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F Jane E. Kerrison

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, Ontario, J.H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, pg. 150-151:
James R. Rhodes, a prominent retired farmer of Raleigh township, belongs to an old English family which has been established in Yorkshire for many generations. James Rhodes, his grandfater, with other members of the family, engaged there in the manufacture of woolen goods. He lived to the age of eighty-six years. He was the father of the following named children: John and Thomas, who died in England; James, father of James R.; Joseph, who died in Bristol, England; Samuel, who came to the city of New York, representing the manufacturing interests of the family, and died there; William, who died at Chester, Pennsylvania; Abraham, who represented the woolen concern at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he died; Ann, who died in England; Sarah, who married a Mr. Wilson, at Manchester, England; Mary, who married J. Wright, an officer in the British army; and Elizabeth, Mrs. Ingraham, of Manchester.
     James Rhodes was born in 1799, at Saddleworth, Yorkshire, England, and in 1827 came to Montreal as a representative of the great Rhodes woolen house. There, in 1832, he married Jane E. Kerrison, who was born in 1815, in London, and died aged sixty-five years. In 1842 James Rhodes left the woolen business and went into the employ of Gilmore, in the buying of wheat at Port Hope. In 1853 he came to the County of Kent, where he passed the remainder of his life, finally retiring, and he died there in 1887. In politics he was a Conservative. His family consisted of two children: James R., born in 1833; and Clara, born in 1835, who is the widow of Urotes Slater, and resides in Oakland, California.
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