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Butler County, Ohio
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JOHN
F. RADER was born June 25, 1842, in Franklin County, Ohio.
He was the son of Frederick Rader, born in 1803 in Germany, and
Mary Welch, born in 1817 in Ohio. They are now living in
this county, having come here from Van Wert County in 1879.
John F. Rader was married in Delaware County, Dec. 13, 1866, to
Josephine Lewis, daughter of Morgan S. Lewis and Mary Shoemaker,
the former born in 1826 in New York State, and the latter in Ohio in
1828. Their daughter was born in Warren County, Oct. 12, 1848.
Mr. and Mrs. Rader have had six children. Thomas J.
was born Oct. 4, 1867; Jenny L., July 7, 1869; Mary L.,
Sept. 7, 1871; Frederick M., Sept. 20, 1873; John William,
Feb. 5, 1876; and Jane Louisa, June 17, 1879. The first
child was born in Delaware County, and the last in Butler County, the
others in Van Wert County. Mrs. Rader's parents have also
moved to this county, coming here Oct. 1878. John F. Rader
was a private in Captain Kimball's company, G, Ninety-sixth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted June 12, 1862, and was engaged in
the battles of Yazoo Swamp, Arkansas Post, Port Hudson, Island No. 10,
siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Mississippi, Banks's expedition to the Red
River, and a great many others. He served until the end of the
war, and was honorably discharged at Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1865, then
returning to his farm, where he still is.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 449 - Hanover Twp. |
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CHARLES
A. LEE REED, M. D., was born at Wolf Lake, Noble County, Indiana,
July 9, 1856. He is the son of Dr. R. C. Stockton Reed, and
Nancy Clark Reed. His literary education, aside from that
obtained in the public schools, was acquired under private
instructors. He received his medical education in the Cincinnati
College of Medicine and Surgery, where his father was a professor of
materia medica and therapeutics, graduating February, 1874. His
taste for this profession was pronounced in early life, in consequence
of which he was put at his medical studies when a mere lad. He
first located in Cincinnati, in 1875, but in 1878 removed to Fidelity,
Illinois, where he remained in practice till the time of his marriage.
He then returned to Butler County, settling in Hamilton. He was
professor of pathology in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and
Surgery, from 1877 to October, 1878, having been elected to that
position by the trustees. He resigned when he went to Illinois.
He was elected professor of obstetrics and diseases of women in the same
institution in June, 1882, and is now discharging the duties of the
place. He was elected a member of the Ohio State Medical Society,
in 1874, and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. He is the editor of the Clinical Brief,
formerly the Sanitary News, and has displayed, in its management,
industry, learning, and tact. He was married, at Otterville,
Illinois, May 30, 1880, to Miss Irena A. Dougharty daughter of
John G. Dougharty. The family is Scotch, coming originally
from the town of Haddington.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 394 - Hamilton Twp. |
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R.
C. STOCKTON REED, A. M., M. D., of Fairfield Township, was born
in Franklin, Warren County, Ohio, Feb. 2, 1825, and was the third child
of Gilbert and Catherine C. Reed. His father, Gilbert
Reed, was born in Delaware, in 1800, and was a member of the Reed
family of that State that was identified with the Revolutionary
movement twenty-four years before his birth. He was but
little more than an infant when his parents died, and he was adopted
into a Quaker family, living not far from Trenton, New Jersey, where he
remained until near his eighteenth year. It was a condition of
young Gilbert's adoption that he was to be received into the
family as a member, and granted a liberal amount of schooling; but each
of these conditions was grossly violated by his guardians, from whom he
took his departure, without the formality of an adieu, a short time
before the expiration of what was really his servitude.
He went to Philadelphia, and soon caught up in the
general western movement, joined an emigrant party, and made his way
over the mountains to Pittsburg, and thence by Keel-boat down the Ohio
to the city of Cincinnati, arriving at the latter place in 1818.
He remained but a short time in Cincinnati, going thence to Trenton,
Butler County, and subsequently to near Franklin, Warren County, where,
in 1820, he met and married Catherine Cummings Stockton, who was
born in New Jersey in 1798. She was the eldest daughter of John
Robert Stockton by his wife, whose maiden name was Jane Van
Schaick, of New York State. John Robert Stockton was
the eldest son of Philip and Catherine (nee Cummings)
Stockton. Philip Stockton was a member of the New Jersey
family of that name. His brother, Richard Stockton, was one
of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey.
One of his sisters married Dr. Benjamin Rush, and another became
the wife of Elias Boudinot, a prominent New Jersey divine.
But Philip Stockton, being a clergyman of the Established Church
of England, was not as loyal to the American interest as were the rest
of his family; he identified himself with the Tory party, and was a
zealous supporter of the crown. It is believed that at the
conclusion of the war he went to England, where he died, but his family
remained in America.
The family consisted of John Robert Stockton,
Lucius Witham Stockton, William Tennant Stockton, Richard Cummings
Stockton, and Elias Boudinot Stockton. The first named,
after his marriage with Miss Van Schaick, near Schenectady, moved
to Western New York, and lived for a while near Auburn. He thence
started West, and arrived in Ohio in 1816, and located temporarily near
Franklin, Warren County, but soon removed to and occupied a tract of
land still known as the "Stockton section," near Pisgah. It was,
however, during his stay at Franklin that his eldest daughter,
Catherine C., married Gilbert Reed.
A few months after the birth of R. C. S. Reed,
who was the third son, his father removed to Union Township, Butler
County, where he remained until 1832, when, after a few months' sojourn
with his father-in-law, he took his family to Montgomery County, Ohio,
where he purchased land lying on the National Road and the Dayton and
Union Railroad, where he remained until his death, which occurred in
1860. At eleven years of age R. C. S. Reed left his
parents' home in Montgomery County to live with his grandfather near
Pisgah. John R. Stockman was a gentleman of the old school,
but was a haughty and austere man, who would tolerate no opposition to
his authority and allow no dissent to his dictum. It can readily
be understood how an example of this kind should, during a period of
three years, exert a permanent influence upon a susceptible lad.
During his stay at Pisgah, which lasted until the death
of his grandfather, in 1839, young Reed enjoyed the advantage of
the neighboring schools. He stoutly demurred upon his return home
to his father's proposition to put him at a trade. He carried his
point, and was given three more years of coveted opportunities at
private schools. At the expiration of this time he secured a
certificate as teacher, and began that occupation in Preble County,
Ohio. During the few succeeding yeas, he followed the calling of a
teacher in the counties of Preble, Butler, Warren and Hamilton.
While teaching at Sharon, he began the study of
medicine in the office of Dr. Thomas, and prosecuted his studies
subsequently with Dr. S. P. Hunt, at Morrow, and finally with
Dr. Isaac Kay, then of Lewisburg, but now of Springfield, Ohio.
In 1851 he attended lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus,
Ohio, where he enjoyed the teachings of one of the best faculties ever
connected with a medical college. After taking his course at
Starling College, he located in 1851 in the practice of medicine at Wolf
Lake, Noble County, Indiana.
The next year he married Miss Nancy Clark,
daughter of John Clark, of Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio,
and began housekeeping at Wolf Lake, Indiana, where in 1854 his first
son, now Dr. John G. Reed, of Westchester, Ohio, and two years
later his second son, now Dr. C. A. Lee Reed, of Hamilton, Ohio,
were born. On July 14, 1856, his wife died - a loss that for a
time threatened to completely crush him. With his dearest ties now
severed, he abandoned his prosperous practice in Indiana and spent a
period in travel. On his return in 1859, he married Mrs. Susan
W. McClelland at Hamilton, and returned for a time to Wolf Lake,
where his third son, Horace Greeley Reed, was born. In
1860, he removed to Union Township, and has since been a resident of
Butler County. In 1860, he accepted the degree of Doctor of
Medicine from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, with which
institution he soon became closely identified.
