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* Source 1 : History of Stark County: with an outline sketch of
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Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881
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Portrait &
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Chicago - Chapman Bros. - 1892
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| JOHN
P. RAUCH, of J. P. Rauch & Co., millers,
Canton; is a native of Columbiana Co., Ohio. He was
born Aug. 31, 1840, and came to Paris, Stark Co., with his
parents in the spring of 1847. He is the second in a
family of nine children born to John Peter and Sarah
(Smith) Rauch. They were natives of Lehigh Co.,
Penn., and Columbiana Co., Ohio. He was a farmer, and
moved to Columbiana Co., Ohio, in the year 1812, and to
Stark Co. in 1847. He was injured in a horse-power
while threshing, and died from the effects in 1865.
Mr. Rauchis now living in Canton. Our subject
remained at home on the farm twenty-eight years. He
received a course of study in the district schools; also at
the union schools of Lisbon, Ohio. He also taught in
all some eight terms. Sept. 17, 1868, he married
Miss Gray, a native of Columbiana Co., Ohio. He
then assisted on his father-in-law's farm, and bought and
shipped fruit East. In January, 1876, he came to
Canton and entered the duties of the office of County
Sheriff, he being elected on the Democratic ticket, and was
re-elected in 1877. Since the expiration of his term
of office, he has been interested as a partner in the
milling business, the firm of J. P. Rauch & Co.
conducting the Stark Mills. At the Democratic County
Convention of 1881, he was n nominated for County Treasurer.
By the marriage there are five children- Bertha G., Anna
M., William W., Ruth A., and Helen. |
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| GEORGE
REX, Assistant Superintendent at C. Aultman &
Co., Canton; is a native of Canton, Ohio. He
was born April 26, 1842, and received his schooling in his
native city. At the age of 18, he apprenticed with
C. Aultman & Co. as a machinist, and in August, 1862, he
enlisted in the 115th O. V. I., continuing in service until
June 25, 1865, when, when he was mustered out, and returned
to Canton, resuming his place with C. Aultman & Co.,
and has continued with the company since, having held the
positions of inspector, foreman of finishing department,
and, for the past five or six years, his present position. |
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REUBEN
ROUSH. Many of the old citizens and pioneers of
Stark County will recognize the name quoted above as that of
a former citizen of high standing, a loyal patriot and a
good man, now gone to his long home. Mr. Roush
left an example of the highest and most pronounced purity of
character as a common legacy, not only to his children, but
to the present generation.
Reuben Roush was a native of Pennsylvania, and
was born Nov. 2, 1817. He was a son of Frederick
and Annie M. Roush, both of whom were natives of the
Quaker State, but of German ancestry. When a boy, our
subject emigrated with his parents to Stark County and
settled in Perry Township. They were counted among the
earliest pioneers, experiencing all the vicissitudes and
trials in the various phases of the development of the
country. Both parents died here. Reuben
did his full share in reclaiming the whole farm from its
original wilderness and was interested in all public
enterprises. His educational advantages were small,
but what he lacked in book lore he made up in grit and
"gumption."
For twenty years Mr. Roush ran a sawmill at
Richville, carrying on in connection with this interest
quite an extensive farming business, his tract of land being
about two miles south of Richville. This he developed
from virgin woodland. He might be considered a typical
Ohio pioneer, having all their push and energy, balanced by
intelligence and discretion. Dec. 25, 1840, he was
married to Miss Lydia Jacoby, a native of this
locality and born June 21, 1821. She is a daughter of
David and Mary Jacoby, both of whom were natives of
Pennsylvania and pioneers in Perry Township. The young
married couple settled in a log cabin in the midst of thick
woods, on the farm where she now resides. She was a
model pioneer's wife and made the best of existing
circumstances, calling upon her ingenuity to supplement the
scanty conveniences of that early day.
Mr. and Mrs. Roush had a large family of
children, of whom the following survive: Mary M.,
now Mrs. John Hartzell; John A., who
married Eliza Foltz; Catherine L., now Mrs.
Newton Koontz; Francis M., who married Clara B.
Wingard; Ann M., the wife of George Rutter; Ida M.,
wife of William Rutter; Calving R., who married
Catherine Nay; Laura M., who is the wife of William
Miller; Lincoln A., who married Ora Smith; and
Minnie E., the wife of Edward Jacoby.
Mr. Roush had served as Trustee of Perry Township,
and was a leading and influential citizen. In
politics, he was a Republican and in his church relations,
he was a Methodist. In the city of Massillon, he was
well and favorably known as a business man, one whose word
could always be implicitly relied upon. In domestic
life, he was a model of tenderness, forethought and
forbearance. As a friend and neighbor, his good
qualities were many, and in his death Perry Township lost
one of her most estimable citizens. His widow still
resides on the home farm, which comprises one hundred and
twenty acres of good and arable land. She has at
command a fund of anecdotes and incidents of pioneer days
that would be valuable to the historical societies of the
State. |
Jackson Twp. -
JACOB RUDY, farmer; P. O.
McDonaldsville, was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Dec. 17,
1808, and is the son of George and Elizabeth Rudy.
Mr. Rudy came to Stark Co., in 1834, and first
settled in Lake Twp., where he lived two eyars, then moved
to where he now lives, and has remained there ever since.
He is the owner of about six hundred acres of well improved
land. In 1842 he married Miss Catharine Bachtel,
daughter of Samuel Bachtel. She was born in
Jackson Twp., and is the mother of three children, living;
Henry, Mary A., wife of S. Kilinger; Elizabeth,
wife of M. Shaffer; and one died, Samuel.
Mr. Rudy is a member of the Reformed Church, and is a
Republican.
~ Page 981 - City of Canton - History of Stark County: with an outline sketch of
Ohio -
Chicago: Baskin & Battey, 1881 |
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