BIO: Daniel Rudy, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER LVIII.

    SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH OF MOUNT HOLLY SPRINGS.

559  SOUTH MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP.

  DANIEL RUDY, farmer and proprietor of the Sunnyside Dairy, P. O. 
Carlisle, was born in Dauphin County, Penn., December 8, 1837, son of 
Jonas and Frances (Hoffman) Rudy, natives of Pennsylvania and of German 
origin, and who reared a family of nine children, of whom Daniel is the 
third born.  Four of the sons - Joseph, Levi, Jonas and 

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Frederick - served in the late war of the Rebellion, and all returned 
home but Joseph, who died at Andersonville, after an incarceration of 
one year and five days, in rebel prisons.  Our subject was reared on 
his father's farm and, with his parents, moved to South Middleton 
Township in 1838.  He acquired a common school education in his native 
county, and at the age of twenty-two, attended the State Normal School.  
He then commenced to teach, with the intention of following the 
profession, but, at the expiration of four years, his father died (in 
1861), and, being appointed administrator to the estate, he came home 
and took charge of the farm.  Mr. Rudy is owner of 103 acres of well 
improved land, and has operated the Sunnyside Dairy since 1878, keeping 
from fifteen to twenty cows.  In 1871 he married Elizabeth Ernest, of 
German descent, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Ann (Batterman) Ernest, and 
their living children are William Jonas, Jacob E. and Sallie A.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Rudy are members of the Reformed Church.  He has held most of 
the township offices.