WI BIO - Dodge Co - RUEDEBUSCH, Henry

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 652

Henry RUEDEBUSCH, farmer, Sections 27 and 34 [Williamstown Township, Dodge 
County, Wisconsin, P. O. Mayville [Williamstown Township], was born in 1835 
in Prussia. He spent his early life and was educated in Prussia, and came to 
America in 1855. He worked for three years in the Cedarburg mill. [The only 
mill shown on an 1878 Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, map in Cedarburg Township is 
on the eastern edge of Section 35, bordering on the Township of Grafton. 
Ozaukee County was created 07 March 1853.] He settled in [the Township of] 
Williamstown [Dodge County] and in 1858 bought eighty acres of land.

In June 1860 he [Henry RUEDEBUSCH] married a cousin, Miss Eliza RUEDEBUSCH. 
They [Henry and Eliza (RUEDEBUSCH) RUEDEBUSCH] have nine children: Emma, 
Lydia, Herman, Anna, Charles, Eliza, Otto, Rhienhold, and a girl babe. Mr. 
RUEDEBUSCH is a Republican. He has four horses, twenty-one sheep, eighteen 
head of cattle, and fourteen hogs. He now has 157 and one-half acres, with a 
large stone house, good barns, etc., and has himself made all the 
improvements.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly