Hawthorne, Julian, Ed. "The History of Washington: The Evergreen State from 
Early Dawn to Daylight." New York: American Historical Publishing Co., 1893. p. 
701-2.

RODMAN, GEORGE W., City Clerk of North Yakima, was born in New York in 
1844.  His father, Nicholas Rodman, is a native and resident of the Empire 
State, still living at the ripe age of eighty-four; his mother, Phoebe 
(Lamonte) Rodman, was also born in New York.  Educated in the public schools 
and the Harnaby Academy, near Oswego, Mr. Rodman took a classical course 
and graduated with honor in 1860, supplementing the knowledge thus obtained 
by entering a commercial college at Poughkeepie.  He began his business life 
at North Adams, Mass., as book-keeper for the Graylock Woollen Mills Company.  
After three years in this employ he went, in 1864, to California, prospected 
through the mining camps of that State and Nevada, became a book-keeper in 
San Francisco to a manufacturing company, then in the First National Bank as 
Assistant and finally full Cashier.  In 1878 ill health compelled his return to 
the East.  Its restoration brought him back to California again, where he 
remained a year and then migrated to Washington Territory in 1880, locating 
first in Walla Walla, then in Klickitat County, where some years were passed in 
farming, school-teaching, and the placing of mortgages and loans.  In 1888 he 
came to North Yakima, and was immediately elected City Clerk, which office 
he still continues to fill.  Mr. Rodman married in 1867, at San Francisco, to Miss 
Albertine Eschenburg, the daughter of a diplomat, who was at one time Minister 
to Mexico and various South American countries.  Five children grace their union.  
Mr. Rodman is a man of property, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and a 
Republican in his political faith.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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