In 1862 Dr. Reed was elected professor of
materia medica and therapeutics in the Cincinnati College of Medicine
and Surgery, and held that position continuously for seventeen years,
resigning in 1878, but was immediately elected to an Emeritus
professorship. In 1882 he was appointed by the board of trustees,
of which he was and is a member, to reorganize the faculty, the former
one having resigned in consequence of some internal dissensions.
In this task, as in two former instances of a similar kind, he was
successful, and the institution, through his instrumentality, was again
placed upon a career of prosperity. With the reorganization,
however, Dr. Reed again resumed an active connection with the
institution, assuming the duties of his old professorship. As a
reward for his services, and in recognition, not only of his ability,
Dr. Reed was by his colleagues elected dean of the faculty.
Dr. Reed resides at Jones's Station,
Butler County, in the easy enjoyment of a comfortable home. He has
for several years been out of active practice, and now attends only such
of his friends and neighbors as it may suit his convenience to look
after. Of his children but two, Kate and William,
aged respectively sixteen and thirteen, remained at home. In
politics Dr. Reed is a stanch Republican, and while very liberal
in religion, his tendency is toward Presbyterianism. In 1882 he
received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Summit College,
Kentucky.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 378 - Hamilton Twp. |
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THOMAS E. REED,
physician, was born in this county in 1844. He is the son of
William Reed and Margaret Sigerson, both born and brought up in this
county. After a collegiate education at the Miami University at
Oxford, he began reading medicine in the office of Dr. W. D. Linn,
of Middletown. He then studied at the Hahnenana Medical College in
Philadelphia, where he graduated in the year 1872, afterwards locating
in Vincennes, Indiana, in partnership with Dr. S. C. Whiting,
where he remained two years, since when he has been in active practice
in Middletown. He is a firm believer in the doctrine of Amilia
similibus curantur, and conforms his practice strictly to that of
the homeopathic school of medicine.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 657, Lemon Twp. |
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GEORGE ADAM RENTSCHLER was born in
Schmee, Wirtemberg, County Calw, Germany, on the 8th of July, 1846, and
is the son of Jacob and Catherine Rentschler. His mother died in
his infancy, and in 1852 his father, with a family of seven children,
came to America, George being the youngest. They first settled in
Newark, New Jersey. There he attended school up to the time of his
father's death, in 1858. He then commenced to learn the trade of molding
and pattern making, with Oscar Barnett & Co., with
whom he remained for seven years, learning the business thoroughly.
While serving his time he attended night school, and supported himself
by his earnings.
In 1864 he went to Peru, Indiana, where he was employed
at molding for one year. He then removed to Indianapolis, where he had
charge of the Novelty Iron Works until 1870. From 1870 to 1871 he
was in Cincinnati with Adams & Brith, in charge of their stove
foundry. In 1872 he returned to Indianapolis, acting as superintendent
of the Variety Iron Works, where he remained until their removal to
Hamilton in March, 1873. Mr. Rentschler accompanied them and
remained in the same position until June, 1875, when the firm of Sohn,
Rentschler & Balle was formed. By this time Mr. Rentschler
had acquired a vast stock of experience, and he thought he could utilize
it more thoroughly for himself than by working for another man. Although
the capital of the concern was small, the industry and pains of the
partners supplied all defects. Their chief line was shelf hardware. July
25. 1876, Mr. Balle withdrew, and the new firm was known as
Sohn & Rentschler, and their establishment as the Ohio Iron Works.
In the firm of Hoover, Owens, Rentschler & Co., which
manufactures portable and stationary engines and threshers, Mr.
Rentschler owns a large interest.
