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Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 761.

E. M. RHODES

     is the well known and popular proprietor of the Bay View Hotel, the best
hostelry in Bay City and a fine summer resort on the Tillamook Bay. His birth
occurred in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, on the 27th of January, 1852, his
parents being Benjamin and Mary (Myers) Rhodes, who were likewise natives of the
Keystone state and are now deceased. The father, an agriculturist by occupation,
was born about 1816 and passed away in 1896. The record of his children is as
follows: David, who is a resident of Pennsylvania; Catherine, the wife of L. P.
Postlethwaite, of Pennsylvania; Henry, living in Manton, Alberta, Canada; E. M.,
of this review; John, who passed away in Pennsylvania, leaving a family of six
daughters; Calvin, who makes his home in Valley City, North Dakota; Thaddeus,
who resides in Pennsylvania; and Coring May, the wife of William Swigert, of
McVeytown, Pennsylvania.
     E. M. Rhodes supplemented his preliminary education, obtained in the common
schools of his native state, by a course of study in the University of New York,
specializing in medicine. After leaving college he practiced medicine for one
year in association with an uncle who was a physician. In 1880 he embarked in
the drug business at Mount Union, Pennsylvania, successfully conducting an
establishment of that character for twenty-five years. On the expiration of that
period he came to Portland and found Oregon so alluring that he closed out his
business in Pennsylvania and took up his permanent abode here. He first
purchased a store and fixtures and for one year conducted a confectionery and
lunch establishment in the Rose city. Subsequently he became the proprietor of a
rooming house on Sixteenth and Morrison streets and after disposing of the same
purchased the Roy Crest at Twelfth and Yamhill streets in Portland. Selling that
place, he bought the Bay View Hotel, which is conceded to be the best hostelry
in Bay City and a fine summer resort on Tillamook Bay. The hotel is extensively
patronized, for its genial proprietor neglects nothing that can add to the
comfort of his guests.
     On the 14th of February, 1890, Mr. Rhodes was united in marriage to Miss
Minnie McClure, a native of Pennsylvania and a daughter of Dr. James Monroe and
Elizabeth (Potter) McClure, who traveled life's journey happily together for
fifty-six years. The father, a practicing dentist of Johnstown, Pennsylvania,
was born in 1825 and died in 1895. The mother, whose birth occurred at
Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1824, was called to her final rest in 1899. Both the
paternal and maternal grandfathers of Mrs. Rhodes participated in the
Revolutionary war. She was one of a family of twelve children, five of whom are
yet living, namely: Conscer, a resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania; Clarence, of
Portland, Oregon; G. A., living in Braddock, Pennsylvania; C. P., of Lewistown,
Pennsylvania; and Mrs. Rhodes. Three sons of the family÷Theodore, Thomas and
Conscer÷served in the Civil war and were incarcerated in Libby prison. Our
subject and his wife have one daughter, Esther, who is now the wife of J. H.
Joyce, manager of the Hazelwood Cream Store in Portland.
     Mr. Rhodes gives his political allegiance to the republican party, while in
religious faith he is a Presbyterian. He is a man of marked force of character,
of helpful and courteous bearing, of strong determination and honorable purpose,
and these qualities have been the elements in a career which is most commendable
in all of its phases.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in August 2007 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.