Carroll Brewster Rhoads

Background

Rhoads, Carroll Brewster was born on July 4, 1892 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of E. Clinton and Mary Gertrude (Snyder) Rhoads.

Education

Graduate William Penn Charter School, 1909. Bachelor of Science, University Pennsylvania, 1912. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard, 1915.

Career

Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, 1915. Practiced in Philadelphia. Senior partner Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads.

Member of law faculty Temple University, 1923-1930.

State reporter Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme courts, 1933-1942. Solicitor School District of Philadelphia, 1941-1961.

Director Chairman blood donor program for South.E. Pennsylvania chapter American Red Cross, 1952-1953. Trustee Abington Memorial Hospital, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.

Achievements

• Carroll Brewster Rhoads has been listed as a reputable lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of law faculty Temple University, 1923-1930. Served as First lieutenant Field Artillery of the United States Army, 1917-1919. Member 1st Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry from 1917.

Fellow American Bar Foundation (chairman 1967-1968.

Member Military Order Foreign Wars, Judicial Conference 3d Circuit United States (permanent), American Law Institute, American (past Board of Governors, chairman budget committee, former state delegate to American Bar Association house of deals). Clubs: Philadelphia, Huntingdon Valley Country, Union League (president 1952-1953).

Connections

Married Katharine Gage, April. Married second, Priscilla Chilton Stevens, June 15, 1935. Children: Frederic P. (United States Navy Reserve killed 1943), Carroll Brewster, Margaret Gage (Mistress James Doctorate. Evans, Junior.

Father:

East. Clinton Rhoads

Mother:

Mary Gertrude (Snyder) Rhoads

Spouse:

Katharine Gage

Spouse:

Priscilla Chilton Stevens

child:

Frederic P. Rhoads (United States Navy Reserve killed 1943)

child:

Carroll Brewster Rhoads

child:

Margaret Gage (Mistress James D. Evans Rhoads

child:

Junior Rhoads