BIO:  George Rutter, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Manchester Township, Pg 143

GEORGE RUTTER, son of John and Elizabeth (Brillinger) Rutter, was born in 
Manchester Township, June 16, 1827.  His boyhood days were spent on the farm and 
in attending the subscription schools.  At the age of twenty-four years he began 
farming his father’s farm, containing 167 acres, which he now owns.  It is in a 
high state of cultivation, and produces all the cereals in abundant crops.  Mr. 
Rutter devotes a great deals of attention to stock raising and fattening cattle 
for the markets.  During Gen. Early’s occupancy of York a squad of Confederates 
took his horses during harvest time; he was thus compelled to hitch a pair of 
green mules together with a horse to the reaper; they became unmanageable, and 
ran away; the reaper passed over Mr. Rutter and crippled him for life.  Mr. 
Rutter was married in York, November 30, 1851, to Anna Mary, daughter of Charles 
Diehl.  There were born to them eight children, three of whom are deceased.  The 
living are George D., Jacob Charles, Edwin S., Albert C., Leah E., the only 
daughter living is married to Philip Burg, of Hellam Township.  Mr. Rutter and 
his family are members of the Lutheran Church.  His father died March 13, 1868, 
aged seventy-two years four months and twenty-six days, and his mother died on 
the same day of the same month, 1879, aged seventy-nine years and eleven months.