In conjunction with Joseph B. Hughes, now the
county auditor, he founded the Royal Pottery Works, which make a class
of goods never before attempted in the United States, and of rare beauty
and utility. He has also an interest in the Phoenix Caster Company, in
an ice house in Fairfield Township, which will hold four thousand tons,
and is interested in what is known as the Cincinnati Brewing Company of
Hamilton. The greatest portion of his time, however, is taken up in his
iron works. Here they manufacture gray .iron castings, make machinery to
order, and supply a large line of shelf hardware. It was some time
before they were able to obviate the difficulties occasioned by a lack
of money, but since that trouble disappeared, they have rapidly
increased, year by year until their business now is of large size.
Mr. Rentschler was married in 1864, at Newark, New Jersey,
to Miss Kate Graf, by whom he had two sons. She
died December 29, 1869. He is a member of the Blue Lodge of Free and
Accepted Masons, of Hamilton, No. 409, and is also a member of Germahia
Lodge, No. 129, of Odd Fellows, at Indianapolis. It will be seen,
therefore, that the enviable position which Mr. Rentschler
now occupies is not owing to any advantages given him by his parents or
his friends, but is the result of his own hard labor and great capacity
for taking trouble. He was only able to invest one thousand dollars in
the establishment when it began, but the value of the knowledge he had
attained can not be estimated. He is thoroughly informed as to every
detail of the business, and has worked at every part of it, so that, if
necessity required, he could do the work with his own hands. His
judgment is excellent, and he looks after every portion. In manner he
is- social and genial, and a visitor at once feels at home hr his
society. Mr. Rentschler is a model of physical strength
and manhood, and his standing in business and social circles in the city
of Hamilton is of the highest order: Without having any particular early
educational advantages, he has qualified himself, by observation and
reading, until he has stored his mind with good and useful knowledge;
and with his practical experience has no superior in his several lines
of business.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 358 - Hamilton Twp |
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CHARLES
RICHTER was born in Trenton, July 4, 1835, being a younger son of
Frederick and Catherine (Long) Richter, and was educated in the
common schools. When he was eighteen he commenced to learn the
trade of blacksmithing, serving a three years' apprenticeship.
After acquiring the art he worked in various places till 1862, when he
enlisted in the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, Company I. He was with that
regiment during all its campaigns, participating in the affairs at
Shiloh and Corinth, and numerous raids and skirmishes. He made the
march to the sea under Sherman. The term of the regiment
having expired, it was mustered out at Sisters' Ferry, Georgia,
February, 1865. He returned to Hamilton, and worked as a
journeyman till about 1872, when he began horse-shoeing for himself,
conducting the place known as the City Horse-shoeing shop, on Third
Street.
Mr. Richter was married, in March, 1866, to
Martha A. Dillon. They are the parents of one son and two
daughters. Frank P. was born June 4, 1867; Bessie,
May 15, 1872; and Jessie Ermina, Mar. 11, 1875. Mrs.
Richter is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Richter
is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Knights of Honor Knights
of the Golden Rule, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 400 - Hamilton Twp. |
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ROBERT H. RIGGS
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 548, Oxford
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HENRY C. RILEY
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Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 558, St. Clair
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JAMES RILEY
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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WILLIAM H. RILEY, the son of John
Riley and Numalennia McGilberry, was born in Hanover Township, July
9, 1846. He was married on the 8th of June, 1869, at Hamilton, to
Hannah S. Beckett, who was born June 1, 1850. Her parents,
James Beckett and Elizabeth Hill, came to this county at an early
period, and are now both dead. Mr. and Mrs. Riley have had
five children. John Sheldon was born Apr. 26, 1872;
Minnie, Oct. 30, 1873; Myrtle Gertrude, Jan. 11, 1876;
James Elmer, Sept. 1, 1878; and William Henry,
Mar. 22, 1880. Minnie died on the 30th of Nov., 1875.
Mr. Riley's uncle Joshua was in the War of
1812, and he had a brother in the war of the Rebellion. He was a
member of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served about two years,
then being killed in the battle of Perryville. Mr. Riley
is a farmer and stock-raiser, and has made a specialty of the latter.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 449 - Hanover Twp. |
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JAMES N. ROBERSON, M. D., of Reily,
was born in Carthage, Hamilton County, Sept. 17, 1842. His father,
Jonas Roberson, was born in New Jersey, emigrating to Ohio in
1804 with his parents and settling on Duck Creek, near Cincinnati.
He learned the plasterer's trade, which he followed till 1850, then
being in mercantile and farming business until 1872, when he retired.
He died May 11, 1874. He was postmaster of Reily for eight years
and preached as a local minister from 1870. He was the
regular minister of the Baptist Church in Reily two years prior to his
death. He was an earnest, zealous worker in the Church, and a
truly Christian gentleman. He was married Oct. 6, 1826, to
Nancy Bryant, by whom he had six children, James being
the only surviving one. The mother died March 16, 1870.
Doctor Roberson attended Beach Grove Seminary, of Indiana,
four years, and read medicine with Doctor Gilchrist, of Reily,
three years. He was graduated at the Ohio Medical College,
of Cincinnati, in 1862, at the age of twenty. In the Fall of 1862
he entered the service as assistant surgeon, being at first with the
sanitary supply, and then in the army of the Cumberland. He
resigned on account of ill health in 1863; in May of that year beginning
practice at Fair Haven, Preble County. In 1864 he was assistant
surgeon in the 156th Ohio National Guard, during its hundred-day
service. In the Spring of 1865 he removed to his present location,
where he has conducted a successful practice ever since. Nov. 29,
1862, he married Mary Frazee, daughter of J. W. Frazee,
and by her was the father of one child, Carrie Edna. His
wife died Nov. 28, 1866, and he married April 4, 1870, Lizzie
Phillips, daughter of Joseph Phillips.
They are the parents of two children, Edward P. and
Georgie E. He is a Master Mason of Oxford Lodge, No. 67, and
is also a member of St. Charles Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 419 - Reily Twp. |
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DANIEL ROGERS was born in New Jersey,
Sept. 7, 1805, and married, Mar. 8, 1837, Lydia Parker, born in
New Jersey, Oct. 28, 1812. He had six children. William was
born Mar. 12, 1838; Mary, born Mar. 16, 1839, died June 29, 1839;
Isaac, born May 31, 1840, is married, and lives in Hamilton, where
he is deputy sheriff; John Henry, born Nov. 14, 1841, is
married, and lives in Fairfield Township; Elizabeth was born Aug.
1, 1843, and is the wife of Henry Moser, living in Hamilton;
James P. was born Jan. 31, 1845, Mr. Rogers came to Butler
County in 1836, and settled in Liberty Township. He was in the
hardware business in Warren County, and was captain of a canal-boat for
many years. He was a blacksmith by trade, but never carried it on
in this county, but followed farming until his death, which occurred
Sept. 24, 1845. He was a very well-known member of the Methodist
Church. His mother came to this county with him. His father
was a soldier, who lost his life while defending the Jersey shore from
invading English. Mr. Rogers came to Butler County with her
mother in 1835. Their son, William, was out in the late
war, enlisting in the Spring of 1862, in the Eighty-third Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and serving as a private till the close of the war, in 1865.
He was discharged in Galveston, Texas. The family have an interest
in ice-houses in Liberty Township , operated under the name of
Frederick Kauffman & Rogers.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 484, Fairfield
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HENRY G. ROSS,
superintendent of the county infirmary, was born in Milford Township on
the 28th of July, 1845. He was married Dec. 24, 1864, to Kate
Williams, who was born in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Dec. 31,
1841. They have had two children. William Henry was
born Oct. 19, 1865, and Harry Olby, July 28, 1876.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 485, Fairfield
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DAVID ROTHERMEL was born in Ross
Township Mar. 30, 1826. His father, Solomon Rothermel, came
of an old Revolutionary stock. Solomon Rothermel's uncle,
Joseph, fought in that memorable struggle, and died a prisoner of
war. He was with Washington at Trenton. Mr.
