Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....RUTTER, John C. 1826 - living in 1899
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  DR. JOHN C. RUTTER, one of the oldest and highly-respected citizens of
  Bloomsburg, located in the town in 1855 and began the practice of his
  profession. Not only his own success depended on his efforts in this field, but
  that of the Homeopathic School as well, for he was the first Homeopathic
  physician in Columbia County and the only one in the town of Bloomsburg for a
  period of twenty-five years following. He was a faithful student of his
  profession and prosperity has been his reward, as no physician in the community
  ever handled so large a practice.
  
    Our subject was born near the city of Wilmington, Del., December 12, 1826, and
  is a son of Thomas and Sarah (Baker) Rutter. His grandfather was Joshua Rutter
  who with his brother, Thomas, came from England to this country previous to
  1790. Thomas became a merchant of Baltimore, Md. Joshua Rutter bought a farm
  near the city of Baltimore where he spent the remainder of his days in
  agricultural pursuits.
  
    Thomas Rutter, the father of our subject, was born on the old homestead farm
  in 1792 and followed the occupation of a farmer his entire life. Later in life
  he settled near Chester, Pa., where his latter days were spent, dying in the
  year 1848. He formed a matrimonial alliance with Sarah Baker, a daughter of John
  and Lydia (Marks) Baker of Wilmington, New Castle County, Del. This union
  resulted in the following issue: John C., a record of whose life is here given;
  Elizabeth, widow of Daniel Crowther; Margery, widow of a Mr. Holt; Mary, wife of
  a Mr. Taylor; William, who died at an early age; Joshua, who is interested in
  cotton works in the state of Delaware; and Thomas, whose death occurred in
  youth. Mrs. Rutter is yet living at the age of eighty-seven years.
  
    Dr. John C. Rutter attended the public schools until he was fourteen years of
  age. Three years later he went to Wilmington, Del., where he accepted a clerical
  position. At the age of twenty years he took up the study of medicine under the
  tutelage of Dr. Caleb Harlan of Wilmington and later attended the Homeopathic
  Medical College of Philadelphia, which is now known as the Hahnemann Medical
  College. In the month of May, following his graduation from the above-mentioned
  institution on March 3, 1855, he removed to Bloomsburg where he has since
  practiced medicine.
  
     Dr. Rutter and Jane Clayton, a daughter of John and Ann (Perkins) Clayton,
  were married August 26, 1848, and a record of their children is as follows:
  Lamartine, who married Lydia Rodemoyer, and who resides near Bellefonte, Pa.;
  Henry Harlan, proprietor of the Muncy Democrat of Luzerne County, was a member
  of the State Legislature from that county in 1894 and 1895, and chose Eva Cloud
  as his companion in life; Dr. Everett Webster, a practicing physician of
  Freeland, Luzerne County; Mary Ellen, widow of Dr. D. W. Conners of Wilkesbarre,
  Pa.; Adah Louisa, who married Newton W. Barton; Margaret, who is at home; Rachel
  M., deceased, who was the wife of Dr. C. B. Frantz; and John C., who married
  Hattie McKelvy, and is connected with the editorial department of The Democratic
  Sentinel of Bloomsburg. Politically our subject is a member of the Democratic
  party and has served for many years on the board of pension examiners. He
  attends the Episcopal Church, of which his family are members.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
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