BIO: ALONZO H. RUTH, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 416-417
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    ALONZO H. RUTH, a prosperous farmer, stockraiser and dairyman of
  Shippensburg, Pa., was born in Hopewell township, Cumberland county, July 20,
  1855, a son of William and Elizabeth (Conner) Ruth. John Ruth, his
  grandfather, was born in Lancaster county, and was a miller by trade. He
  married a Miss Musser, and reared a large family. On the maternal side of the
  house the grandfather was George Conner, a farmer, who married Mary Baer.
    
    William Ruth, father of Alonzo H., was born in Lancaster county, and was a
  miller, while his wife was born in Cumberland county, in 1836, and died in
  1898; she is buried in the Reformed Church graveyard in Hopewell township,
  where the father is also interred. The children of William Ruth and his wife
  were as follows: Isaiah J. married A. S. McCoy and lives at Mechanicsburg;
  Mary R. is the wife of Benjamin Zeigler and resides in Cumberland county;
  Emma C. married William Brubaker; Alonzo H. is mentioned below; Anna J.
  married William Davidson, of Cumberland
    
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  county; Ellen J. is deceased; John W. resides in Shippensburg; William is
  deceased; Minnie A. and Elizabeth U. complete the family.
    
    Alonzo H. spent his boyhood and early school days in Mifflin township. He
  remained upon the farm until he was twenty-six years of age, having married,
  however, when twenty-four, Miss Mary G. Meyers, a daughter of Samuel and
  Sarah (Reside) Meyers. Sometime after his marriage Mr. Ruth settled in
  Hopewell township, Cumberland county, where he engaged in general farming,
  but in 1890 he moved and located in Shippensburg township, locating on the
  Abram Hostetter farm, which he is still occupying, renting the property. He
  is a hard-working, industrious and thrifty farmer, and thoroughly understands
  all his work. The farm contains eighty acres, and is located in the vicinity
  of Shippensburg.
    
    Mr. and Mrs. Ruth are the parents of two children: George R. graduated in
  his seventeenth year, and is now in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad
  Company; William Mark, an intelligent young man, is a student in the
  Cumberland Valley Normal School. Mr. Ruth is a Democrat, and takes an active
  interest in local politics. Both he and his wife are consistent members of
  the Reformed Church, of which he is trustee. Fraternally, he is a member of
  the Royal Arcanum, and he is a man widely known and highly respected.