According to the register of Howard Street Chapel, Jehoiada Alsop Rhodes was born on 13 June 1829, the son of silversmith William Rhodes and his wife, Ann.  Jehoiada specialised in saw and punch-piercing silver and electro-plate products.  In 1847, when he was aged 18, he married at Manchester Cathedral Sarah Betts Bradshaw, the daughter of William Bradshaw, a cutler.  Curiously, the marriage register recorded his father’s name as Thomas (a bookkeeper).  By the 1850s, Jehoiada was working in Carver Street and living in nearby Rockingham Street.   Rhodes’ presumably had family links with Rhodes Bros: certainly, he worshipped at Howard Street Chapel, where he taught in the Sunday School.  He was credited with ‘refined artistic tastes’ and in 1870 won a gold medal at the Workman’s International Exhibition in London (Sheffield Independent, 13 December 1884).  Rhodes registered a silver mark in 1870 at the back of 53 Howard Street, where he employed five men and an apprentice.  In 1878, he partnered James Henry Barber Jun. They registered a silver mark as Jehoiada A. Rhodes & Barber at Britannia Works, 53 Howard Street.  That partnership was dissolved in August 1884.  Jehoiada Rhodes, silversmith, Shoreham Street, died on 2 December 1884, aged 55.  He was buried in unconsecrated ground in the General Cemetery.   He left £335.