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Charles Predmore Rhodes © Henbnessey OK Clipper 01-12-1911 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
Charles Predmore Rhodes, a former resident of this city and known to the community by the hotel which bears his name, died in Ponca City, Monday evening, January 2, 1911.
He was born in North Vernon, Sussex County, New Jersey, on November 27, 1847. His parents were John and Margaret Rhodes and he was the third child of a family of five children. While he was still young, his parents moved west to Millport, New York, where a few years later the mother sickened and died. Hardly had the grief for this first separation been assuaged before Charles and the younger brother, Will, found developing upon their young devices the support of an invalid father. By the time he was 14 Charles was a complete orphan, thrown upon his own resources. Out of these early exigencies grew the poise, the precision of judgment, the courage, the sympathy, the splendid initiative which characterize his later career.
And 1869 he followed the star of empire westward. After a few months in Oil City Pennsylvania, then in the heyday of its excitement, he moved on to Michigan whither and older brother, D. H. Rhodes, a civil engineer, had preceded him. After a course at a commercial school at Ann Arbor he entered the employ of the Michigan Central Railroad as telegraph operator. In time he became a dispatcher at Ionia. While stationed at Trufant, Michigan, he was married to Anna E. Murphy.
Almost immediately after this marriage, he moved to LaRue, Ohio, where with his brother, Will, he engaged in a general mercantile business. Soon, however, the lure of the West became insistent, and in 1886 he moved to Kingman, Kansas. His brother, D. H. Rhodes, was at that time building the Wichita and Western branch of the Santa Fe railroad and Charles again undertook station service at the front. Upon the completion of the line he and his brother Will open the general store in the village of Cairo, Kansas, about 12 miles east of Pratt. Six years later he opened the Park Hotel at Kingman. In 1894 he moved to Hennessey, Oklahoma, where he ran the Rhodes Hotel for six years. From this place he moved to Ponca City where he purchased the Arcade Hotel and ran it until his health failed.
About six years ago he was stricken with apoplexy and though every effort was made, professional skill, personal courage, and constant affectionate attention failed to relieve him. On Monday evening, January 2, hardly beyond the threshold of the New Year, he received the final summons.
Thursday afternoon the funeral services were conducted in the parlors of the Arcade Hotel at Ponca City by the Masonic order of which he was a prominent member. Interment was not made until Saturday afternoon.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Anna E. Rhodes, who is faithful and affectionate devotions have won the heart of the community, and by two brothers, D. H. Rhodes, of Joplin, and W. A. Rhodes and family of the city.
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