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July 16, 1862, and commanded the Seneca on the Soutli Atlantic blockading squadron late in 1862. He was promoted commander, Jan. 2, 1862, and in Du Font's attack on Cliarleston, S.C., April 7, 1863, he commanded the Keokuk, which made the nearest approacli to Fort Sumter, and was struck ninety times, nineteen shots piercing her armor at or below the water line, and several passing througli her two turrets and disabling the forward gun early in the action. Rhind with difficulty kept the ironclad afloat till the next morning, wlien she sank at the lower anchorage. In this engagement Commander Rliind was wounded. He succeeded Capt. Cliarles Steedman to the command of the double-ender gunboat Paul Jones, and participated in several engagements with Fort Wagner and in the boat attack on Fort Sumter in July, 1863, being subsequently trans- ferred to the command of the Wabash, flagship of the South At- lantic blockad- ing squadron. He commanded the steam gun- boat ^r/aim??! on the North At- lantic blockad- ing squadron, 1864; was on duty in the James river, May to October, 1864, and actively engaged with the Confederate batteries at Deep Bottom, for which he received the thanks of the navy department, Sept. 7, 1864. On Dec. 23, 1865, with a crew of volunteers, he success- fully performed the perilous duty of navigat- ing the po\vde)"-ship Louisiana under the walls of Fort Fisher, where it was exploded with the expectation of destroying the fort. He escaped with his crew to the Wilderness, and steaming to a safe distance witnessed the harm- less explosion, after which the naval fleet stood in toward the fort in close order of division, the ironclads leading; and after the guns were silenced, the Confederate garrison took refuge in their bombproofs. He commanded the receiving ship Vermont at New York, 1866-67; the naval rendezvous at New York in 1868; the U.S. navy yard, New York, 1869-70; was promoted captain, March 2, 1870, and commanded the Congress on the European station, 1872-73. He served as light-house inspector, 1876-79; was promoted commodore, Sept. 30, 1876; was president of the board of inspection, 1880-82; governor of the Naval Asylum in 1883; was promoted rear-admiral, Oct. 30, 1883, and retired, Oct. 31, 1883. He died in New York city. Nov. 8, 1897.

RHOADS, James Evans, educator, was born at Marple, Delaware county, Pa., Jan. 21, 1828;

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son of Joseph and Hannah (Evans) Rhoads. He was educated at the Westtown school, Pa.; graduated in medicine at theUniversity of Penn- sylvania in 1851, and for a short time had charge of the Pliiladelphia dispensary. He was resident physician of the Pennsylvania hospital, 1852-54, and conducted a general practice in Germantown, Philadelphia, 1854-62. In 1860 lie married Mar- garet W. Ely, of New Hope, Pa. After 1862 he devoted himself to philanthroi)y and was for many years secretary of the associated executive committee on Indian affairs, and for several years was president of the Indian Riglits associa- tion. In 1876 he was appointed editor of the Friends' Revieio. and served as the first president of Bryn Mawr college, 1883-94. He also held the professorship of ethics at Bryn Mawr, 1883- 94, and was president of the board of trustees from 1883 until his death. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Union college in 1890. He died at Bryn Mawr, Pa., Jan. 2, 1895.

RHOADS, Samuel, delegate, was born in Phil- adelphia, Pa., in 1711; son of John Rhoads, and grandson of Jolm Rhoads who emigrated from Derbyshire, England, and settled in Pliiladel- phia. He learned the carpenter's trade and be- came a builder. He was a member of the city council in 1741; of the provincial assembly, 1761- 64 and 1771-74, and served as commissioner to the Indians at Lancaster, Pa., and in the West. He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1774-75; was elected mayor of Philadelphia in 1774; was a founder and a member of the board of managers of the Pennsylvania hospital, 1751- 81; a director of the Philadelphia library and an early member of the American Philosophical so- ciety. He died in Pliiladelphia, Pa., April 7, 1784.

RHODES, James Ford, historian, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, May 1, 1848; son of Daniel Pomeroy and Sophia (Lord) Rhodes. He attended the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio; was a special student at the University of the City of New York, 1865-66. and attended the University of Chicago, 1866-67. In 1867-68 he studied in Paris and Berlin, and later made a tour of in- spection of the iron and steel works of Germany and Great Britain. Upon his return to Cleveland in 1868, he engaged in the coal and iron industry. He was married, Jan. 4, 1872, to Ann. daughter of Jonathan F. and Maria Card of Cleveland. He devoted his leisure time to historical research, and in 1885 retired from business and engaged entirely in literary pursuits. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts Historical society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and president of the American Historical asso- ciation in 1899. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Adelbert college. West- ern Reserve university in 1893, and by Harvard