Peter S. Rhodes and Lillian D. Durban

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Husband Peter S. Rhodes ¹

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           Born: 10 Jun 1864 2
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         Father: David Rhodes (      -Aft 1897) 3
         Mother: Helen M. Shafer (      -      ) 3

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Wife Lillian D. Durban ²

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           Born:  - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA
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         Father: Levi D. Durban (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Ella Werner (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Levi Durban Rhodes ²

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2 M Donald Newell Rhodes ²

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General Notes: Husband - Peter S. Rhodes

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His boyhood days were devoted, as was customary, to acquiring an education in the common schools, and at the age of seventeen years he graduated from the high school of New Castle, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and soon after was ready to begin his career. He took up telegraphy in the railway station at home, and when he had become proficient, he entered the employ of the P. & L. E. R. R., and was put in charge of the station at Davis Island Dam. Other places where he was sent for varying periods were Hazelton, Fallstown, and New Castle Junction. At the last place, he left the service of the railroad company and accepted a position with the Western Union Telegraph Co. at New Castle. In 1882, he was offered a situation in the office of the train dispatcher at Youngstown, Ohio, where he seized every chance of improvement, and was rewarded for his efforts in the short space of six months by being appointed extra dispatcher. He continued in the same place for twelve years.
He and his family were earnest workers in the Presbyterian Church. Politically, Mr. Rhodes' political sympathies were Republican, and in 1897 he was honored by an election to the presidency of the borough council. He was a member of the social orders: Mahoning Lodge, No. 243, F. & A. M. of New Castle; and Amazon Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Mahoningtown. He had a pleasant and commodious home on Railroad Street, Mahoningtown.

1 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 45, 239.

2 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 46.

3 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 236.