Biography of Thomas Rudd, pages 1013 / 1014.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Thomas Rudd, dealer in fresh and cured meats, canned goods and oysters, 
Butler, Ind., was born in Bellevue, Ohio, April 30, 1854, a son of John W. 
and Mary (Wolcott) Rudd, natives of Devonshire, England, who emigrated to 
America in 1852 and settled in Ohio, where his father died in 1863.  He then 
lived with a family named Chamberlain till sixteen years of age, three years 
of the time in Monticello, Jones Co., Iowa. When sixteen years of age he 
began clerking for a man in a meat market, and in April 1880, came to Butler 
and established his present place of business.  He is a genial, courteous 
tradesman, and has built up a good trade.  He keeps constantly on hand all 
kinds of goods in his line, and this added to his reasonable prices insures 
his success.  Mr. Rudd was married Nov. 5, 1874, to Mary Link, of North 
Monroeville, Ohio. They have two children---Robert, deceased, and Frederick.  
He is a member of the I.O.O.F. and Royal Arcanum, Bellevue, Ohio.  He is a 
member of the Board of Town Trustees.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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