Rothermel was married Feb. 26, 1857, in Morgan Township, to Mary
Ann Martindell, both in that township Jan. 26, 1834. She is
the daughter of Wilson Martindell and Nancy Martin.
Both are living in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Rothermel have
had nine children. Mary C. was born Nov. 29, 1857; Nancy
M., Sept. 11, 1859; Ann E., Aug. 13, 1861; Flora B.,
Sept. 16, 1863; Cervanida, July 31, 1865; Charles W.,
Sept. 8, 1867; James J., Apr. 14, 1870; Parmelia, June 16,
1872, and Nona, Oct. 3, 1875. Charles W. Rothermel
died Oct. 10, 1868. Mr. Rothermel has been supervisor of
his township for three terms, and is so this year, 1882. He is a
butcher by trade, and followed that business for about ten years, in
connection with farming, but now pays all of his attention to the farm.
He has been a resident of Butler for fifty-five years. His mother
was Christina Brosius. She is now dead, as is his father.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 419 - Reily Twp. |
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CHRISTOPHER RUOFF was
born Oct. 4, 1813, in Wittenurg, Swabia, and married in 1841 Margaret
Deincer, born Oct. 17, 1818, in Wittenburg, Swabia, and married in
1841 Margaret Deincer, born Oct. 17, 1818. She came to Ohio
with her father, George Deincer, in 1837. By her he had two
children. Christina, the wife of Charles Damm, was
born Feb. 7, 1842, and lives in Fairfield Township; Elizabeth,
wife of Jacob Niederman born Feb. 3, 1850, lives in Hamilton, and
came to Butler County in 1852. He settled in the pork-packing
business in Hamilton, and accumulated considerable wealth. He
purchased two hundred and forty-eight acres in Fairfield Township, which
he farmed, becoming one of the wealthiest citizens of the township.
He died Dec. 6, 1866. He was also a partner of Peter Murphy
for two years in the distillery at Hamilton. He was a strong
Democrat.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 485, Fairfield
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JACOB RUPP
was the first member of the Rupp family that came to Ohio. He was
born in Prussia in 1804, and died in 1874. His wife, Elizabeth,
was born in that country in 1804. He had eleven children,
nine of whom are living. John is married and lives in Fairfield.
He was born in 1825. Peter was married and lives in Kansas.
Mr. Rupp was one of the first Germans that came to Butler County.
He emigrated to America in 1830, and settled in Hamilton. He
bought about two hundred dollars with him, with which he bought a lot
and log-house, which he repaired. It is the oldest house in
Hamilton, being of two stories, and had formerly been the court house.
It was the building described in the last paragraph of page 35. He
worked at day's work, and about 1842 moved to Fairfield Township, where
he purchased a farm of L. Davis of sixty-two acres. About
three years after he bought fifty-three acres more of A. P. Miller,
farming the two tracts until his death. He also owned several
houses and lots in Hamilton. He was very industrious. He was
a member of the German Protestant Church. His son, John,
was born in Prussia, Jan. 1, 1825, and was married in 1852 to
Catherine Bridge, born in Prussia, Mar. 5, 1829. They had six
children, five of whom are living. John was born Apr. 25,
1854; Jacob, Jan. 4, 1857; Erasmus, Jan. 7, 1859;
George, Sept. 10, 1861; Katy, Oct. 26, 1864; and Peter,
July 1, 1860. The latter died July 25, 1860. John, the
eldest, is married. Mr. Rupp is a member of St. John's
German Protestant Church. He has a large quarry, the largest in
the county, turning out an excellent quality of limestone. It was
opened first in 1844 by John Woods for the Hamilton Hydraulic,
and in 1851 Mr. Rupp bought the farm of fifty-one acres and the
quarry, having owned it ever since. The quarry contains about
fifteen acres, and over $2,000 worth were taken out last year.
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
Cincinnati, O. - 1882 - Page 485, Fairfield
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MICHAEL C. RYAN
Source: A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio -
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