Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Rutt, Samuel W 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Samuel W. Rutt, retired farmer, and a resident of Sterling, was born Oct. 7, 
1821, in Lancaster Co., Pa. His parents, Samuel and Susannah (Whisler) Rutt, 
also natives of the Keystone State, were members of the farming community. He 
was brought up, as farmers' sons usually are, at school and on the farm, and 
when 22 years of age he left the parental roof-tree and rented a farm, which 
he conducted for four years. He then bought 65 acres in Lancaster County, and 
followed his calling there for three years, at which time he sold that place, 
and purchased a farm of 120 acres in Franklin Co., Pa., where he followed 
farming another three years. Selling out again, he bought a farm of 125 acres, 
which he kept for five years. Selling out again, he packed up his goods and 
emigrated to the Great West, settling first on a farm in Lee County, this 
State, where he remained 14 years. Finally, in 1878, he came to Sterling, this 
county, and bought a house and lot on the corner of Spruce and Fifth Streets, 
where he now resides. Oct. 12, 1843, he was married to Magdalene Rutt, and 
they have had 11 children, seven of whom are living, namely: Levi R., born 
Aug. 3, 1844; Abraham, Aug. 17, 1852; Henry, July 8, 1856; Leah, April 22, 
1859; Fanny, Jan. 28, 1862; David, May 26, 1865, and Emma, Jan. 19, 1869; Levi 
R. married Elizabeth Weaver, a native of Pennsylvania, and they have two 
children, Ella and Leroy. Henry married Amanda Bressler, of Sterling; Leah 
married Marcus Bressler, a native of Illinois, and is the mother of three 
children, two of whom are living, Lura Belle and Edith Merl; Abraham married 
Maria Landis, a native of this State, and has four sons, Clarence, Amos, Loren 
and Ralph. Mr. Rutt is a Republican in his political principles, and in 
respect to religion he is a member of the Mennonite Church, as is also Mrs. 
Rutt.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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