Background
Rhoads, Samuel Nicholson was born on April 30, 1862 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles and Anna (Nicholson) Rhoads.
Rhoads, Samuel Nicholson was born on April 30, 1862 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles and Anna (Nicholson) Rhoads.
Educated Friends’ School. Special course in journalism, Harvard. Studies in natural science, Academy Natural Sciences and Museum Science and Art, Philadelphia, and Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh.
1 son, Evan L. Since 1893 has collected museum specimens of natural history in nearly every state in the Union, Canada, British Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, Central and South. America. Life member Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Member American Philosophical Society, American Ornithologists’ Union.
Member American Philosophical Society, American Ornithologists’ Union. Member of Society of Friends, Orthodox branch. Edited reprint of Ord’s Zoology, 1894.
Married Mary A. Cawley, April.