Ruluff Root

ROOT, KENT, RICHARDSON, DAY, BUDLONG, SHUMWAY, SLIMMER, LADD

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/21/2004 at 22:34:17

Ruluff Root is a native of Herkimer county, New York, being born at West Schuyler on the 10th day of September, 1827. His father, Ruluff Root, was a native, of Kenyon Connecticut, and his mother, Fannie (Kent) Root, of Rhode Island. They were married in Herkimer county, New York, and reared a family of seven children, four of whom are now living – Sallie, now Mrs. Horace Richardson, of Oneida county, New York; Mary Ann now Mrs. E. M. Day, of West Schuyler, New York; George, or Fairport, New York, and Ruluff – the subject of this sketch – who was bred to farm life.
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In 1859 he came to Iowa and entered one thousand acres of the best land situated in Dayton township, Butler county, then returned to his native state. In 1864 Mr. Root brought his family to Butler county, living on his farm until 1868. The farm where he now lives adjoins the town plat of Clarksville and contains 247 acres. Mr. Root still owns all the land he entered in 1854, and his is the finest stock farm in the county. His real estate amounts to thirteen hundred and forty-seven acres.
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In 1855 Mr. Root was married to Miss Rula Budlong, a native of Freeport, Monroe county, New York. Her father Milton Budlong, was also born in the Empire State, and shipped the first carload of cattle over the N.Y.C. & H.R. Railroad. Her mother, Clarissa (Shumway) Budlong, was a native of Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Root have four children – Milton R.; Clara F., now Mrs. Lewis Slimmer; Lida E., now Mrs. William Ladd, and Rula M. Mr. Root is a republican, but takes no more interest in politics than to perform his duty as a citizen.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 515