Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Rutti, Jacob 1880 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter

JACOB RUTTI.

    Jacob Rutti, one of Franklin township's well-known and substantial farmers
and the proprietor of a fine farm of three hundred and twenty acres there, is a
native of the republic of Switzerland, but has been a resident of this country
since the days of his young manhood. He was born on February 2, 1854, son of
George and Mary (Flure) Rutti, who were the parents of twelve children, of whom
the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth and all of whom are
still living save one.

    Leaving his native land in 1878, Jacob Rutti came to this country and
located in Wisconsin, where he began working in a cheese factory and where, in
1882, he was married. Two years later, in 1884, he and his wife came to Kansas
and settled on an eighty-acre farm in this county. In 1899 Mr. Rutti bought the
quarter section of land in Franklin township on which his present home is
situated and there he has lived ever since, long having been regarded as one of
the leading farmers^ in that part of the country. He has prospered in his
affairs and has added to his original purchase until now he is the owner of a
farm of three hundred and twenty acres, all of which is under cultivation and on
which, in addition to his general farming, he is somewhat extensively engaged in
the raising of cattle. He has improved his farm in excellent shape and he and
his family have a very comfortable home.

    Jacob Rutti has been twice married. As noted above, it was in 1882, while
living in Wisconsin, that he married Mary Haffner, who was born in that state in
1858, and to that union five children were born, namely: Lizzie, who married
Henry Toeter, of Franklin township, this county; Anna, who married M. McDonald,
a farmer, living near Oketo; Rosa, who married F. Keller, of Center township;
Frank, deceased, and Henry, deceased. The mother of these children died in 1890
and in 1894 Mr. Rutti married Amelia Muller, who was born in Switzerland on
August 11, 1860, and who came to this country in 1894 and to this union two
children have been born, Otto and John, both of whom are at home, taking an
active part in the cultivation of their father's farm.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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