Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Tschudi, Peter Rudolph April 1843 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

PETER RUDOLPH TSCHUDI, Sr. Among the men who are conducting the farming interests of
Lincoln county are many old soldiers, and and our subject is one of the brave men
who volunteered during the late war to help defend the country, and served long and
honorably in defense of the stars and stripes. He is a native of picturesque
Switzerland, and was born in April, 1843. He grew to maturity in his native land,
where, also, he received his education, and in 1861 emigrated to America. Upon
landing, he came direct to Green county, Wis., but after six months’ residence
there, the patriotic spirit which characterizes his countrymen asserted itself, when
the rebellion broke out, and, although an alien, he was one of the first to offer
his services as a soldier. He was enrolled in September, 1861, in company K, Ninth
Wisconsin regiment, infantry, and was mustered into the service of the United States
at Milwaukee, Wis. The regiment was first ordered to Leavenworth, Kans., thence to
Fort Scott and the Indian territory, and later to northwestern Arkansas and
southwestern Missouri. During this time our subject participated with his regiment
in the battles of Newtonia, Prairie Grove and Kane Hill, and after two months spent
in St. Louis, went with his company to Little Rock, where they joined Gen. Steele’s
army. The following spring they took part in the Red river campaign, under the
command of Gen. Banks, but got only as far as Compton, when they returned to the
rendezvous at Little Rock, participating in a few engagements with the rebel forces
under Price, going, and the Battle of Saline river when returning to Little Rock.
Our subject remained with his regiment in the latter place until the expiration of
his term of service, taking part in several minor expeditions, and was mustered out
and discharged at Little Rock the latter part of 1864, after three years of faithful
duty in the service of his adopted country. Mr. Tschudi was never wounded during his
entire term of enlistment; but when on his way home, on board a boat on the
Mississippi, he fell down the hatchway. From the effects of this accident he has
never fully recovered, which, coupled with the inroads made on his health by the
hardships and privations he endured as a soldier, incapacitated him for hard
physical labor.

After the cessation of hostilities Mr. Tschudi returned to his home in the Badger
state, and in the spring of 1865, removed to and settled on a farm in Goodhue
county, Minn. After twelve years spent in farming pursuits there he came to Dakota
territory, settling on his present farm in section 18, of Pleasant township, in
1877. For a time he lived in a dug out and applied himself industriously to
improving his farm, and his estate, which now comprises 250 acres, is all under
cultivation, and nearly all of this he has done himself, besides building all the
present structures. He is exclusively a farmer, and his reputation as a skillful and
practical agriculturist is second to none.

In 1865 Mr. Tschudi was united in marriage in Dodge county, Minn., to Miss Annie
Legler, a native of Green county, Wis., and a daughter of Casper Legler, deceased,
who was one of the early settlers of that county. Mrs. Tschudi was born in 1847, and
to her and Mr. Tschudi have come ten children, nine of whom are living, viz.: Fred,
John Casper, Rosie, deceased; Peter Rudolph, Jr.; Agatha, the wife of Melchior
Schieser, of this township, and the mother of one son, Jacob; Edward, Samuel Emil,
Rosie, and Otto. The family are members in good standing of the Calvinist church,
and the children have all been given good school educations.

Mr. Tschudi, politically, is a Republican, and has taken an active part in all local
matters of interest. Although he has frequently been importuned to accept office by
his fellow-townsmen, he has always declined the nomination, preferring to allow
others who, though probably no better fitted for civic life than he, are more
anxious to serve.


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