Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Ruse, Thomas A. 1839 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

THOMAS A. RUSE.

    Hard and laborious effort was the lot of our subject during' his youth and
early manhood, but his fidelity to duty won him the respect and confidence of
those with whom he was thrown in contact and by patient continuance in well
doing he gradually arose from an humble station to his present high standing
among the leading farmers and stock raisers in the vicinity of Kokomo, Indiana,
always giving his personal attention to his various industries with the same
energy and foresight that have characterized his labors during his busy and
honorable career and having every dollar in his possession as the result of
honest effort, and that, too, in the face of opposing obstacles and not a few
adverse circumstances, he can without ostentation lay claim to the proud
American title of a self-made man.

    Thomas A. Ruse was born in Clinton county, Ohio, August 28, 1868, the son of
Lewis and Sarah (Mayes) Ruse, the father having been one of those patriotic sons
of the North who, in time of the nation's dark days of rebellion, came forth,
offering his services and his life in its defense, serving in the Federal ranks
until the close of the war, having enlisted in an Indiana regiment, from Clinton
county. After the war he returned home, spending the remainder of his life
there, dying at a fairly advanced age, leaving a large family of children.

    In 1872 the subject's mother moved with her children to Howard county,
Indiana, where she resided until she was summoned to another world in 1885.
These parents were people of high integrity and spared no pains in giving their
children every comfort and encouragement to lead noble and wholesome lives,
which influence has been plainly manifested in the subsequent careers of the
subject and his brothers and sisters.

    Thomas A. Ruse was one of the most industrious lads in his native community,
having worked hard to assist his mother in maintaining the home, consequently
his early education was somewhat neglected. However, being an observing man and
an avid reader, he has broadened his intellectual views and is now a well
informed man on diverse topics.

    At one time he met with misfortune and was deprived of all his earthly
possessions, being thereafter compelled to begin life over again as a common
laborer, working for a dollar and twenty-five cents per day; this was as late as
1898, ten years ago from this writing. But in these ten years he has rapidly
accumulated a competence, being a man of extraordinary perseverance, soundness
of judgment and force of character. Today he has three fine farms in Howard
county and is conservatively worth twenty thousand dollars, all of which he and
his wife have made by their individual efforts.

     Mr. Ruse maintains a fine dairy farm, as indicated above, adjoining the
corporate limits of Kokomo, on which he has caused to be erected many
substantial and up-to-date buildings. In the city he finds a ready market for
all the products of his well managed and excellently equipped dairy.

    Mr. Ruse was united in marriage in 1894 to Lula Cook, who was born in
Hancock county, this state, July 22, 1870. She was left without parents early in
life and was placed in the Orphans' Home at Cincinnati, Ohio. This couple
started at the bottom, and so well and wisely have they worked that their lives
have been singularly harmonious and resulted in much good to others as well as
successful from an industrial view-point. They have no children.

    Mr. and Mrs. Ruse are pleasant and affable, their honor and integrity being
irreproachable and they number their friends by the scores.

    Mr. Ruse is affiliated with the Red Men's lodge at Kokomo, and in politics
he is a staunch Republican, being an admirer and supporter of men in public
office whose records are honest and unassailable, and he is widely known as a
man of strictly honest business methods and upright principles in every walk of
life.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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