Isaac Wayne Rutter and Eliza J. Ray

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Husband Isaac Wayne Rutter ¹

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           Born: 30 Oct 1823 - Lancaster Co, PA 1
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           Died: 18 Mar 1912 - ? Fayette Co, PA 2
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         Father: Isaac Rutter (1789-1829) 1
         Mother: Sarah Echard (1791-1876) 1

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       Marriage: 23 Nov 1853 2

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Wife Eliza J. Ray ²

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           Born: 1825 - Lancaster Co, PA 2
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           Died: 13 Aug 1895 2
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         Father: John Ray (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Catherine Slaymaker (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Isaac Wayne Rutter

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He was six years old when his father died and his mother returned to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to a farm fourteen miles east of Lancaster City. He received but little schooling, never attending the public schools, but for a short time was pupil under an Irish schoolmaster who kept a private school in the loft of a neighboring farmer's spring house. He worked at farming, first doing a boy's work, as he advanced in years and strength, became a full hand. He was thrifty, and finally was able to purchase a farm for himself. He then spent four years in the employ of the Rhode Island Locomotive Works, of which his brother George was master mechanic. He was employed as a wood worker. In 1867 he came to Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where for eighteen months he was employed at the bench in the carpenter shops of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad; the company then having to discharge the shop's foreman, Mr. Rutter was without solicitation on his part promoted to that position. He remained with the company twenty-one years and became master car builder of the Connellsville plant. About 1884 he was appointed to a position in the United States internal revenue service under the Cleveland administration, serving as store keeper for the twenty-third district. He then engaged in the real estate and insurance business. In 1890 he was elected commissioner of Fayette County, serving a full term. In 1896 he was elected treasurer of the borough of Connellsville, and continuously served as such by successive re-election until the time of his death, with the single exception of the year 1903. While the foregoing covers the direct services of Mr. Rutter during his forty-five years' residence in Connellsville, it by no means covers the extent of his activities. He was one of six men who organized the first bank in Connellsville, the Yough State Bank, later the Yough National Bank. When the First National Bank was started he transferred his interest to that bank, becoming one of the stockholders. He was also one of the founders of the first daily newspaper in Connellsville, the Connellsville Courier (or News), and a director for several years; also one of the original stockholders of the Connellsville News. During his term of county commissioner a new court house was erected. As president of the board he had intimate connection with the work, and as a practical mechanic was able to judge and insist on proper material and construction. He was made a Mason at Columbia, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1855. He was always a Democrat, and was a member of the Presbyterian church.
Always a worker, his sturdy frame showed little evidence of its weight of years. Every day, six days in every week, found him at his desk in the treasurer's office, transacting, with a clear brain, important city business.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 16.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 17.