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Frederick Hastings Rindge was the son of Samuel Baker and Clarissa (Harrington) Rindge of Cambridge, Massachussets, where he was born. Five brothers and sisters all died in childhood. His father, a shipping merchant and banker, was able to afford him ample opportunities for study and social life.
He entered Harvard, but because of precarious health spent most of his senior year in Florida; he was granted his degree in 1890 as of the class of 1879.
After a winter in Colorado, New Mexico, and California, in 1881 he entered a Boston commission house. Finding the northern climate injurious, however, he went to Los Angeles in 1882 and passed much of his time during the following years in California.
In 1890 he purchased a ranch of 13, 000 acres near Santa Monica, in the mountain canyon of Rancho Topango Malibu, where he built a beautiful mansion and raised fruit, cattle, and angora goats. In 1895 he named his home "Laudamus Farm. " Becoming deeply interested in aboriginal life on the Pacific coast, he made a collection of implements used by native races; these are now in the Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
Another of his avocations was numismatics, and his collection of over 5800 coins is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1887, when he was twenty-nine years old, he inherited $3, 000, 000 from his father. After long consultations with Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mayor William E. Russell, he gave to Cambridge, Massachussets, funds for a public library, with 141, 000 square feet of land; a school for manual training, a branch of instruction in which he was greatly interested; and a city hall. These he called his "didactic public buildings, " possibly because they bear long moralizing inscriptions, cut in the walls and gilded.
Rindge's religious tendencies were marked and he wrote a number of books giving expression to his beliefs and feelings - all privately printed - among which were Can You Read Your Title Clear to a Mansion in the Sky? (1889), and The Best Way (1902). He built Methodist churches in Cambridge and Santa Monica to foster the spread of his own faith. Sunday schools in the South and the Young Men's Christian Association movement shared in his generosity.
In 1888 he gave Lowell, or Cat, Island, comprising fifteen acres, to the Children's Island Sanitarium at Salem, Massachussets He also made donations to the American University, Washington, D. C. , and to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. In business his mind worked along constructive lines, and he fostered companies dealing with electricity, oil, artesian wells, navigation, and insurance. The Middle River Navigation & Canal Company and the Rindge Navigation & Canal Company, two concerns in which he was largely interested, reclaimed about 25, 000 acres of bottom lands near Stockton, Cal.
The Artesian Water Company, which he also controlled, carried on a real estate and colonization project in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, covering a million acres of choice lands. He was proud of his New England origin, and belonged to many patriotic societies. Until the destruction of his home by fire two years before his death, he continued to live on his ranch. Thereafter he resided at Santa Monica, and later at Los Angeles. His summers were spent at Marblehead, Massachussets.
He died suddenly at Yreka, Siskiyou County, California, where he had gone on a business trip.
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On May 17, 1887, he was married at Trenton, Michigan, to Rhoda May Knight, and they had three children.
