Jacob B. Rumbaugh and Catherine Myers

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Husband Jacob B. Rumbaugh ¹

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           Born: 1838 - Sugar Creek Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: Solomon Rumbaugh (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Barnhart (      -      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 22 Oct 1858 3

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Wife Catherine Myers ³

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           Born:  - Armstrong Co, PA
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Children

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1 F [Unk] Rumbaugh

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         Spouse: B. T. Kahle (      -      ) 3

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2 F Arvella Rumbaugh ³

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         Spouse: [Unk] Bellis (      -      ) 3

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3 F [Unk] Rumbaugh

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         Spouse: Harry Reddick (      -      ) 3

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4 M Charles Rumbaugh ³

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5 M William L. Rumbaugh ³

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6 F Loretta Rumbaugh ³

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob B. Rumbaugh

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He remained on the home farm helping his father until he was twenty-one years of age and then was married and for one year continued to farm in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He moved then to Jefferson County, where he worked at lumbering and cut timber in the woods until 1862, when he decided to enlist for service in the Civil War. He entered Company I, One Hundred Forty-eighth Regiment, Penna. Volunteer Infantry, on August 15, 1862, and served for two years and eleven months, seeing very hard service, participating in such battles as Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. After the latter he was confined to a hospital for four months and reached his regiment in November, in time to take part in the battle of Mine Run in the following month, and went through the exhausting campaign of 1864, which included the battle of the Wilderness, that of Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, siege of Petersburg and the struggle on the Weldon Railroad. In this raid he was captured by the Confederates, in company with 1,400 other Union soldiers, and he was imprisoned at Libby and Belle Isle, later taken to Salisbury, North Carolina, and was finally paroled but was then prostrated with typhoid fever. The war had closed by the time he was able to travel and he was honorably discharged at Pittsburgh.
Mr. Rumbaugh returned to Armstrong County and until 1868 he continued to engage in farming there and then moved to the Parker oil field and continued in the oil business in both Armstrong and Butler Counties until 1876, when he moved to Chicora. For three years he conducted a laundry business but then sold out and, with the exception of his oil interests, was not concerned in any business, living in comfortable retirement. He was a stanch Republican and in 1905 he was elected judge of elections in Donegal Township, being the only Republican judge of elections ever elected in that township. In the spring of 1908 he was elected constable in Donegal Township.

1 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1125.

2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 656.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1126.