Bio of RUDOLPH, Phineas S. (b.1839), Wright Co., MN
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265   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY

  Phineas S. Rudolph, early settler and veteran of the Civil war, 
was born in Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1839, son of 
Abraham and Catharine (Rhoades) Rudolph. Abraham Rudolph was a farmer 
and sawmill operator. In 1876 he came to Wright county and purchased 160 
acres of wild land in section 14, South Side township. Phineas was reared 
on the home farm in Pennsylvania. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A, 105th 
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served within forty-one days of four 
years. He went through the entire Wilderness campaign, and participated 
in the siege of Yorktown and the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania 
Court House, North Anne, Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom, and the nine months'
siege of Petersburg, and was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. 
After being mustered out at Braddocks, Pa., in July, 1865, he returned 
to Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, and engaged in farming on a seventy-
acre farm which he had previously purchased. He was married December 27, 
1865, to Letitia Groves, daughter of Daniel and Jennie (Cannon) Groves, 
farmers of that county. Mrs. Letitia (Groves) Rudolph died October 13, 
1881. February 13, 1883, Mr. Rudolph married Mrs. Mary E. Patterson, 
daughter of Solomon and Leah (Butler) Nolf, farmers of Armstrong county, 
Pennsylvania. Mr. Rudolph remained on the farm in Pennsylvania until l888.    
In that year he came to