El Paso-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Rudy, Frank F. 1857 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

FRANK F. RUDY.

    Frank F. Rudy, who in November, 1916, was elected justice of the peace of
Colorado Springs and who bears the reputation of being a good citizen, loyal and
active in support of the best interests of the municipality, was born in Dalton,
Ohio, in 1857. His father, Isaac Rudy, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in
1818, and in 1847 he was married in that state, after which he removed to
Dalton, Ohio, where he remained for two years, then removing to Mendota,
Illinois, where he engaged in the grocery business for seven years. On the
expiration of that period he took up his abode in Kansas, where he made his home
from 1865 until his retirement from active business life. During that period he
was a resident of Olathe. His last days were passed in Jacksonville, Illinois,
where his death occurred in 1905, and his widow, surviving him for a decade,
died in Jacksonville in 1914.

    Frank F. Rudy pursued his education in the schools of Olathe and Johnson
county, Kansas, passing through consecutive grades to the high school and
afterward taking a course in a preparatory college. He later taught school in
Kansas, and gave his attention to the profession altogether for about eight
years. In 1880 he first came to Colorado, settling in Pueblo, where he remained
for two years, and then removed to Colorado Springs in 1882. In the latter city
he taught school for a year, after which he was engaged in various lines of
business. He was for four years county health officer and in November, 1916, was
elected justice of the peace, in which position he is making a creditable
record. He has always taken an active part in politics as a supporter of the
republican party and has labored untiringly for its interests and welfare. He
served for one term as a member of the city council of Colorado Springs in 1891
and he stands at all times for those interests and activities which are most
valuable in the public life of the community.

    On the 29th of October, 1885, in Johnson county, Kansas, Mr. Rudy was
married to Miss Alice L. Williamson and their children are: Zella, the wife of
Val Shumate; Leila and Leola, twins, the former the wife of Ralph Gossard and
the latter the wife of Leo L. Corporan.

    The family attend the Congregational church, and Mr. Rudy is connected with
the Woodmen of the World and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He
served for five years in the Kansas State Militia, rising to the rank of second
lieutenant, and he was for three years a member of Company A, a cavalry company,
of the Colorado National Guard. He is a man of genuine personal worth, esteemed
for his many excellent traits of character, and his friends and neighbors speak
of him in terms of deepest respect.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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