Samuel Shultz Rutter

Brief Life History of Samuel Shultz

When Samuel Shultz Rutter was born on 5 March 1852, in Leacock, Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jonathan Bashore Rutter, was 33 and his mother, Barbara Horst, was 30. He married Altha Eunice Chipman on 3 January 1883, in Jefferson, Greene, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Grant Township, Greene, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Greene, Iowa, United States in 1925. He died on 7 February 1929, in Jefferson, Greene, Iowa, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Jefferson, Greene, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Shultz Rutter
1852–1929
Altha Eunice Chipman
1862–1911
Marriage: 3 January 1883
Fred C. Rutter
1883–
Gilbert Earl Rutter
1885–1956
Bertha Lorena Rutter
1886–1979
Allan Ansel Rutter
1888–1961
Robert Lacey Rutter
1889–1946
Hoyt Frank Rutter
1896–1951
Florence A Rutter
1900–1981
Josephine Rutter
1903–1996

Sources (38)

  • S S Rutter, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Samuel Rutter - Published information: birth: 5 March 1852; Leacock, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
  • S. S. Rutter, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"

World Events (8)

1855

Historical Boundaries: 1855: Greene, Iowa, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Old French roteor, roteeur, routeeur ‘player on the rote’, a musical instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. The regular modern development of the name would have been to Roter (rhyming with boater), and to Router or Rowter (rhyming with doubter). These variants survive in small numbers, but the principal modern form is Rutter, found in fairly large numbers across England, especially in the northeast and in the West Midlands. The shortened vowel in Rutter may have been influenced by rotte, rutte, Middle English variants of Old French rote. Compare Root 2.

English: nickname from Middle English roter, rotour ‘robber, plunderer’, also ‘scoundrel, lecher’, a borrowing of Old French rotier, Anglo-Norman French routier ‘soldier of fortune; robber, highwayman, ruffian’, though this is a less likely source of the modern surname.

Dutch: nickname from Middle Dutch rut(t)er ‘freebooter, footpad’, cognate with 2 above.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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