Lyman RHOADES (Jr.) was born on 06 Oct 1847 and his parents were Cornelia Rachel (HARSEN) and Lyman RHOADES (Sr.) b: 1817. [1]
Lyman RHOADES (Jr.) married on 15 Jan 1880 to Elizabeth NASH (1856-1919) of New York City and they had 3 children [2] ...
He was a successful banker, presiding on the boards of several financial institutions including the Greenwich Savings Bank and the Equitable Trust Company. He was among New York City's 19th century business and social elite.
He died on 06 Mar 1907 while on vacation in Camden, South Carolina [3] and was buried at the Hillside Burial Grounds in Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut. [4] [5]
"RHOADES, Lyman, banker, died at Camden, South Carolina, March 6, 1907, aged 58 years. He was elected an Annual Member of this Society March 27, 1878, resigned Feb. 24, 1882; reelected March 10, 1893, resigned Oct 12, 1897. Lyman RHOADES was born in Catskill, NY and was the son of Lyman Rhoades, senior, member of the Pearl Street dry goods firm of Rhoades, Weed & Co.,and a brother of John Harsen RHOADES, the banker, who died Dec. 6, 1906, and a grandson of Cornelius HARSEN of Harsenville, a section of Bloomingdale, a colonel in the War of 1812, who was in charge of the islands in New York harbor. Mr. RHOADES was of Welsh extraction and was born Oct. 6, 1847, at Catskill, NY, where his parents were sojournmg. He inherited land at Harsenville, the center of which was 72d Street and Broadway, which has become a valuable and conspicuous portion of the metropolis. He married Jan 15, 1880, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Payne NASH, the noted lawyer; her mother being Catharine McLEAN, daughter of John McLEAN, of Salem, NY. He left him surviving Lyman, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Equitable Trust Co., Kathenne, and Stephen Payne RHOADES. Mr. RHOADES was President of the Mercantile Sate Deposit Co. and of the Mercantile Electric Co., and Trustee of the American Deposit and Loan Co., the Home for Old Men and Aged Couples, and the Society for the Relief of the Destitute Blind. He was a member of the Lawyers', Richmond Golf, Stockbridge (Mass.) Golf, and Barnard Clubs, the NY Historical Society, the St.Nicholas Society, the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Society of the War of 1812. He was deeply interested in historical and genealogical research and was largely connected with the Bloomingdale district of this city through the Dikemans, Cozines, Hoppers and Harsens, all of whom owned large farms there in early times. As president, for 25 years, of the Safe Deposit Co., he presided over the affairs of the company with such consummate ability as to make him the recognized head of the safe deposit business of this country. As a member in either business or charitable society Boards of Management, by his strict sense of justice, his genial and pleasant manner and good judgment, he endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact." [6]
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