Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Rulon, John M.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Northampton Township


   JOHN M. RULON, farmer, P.O. Breadysville, was born in 
Philadelphia, August 22, 1840, his parents being Ephraim and 
Jane (Megee) Rulon. His paternal ancestors were Huguenots 
and emigrated to this country from Bordeaux, France, in 
1694, and located in Salem county, N.J. Mr. Rulon's 
grandfather on the maternal side, John Megee, was in 
business in Philadelphia at the beginning of the war of 
1812, and having in his business a number of teams, he took 
them, and with the city pieces of artillery, formed a 
battery for the American service. He served through that war 
and after returning was accidentally drowned in the Delaware 
river, at Philadelphia. Ephraim Rulon, the father of John 
M., was born in 1806, and reared in Philadelphia, and 
carried on the business of a coppersmith. He married Jane 
Megee and they were the parents of eleven children, six of 
whom are still living: Mary Spear, of Baltimore, Md.; Samuel 
H., of New Bedford, Mass.; William E., George M., lately 
deceased; Harry E., Edward D., and John M., the subject of 
this sketch, who is a resident of Bucks county, the others 
being located in Philadelphia. Five of these brothers served 
their country in the late war. John M. enlisted in company 
G, 52d Pennsylvania Volunteers, in 1863, and served sixteen 
months in the construction corps; after his discharge he 
volunteered for the defense of the national capital, and was 
three weeks in the trenches though not an enlisted man. He 
came to Bucks county at the age of eleven years and made his 
home with John Buckman, with whom he lived five years; 
leaving him to learn the trade of a machinist at Newtown. 
After the close of the war he returned to Newtown and 
resumed the business of farming. He married Mercy, daughter 
of John Buckman, and she died in 1866. In 1869 he was 
married to Hannah Gubbings, whose parents were born in 
London, England. The children of this union are: Rebie, 
Annie, John B., Alfred B., and Ella, all of whom are living.