BIOGRAPHIES:  Elmer P. RUDY, Dallas, Barron County, WI

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Elmer P. Rudy, of the firm of Goss & Rudy, blacksmiths, at Dallas was born at
Stevens Point, Wis., April 12, 1890, son of John and Anna (Hermundson) Rudy.
The father was born in Indiana and spent many years farming in Buffalo County,
Wis., with a short interval at Stevens Point. In 1920 he sold out and moved to
Eau Claire, Wis., where he now lives. The children of John Rudy, by his first
wife, were: Mary, George, John, Willie (deceased), Elmer P. and Ella (twins),
of whom Ella is deceased, Clarence and Clara (twins), of whom Clara is
deceased, and Bennie. John Rudy's children by his second wife were: Theodore,
Mabel, Myrtle, Lillie (deceased), Norman, Alver, James, Donald (deceased) and
Henry. Elmer P. Rudy lost his mother when he was nine years old. He received
his education in his native county and farmed until 1911, when he went to
Independence, Wis., where he learned the blacksmith trade. In 1913 he rented a
shop at Eleva, Wis., and a year later came to Dallas in the employ of August
Brotin. In 1915 he went to Barron and worked for 0. G. Klein for six months
and then came back to Dallas and with Stein Ulberg bought out his former
employer. This partnership continued until Aug. 23, 1920, when Mr Ulberg was
bought out by Ralph W. Goss. The young men do general horseshoeing and repair
work and have built up a good trade. Fraternally, Mr. Rudy is a member of the
Beavers. Mr. Rudy was married June 21, 1911, to Sena Severson, daughter of
Andrew Severson, who came to America from Norway in the early eighties and
located in Trempealeau County, Wis. In the Severson family there were twelve
children, of whom there are six living: Steen, Bessie, Gilbert and Andrew
(twins), Otto and Sena. Mr. and Mrs. Rudy are the parents of four children:
Arvilla, born May 11, 1912; Everett, born Nov. 13, 1914; Ancel, born March
26, 1917; and Curtis, born Sept. 26, 1920.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pp. 862.