANGELL in Harmony of 105 acres; land all under
cultivation; raises a variety of crops; he is trying tobacco
this year; his farm is well improved. Republican.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 895.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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