Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Rudy, Scott 1849 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Scott Rudy, a prominent farmer and stock man of Johnson county, resides on the
old Rudy homestead in Spring Hill township. He and his sister, Nannie, and
brother, Taylor, are unmarried and reside together on the old home place. Scott
Rudy was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1849. His parents were Andrew and
Elvira (Ross) Rudy, natives of Pennsylvania, the former of German and the latter
of Scotch-Irish descent. Both the Ross and the Rudy families were pioneers of
Ohio and were neighbors in Holmes county, and therefore Andrew Rudy and Elvira
Ross knew each other in early childhood. They were married in Ohio in the early
forties, and began life on a farm near Millersburg, that State, where they
remained until i860, when they came to Kansas, locating at Spring Hill. They had
eight children. They made the trip west, from Wheeling, Va., on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers to St. Louis, and from there to Kansas City up the Missouri
river and drove by wagon from Kansas City to Spring Hill. In the spring of 1860,
Andrew Rudy, bought 160 acres of land from Benjamin Pancoast. This property has
remained in the Rudy family since, and they have added to it from time to time,
until they now own 480 acres. Andrew Rudy and his wife were real pioneers of
Kansas. They endured all the early-day hardships on the plains, and it is to the
courage, foresight and endurance of such people that Kansas owes its greatness.
When the Rudy family came to Johnson county they were poor and had a large
family, but they had strong hearts and faith in the future possibilities of the
new country, and they went to work with a will, and won. The border war was
raging when they located here in the heart of that conflict and the following
year the Civil war came-on, and the father had his young family to protect and
at the same time had to help defend his country and served in the Kansas
militia, participating in various engagements along the border. Mr. Rudy was a
public-spirited and progressive man, and took a keen interest in all local
matters tending to the development and welfare of the community. He was one of
the organizers and a stockholder in the Grange store at Olathe, and also the one
at Spring Hill. He was also one of the organizers and a stockholder of the
Patrons Bank of Olathe. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
In the early days he was a Whig, but in 1856 when the Republican party, was-
organized he became a Republican and that was his political creed the remainder
of his life. He took an active interest in politics and was one of the reliables
of his party in his home town and county. He died in 1903 and his wife departed
this life in 1912. They were the parents of eight children, as follows:
Priscilla, married R. H. Craine; Taylor, resides on the old homestead; Scott,
the subject of this sketch; James G.; Wayne; Isaac; Nannie resides on the old
homestead and Katie, married B. L. Hibbard, and lives at Colorado Springs, Colo.
In politics Scott and Taylor Rudy and their sister, Nannie, are stanch
Republicans, and are numbered among the leading people of Johnson county. When
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge, of Spring Hill, Kan., was organized,
Priscilla Rudy made the wardrobe and regalias for the members, making no charge
for their work. As a mark of appreciation for her kindness the lodge was named
"Priscilla."

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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