WI BIO - Dodge Co - RUEDEBUSCH, Charles

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 652

Charles RUEDEBUSCH, merchant, Mayville [Williamstown Township, Dodge County, 
Wisconsin], was born 25 May 1832 in Oldenburg [Germany], was educated in his 
native country, and came to America in September 1847. He was clerk in a 
Charleston [Charleston County], South Carolina, grocery store over two years, 
and came to Milwaukee [Milwaukee County, Wisconsin] in 1850. After a 
residence of four months here, he returned to Germany and spent a year.

On his return Charles RUEDEBUSCH lived one year in Milwaukee. Then removing 
to Mayville, he began business with H. NABER on 01 June 1853. The firm did 
business until 1868. They owned a saw mill, shingle mill, and store in 
Shawano [Shawano County], Wisconsin, besides the Mayville store. [Shawano 
County was created from part of Oconto County in 1858.] Since 1868 Mr. 
RUEDEBUSCH has kept a general stock of goods in his present store. He also 
owns two farms of forty and eighty acres each, and is proprietor of the 
Wisconsin White Lime Works. His lime is considered in Chicago to be the best 
and strongest made in the State.

On 05 September 1854 Mr. [Charles] RUEDEBUSCH married Miss Margaret NABER. 
They [Charles and Margaret (NABER) RUEDEBUSCH] have six children: Ida, Amil, 
Emma, Bertha, Lima, and Charles. Mr. RUEDEBUSCH is a Republican, liberal in 
religion, and a member of several German societies in the village. [The 
village of Mayville on an 1878 map of Dodge County, Wisconsin, is located 
mostly in Section 23 of Williamstown Township, with small parts of the 
village extending into Sections 14 and 24.]

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