Rhoads, Jonathan E.

Jonathan Evans Rhoads was born on May 9, 1907 in a Philadelphia Quaker family that had a traditional interest in medicine. His father, Edward G. Rhoads, and his granduncle James were both physicians. Edward graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1885 and became chief resident at the Pennsylvania Hospital after serving internship first at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He later had his own practice, working in a broad range of fields from obstetrics, pediatrics, sections of internal medicine such as infectious disease, heart and lung diseases, allergy, rheumatology to neurology and psychiatry.

Jonathan E. Rhoads was the last of the five children born to Edward G. and Margaret (Ely) Paxon Rhoads. After studying at the Germantown Friends School for eight years, Jonathan went to the Westtown School that both his parents had attended. He entered Haverford College in 1924 and graduated with B.A. in 1928. He then went on to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he received his M.D. in 1932. His future wife Teresa Folin graduated from the same school in the same year. They married in 1936.

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