BIO:  Charls H. RUFF, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 368

CHARLES H. RUFF, clerk of the commissioners of Adams County, Gettysburg, was 
born in Hamilton Township, Adams Co., Penn., September 2, 1842, a son of John 
and Elizabeth (Ehehart) Ruff, the former a native of Germany, and the latter of 
Pennsylvania, of German descent.  John Ruff was the father of ten children who 
grew to manhood and womanhood, and of whom Charles H. is the fifth.  The father 
followed huckstering for many years, at which he was successful.  He gave his 
children the advantages of good schools and they obtained fair educations.  
Charles H. attended the common schools of his neighborhood and the high school 
at New Oxford, and early in life learned the plasterer’s trade, at which he 
worked for four years.  He then went into the huckstering business, which he 
followed seven years, after which, and until 1877, he was employed as a clerk in 
Gettysburg.  In 1877 he embarked in the grocery business, in which he continued 
until 1884, when he sold out to accept his present position.  In 1871 Mr. Ruff 
was married to Miss Emma Howell, by whom he had two children:  Cora A. and Emma 
E.  Mrs. Ruff died in 1876, and in 1879 Mr. Ruff married Miss Sarah E. Culp, 
daughter of Jeremiah Culp, of German descent.  Mr. and Mrs. Ruff are members of 
the Lutheran Church.  Mr. Ruff is prominently identified with the Masonic 
fraternity, of which he is a chapter member.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F. 
of which he is secretary, and of the encampment and division.  He is also a 
member of the Order of Red Men, and a member of East Berlin Beneficial Society.