Background
Rhoads, Charles James was born on October 4, 1872 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James E. (1st president of Bryn Mawr College) and Margaret Wilson (Ely) R.
Rhoads, Charles James was born on October 4, 1872 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James E. (1st president of Bryn Mawr College) and Margaret Wilson (Ely) R.
Graduate William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, 1889. Bachelor of Arts, Haverford College, 1893 (Phi Beta Kappa).
Began career as a clerk for Girard Trust Company, Philadelphia, 1893. Assistant treasurer same, 1898-1900, treasurer, 1900-1904, vice president, 1904-1914 (resigned). Governor Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, October 8, 1914-February 1918.
President Central National Bank, Philadelphia, 1920.
Director Girard Trust Company, Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company (Philadelphia). Philadelphia Saving Fund Society.
Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Fire. Partner Brown Brothers & Company, bankers, 1921-1929.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1929-April 21, 1933.
Chairman Philadelphia County Relief Board, April 1934-July 1935. Acting treasurer Y.M.C.A, February-May 1918. Chairman Young Men's Christian Association War Prisoners Aid, and chief Friends Bureau, American Red Cross (France) for relief and reconstruction work in devastated France, May 1918-September 1919.
Member of board of managers, Haverford College. Member American Academy Political and Social Science (treasurer), History Society Pennsylvania, American Philosophical Society, Council Foreign Relations. Orthodox Quaker.; Clubs: Philadelphia, University, University Barge, Merion Golf (Philadelphia).
Married Lillie Frishmuth, November 9, 1912 (deceased, May 17, 1951).