Daniel L. Rudy

As printed in 1910

DANIEL L. RUDY.

One of the substantial as well as one of the most experienced and skillful farmers of Sugar Creek township, Wayne county, is Daniel L. Rudy, who has spent the major part of his long and eminently useful and active life within the borders of this county, although he is a Buckeye by adoption only, having been born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1834, the son of Christian and Barbara (Myers) Rudy, the former born in 1790 and the latter in 1795. When Daniel L. was seven weeks old his parents migrated overland to Wayne county, Ohio, and settled in Sugar Creek township in section 3, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres in one tract, also sixty acres south of his first purchase. Christopher Rudy lived on the farm where he settled until his death, on July 13, 1875, his wife having preceded him to the silent land October 5, 1858. Mr. Rudy was an honest, unassuming man, a member of the Mennonite church. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, five of whom are living in 1910, namely: David; Mrs. Horner, living in Illinois; Mrs. Suavely, living in Sugar Creek township, this county; Mrs. Barbara Buckwalter, of Trumbull, Ohio; Daniel L., of this review.

Daniel L. Rudy has had the happy opportunity of spending his life on the home place, living now. on the same farm where he grew up from babyhood. He began assisting his father clear and develop the place when he was old enough to work in the fields. He attended the neighboring schools during the winter months and received a good common school education. When seventeen years of age he quit school and gave his entire attention to the farm. He was married December 31, 1857, to Esther Buckwalter, who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1836, the daughter of Jacob and Nancy (Hartman) Buckwalter, both natives of Pennsylvania, having come to Wayne county, Ohio, in 1850. She was reared in Baughman township and received a common school education, principally in Pennsylvania.

After his marriage Mr. Rudy located on the old home place, which he has continued to develop until it ranks with the best improved and most productive farms of the township. He erected a substantial and attractive brick house in 1874, also a large barn. His farm now consists of one hundred and fifty-five acres. He has prospered by reason of his excellent management, and besides retaining his home place he has given each of his children an excellent start in life, equivalent to eighty acres of land. Fortune has favored his family not only in material things but in other ways, but little sickness ever having befallen them, although Mrs. Rudy has been blind for a period of twenty-two years; but she is of a cheerful and happy disposition and a woman of gracious personality.

Mr. and Mrs. Rudy are the parents of the following children: Barbara A., born October 5, 1858, is the wife of E. H. Wenger; Jacob, who was born November 7, 1859, married Mary Plorst; Albert, who was born November 18, 1860, married Margaret Saurer; Christ, born May 23, 1862, married Catherine Sprankle; Clara M., born June 5, 1866, is the wife of Jacob Steele.

Members of this family belong to the Mennonite church. In politics Mr. Rudy is a Republican, but not an office seeker, having always found enough at home to keep him busy. This family is one of the best known and most highly respected in the eastern part of Wayne county.

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As printed in History of Wayne County, Ohio (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.