John Ruthrauff and Margaret Jane Rankin

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Husband John Ruthrauff ¹

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           Born: Nov 1816 - Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA 2
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• Note: This may be the same person as : John Ruthrauff.

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Wife Margaret Jane Rankin ¹

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         Father: Andrew B. Rankin (1791-1875) 3
         Mother: Margaret Ritchey (1794-1874) 3

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Children

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1 F Mary B. Ruthrauff ²

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         Spouse: S. J. Strete (      -      ) 2

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2 M William Ruthrauff ²

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         Spouse: Florence Hammond (      -      ) 2

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3 F Margaret Ruthrauff ²

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         Spouse: Frederick Fletcher (      -      ) 2

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4 M John R. Ruthrauff ²

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         Spouse: Margaret Lawshe (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - John Ruthrauff

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He was reared until eighteen years of age on the old homestead of his grandfather. When about eighteen years of age he engaged as a clerk at Loudon, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in a general store, and in 1838, in partnership with his father, opened a store at Marion. In 1846 he sold out the store and began farming on the Frederick farm, three miles north of Greencastle; abandoning this he bought 150 acres of land on the Leitersburg road, living, however, in Greencastle. This farm he sold, then bought the first farm east of town on the Waynesboro road, of fifty-six acres, which he afterward increased to seventy-four acres. He then became largely interested in dealing in stock and wool, in which he continued for twenty-three years. Mr. Ruthrauff was a Republican in politics.
During the Civil War he took an active part in upholding the Union cause; was active in securing enlistments and in filling the Antrim Township first and second quotas; was appointed and acted as treasurer of the committee for collecting money to pay bounties. April 17, 1861, an agreement was made and signed by sixty-seven citizens of Greencastle, agreeing to support the families of the members of the Greencastle company during their absence in defense of their country. Dr. William Grubb's name was first, and Mr. Ruthrauff's second on that list. This document was written and signed three days after the firing on Fort Sumter. Mr. Ruthrauff, with the assistance of the loyal citizens of the township, raised $31,000 in four days, 16th to 19th of April, 1864, and in four days after had paid sixty-two men $500 each, and they were mustered into the United States service. The devotion to the Union cause was such that the above named amount was raised without any assurance of it being refunded, but it depended on the Legislature to pass a special act authorizing the school board of the township to levy, collect and pay over to the treasurer the above amount, which was accomplished the following spring, and the amount returned to each one of the contributors.
Mr. Ruthrauff lost considerable by Lee's army, and was obliged to "make himself scarce" when it was in Pennsylvania.
He and his family were members of the Presbyterian Church.
He later lived on the old Rankin homestead, which Squire Rankin bought in 1822. [HFC 1887, 725]

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Jane Rankin

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Greencastle, Franklin Co, PA

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 712, 725.

2 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 725.

3 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 712.