Rudloff Brothers

RUDLOFF

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner
Date: 7/25/2006 at 12:36:14

RUDLOFF BROTHERS

Rudloff Brothers is a well known firm, doing business in George, Lyon county, handling grain, live stock, coal, lumber, and all kinds of building material, and in the comparatively brief time is has been before the public it has won more than its full share of the general traffic. Before opening up at George, its members were at Lester, where they operated under the name of Rudloff and Meier, dealing in lumber, coal and other commodities suitable to the local market. In 1899 the brothers came to George, and purchased their present large business interests of F. J. Edmunds & Company. Their elevator, which was brought at about this time, is one of the largest in this part of the state, and has a capacity of more than twenty thousand bushels. It was erected in 1888.

Jacob Rudloff, the father of the energetic brothers at George, was a weaver in Thuringen, Germany, and removed to this country in 1868, landing in Baltimore on the 2d day of August of that year. For eight years he made his home in Cook county, Illinois, thence he spent the remaining years of his life, dying in 1902, at the age of seventy-eight years. His widow is still living, and has her home in Ida Grove. She is now in her seventy-eighth year.

Source: Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Lyon County, Iowa. Published under the Auspices of the Pioneer Association of Lyon County. Geo. Monlun, Pres.; Hon. E. C. Roach Sec’y; and Col. F. M. Thompson, Historian. Geo. A. Ogle & CO., Published, Engravers and Book Manufacturers. Chicago, 1904-1905

Transcribed by Roseanna Zehner, Darlene Jacoby and Diane Johnson