George W. Rutter and Mary Beeson

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Husband George W. Rutter ¹

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           Born: 25 Mar 1803 - Baltimore, MD 1
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           Died: 9 Jan 1897 1
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         Father: Thomas Rutter (      -1819) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Asquith (      -Aft 1819) 1

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       Marriage: 24 Dec 1826 1

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Wife Mary Beeson ¹

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           Died: 1 Jun 1893 1
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Children

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1 M John T. Rutter ¹

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           Born: 14 Jul 1828 1
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           Died: 25 Dec 1833 1
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M George B. Rutter ¹

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           Born: Abt 1838
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           Died: 28 May 1909 1
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3 M Hanson Rutter ²

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           Born: 20 Nov 1848 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA
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         Status: Twin

         Spouse: Virginia "Jennie" Gaddis (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 1883 1

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4 M Skiles Rutter ¹

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           Born: 20 Nov 1848 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Status: Twin

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General Notes: Husband - George W. Rutter

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At the age of six years he was placed in St. Mary's College, Baltimore, from which after many years study he was graduated. At the age of twenty-one years he received his portion of his father's estate, which he at once invested in a stock of dry goods that he shipped to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, over the old National road in the old Conestoga wagons then used for hauling freight. He opened his dry goods store in Uniontown in 1824, conducting business alone until 1830, then admitting John Brownfield, under the name of George Rutter & Company. In 1833 he moved to New Geneva, engaging there in the same business until 1836, then returning to Uniontown, where he became bookkeeper for F. H. Oliphant, the iron manufacturer. In 1842 he leased the Beeson flouring mill, which he operated for two years. About 1848 he opened a grocery store in the Claggett building, later moving to the Dr. Robinson building. In 1885 he erected his own building on West Main street, where he continued in business actively until within a few years of his death, and even after passing his ninetieth birthday, looking after his own affairs; and he wrote in a beautifully clear hand many items of bookkeeping. He was remarkably well preserved both physically and mentally, his memory being unusually good. He was of social, jovial disposition, a good entertainer, and loved in his latter years to recall the happenings of fifty, sixty and seventy years previous. He made many trips east over the "Old Pike" to purchase goods in eastern cities, and was fond of relating his experiences on that old thoroughfare. One of his customers was Dr. Braddie, the famous mail robber of about 1830, who used to send to him for drugs, one in particular that no Uniontown doctor ever used. He was a Whig and Republican, but never sought office. He was strictly temperate, and avoided all excesses that tended to induce disease or shorten life. During his long business life he carefully examined all coins that passed through his hands, selecting for preservation rare or curious ones, either foreign or domestic, and in this way he gathered a most valuable collection that was his pride. A few years before his death he sold the entire collection to an Eastern numismatist. He continued seventy years in business, longer than any other man in Uniontown. The business he founded was continued after his death by his son Hanson.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Beeson

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She was a granddaughter of Henry Beeson, the founder of Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 18.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 29.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 18, 29.