Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Ruger, Daniel H. February 22, 1814 - 
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DANIEL H. RUGER, farmer on sec. 32, Aetna Tp., was born in Dutchess Co., N.Y., 
Feb. 22, 1814.  His parents 

were David and Elizabeth (Hagaman) Ruger, and were natives of New York.  When 
Mr. Ruger was two years old 

his father died, and his mother was left with the care and responsibilities of 
maintaining and educating 

her children, which she did in the most creditable manner.  When Daniel H. was 
16 years old he was 

apprenticed  to Wm. Phillips, of his native town, and remained in that service 
until the death of Mr. 

Phillips, which occurred in the winter of 1831.  Soon after that he went to 
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he 

stayed but a few months, then set out to pursue his trade on the "tramp 
journeyman" plan.  In 1848 he came 

to Cass Co., Mich., and purchased property in Edwardsburg, where he remained 
four years following his 

profession, and was justly considered the leader in the calling which he 
pursued.  He next went to 

Elkhart, Ind., and was there settled until 1863.  In that year he enlisted in 
the Union army, enrolling in 

the First Michigan Sharpshooters.  He reached a Sergeant's rank and was 
discharged July 23, 1865, having 

been in six severe engagements, each time escaping unhurt.  Leaving the army 
he went to Cassoplois, this 

State, resumed his trade and operated there seven years.  In 1872 he came to 
Aetna Tp. and settled on 160 

acres of land on sec. 32, where he has since operated in farming and lumbering.

Mr. Ruger was married in Ontario Co., N.Y., March 13, 1836, to Mary L., 
daughter of Newberry and Mary 

(Smith) Lay.  The parents were natives of New York, where Mrs. Ruger was born 
July 6, 1818.  Of 13 

children born of this marriage, seven are living:  Catharine, born May 21, 
1838; Mary E., May 2, 1840; 

Arabella, Jan. 7, 1842; Alice A., Jan. 5, 1844; Edna, Jan. 30, 1852; Lillian 
A., Jan. 10, 1854; Clementina 

A., Oct. 10, 1856.  Silas H. was born April 1, 1837, died in infancy; Anna, 
born March 25, 1840, died in 

July, 1872; Daniel Smith, born Dec. 10, 1850, died in 1852; Dan S., born July 
6, 1858, died May 1, 1859; 

Louis, born March 15, 1860, and Josephine A., born Feb. 2, 1848, are deceased.

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8813 Portrait & Bio Alumbum of Mecosta Co., MI.

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