Robert Russell Rhodes ID: 5125 | This file appears in: Robert Russell Rhodes Mansion The oldest son of Daniel Pomeroy Rhodes and Sophia Russell, Robert Russell Rhodes was born in Ohio City in 1846. He was named after his mother's father, Robert Russell, who had died in 1825 in Connecticut. After her husband's death, Sophia's mother, Abigail Barber Russell, left Connecticut and joined her father Josiah Barber and her younger siblings in Ohio City. There, Sophia met and married Danield Pomeroy Rhodes, a recent migrant to the area from Vermont. | Source: Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections. Download Original File SourceCleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections. "Robert Russell Rhodes" appears in: Robert Russell Rhodes Mansion