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


JOHN A. RUTH school teacher, P.O. Riegelsville, residence 
Monroe, Pa., was born October 8, 1859, in Durham township, 
where he was reared and educated.  His parents are Charles 
and Matilda Ruth, natives of Bucks county.  His grandparents 
were Peter and Mary Ruth, and Peter and Elizabeth 
Fackenthall, all of Bucks county.  Our subject has been a 
teacher for ten years and has done much to advance the 
younger element here.  He is a member of the Lutheran church 
and in politics a republican.  He has for many years made a 
specialty of scientific studies, and from his youth he has 
been a collector of Indian relics and other curiosities, as 
his business and home duties gave him leisure.  The cabinets 
which he has collected would be considered wonderful 
anywhere and they are especially so considering the retired 
locality in which they have grown up.  His collections 
illustrate the sciences of archaeology, mineralogy and 
botany.  His collection of Indian relics comprises about 
3,300 specimens, many of them very rare and valuable, and 
including about 1,500 arrow heads.  His cabinet of minerals 
consists of over 400 specimens.  During the past two years 
he has collected about 700 botanical specimens from the 
flora of Durham and Nockamixon townships.