Background
Rhoads, Joseph Edgar was born on September 11, 1883 in Plainfield, Indiana, United States. Son of Joseph and Harriet E. (Masters) Rhoads.
Rhoads, Joseph Edgar was born on September 11, 1883 in Plainfield, Indiana, United States. Son of Joseph and Harriet E. (Masters) Rhoads.
Educated Westtown (Pennsylvania) school and William Penn Charter School (Philadelphia). Student special courses University of Pennsylvania, 1904-1905.
Chemist, J.E. Rhoads & Sons, Wilmington, Delaware, 1905-1909, assistant superintendent, 1909-1915, partner and superintendent, 1915-1936, partner charge sales and advertising, 1936-1945, senior partner, 1945-1965, director J.E. Rhoads & Sons, Inc., since 1965. Director, member Executive Committee Continental American Life Insurance Company (Wilmington). Board mgrs. Wilmington Institute Free Library.
Director Delaware Museum Natural History. Trustee, director, member Executive Committee Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College.
Served abroad for American Friends Service Committee, 1920. Member American Leather Chemists Association (honorary), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (life).
Married Edith Chambers, September 28, 1909. Children: Joseph, Anna Paxson (Mistress George A. Perera, M.D.), John Biddle, Ruth Chambers (Mistress Thomas Cooch), Edith (Mistress Edith Weiner), Marguerite.