“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


D. RUTLEDGE,  Register of Deeds, Jefferson; came to Ixonia, Jefferson 
Co., in 1848; took up land from State Government and farmed it for 
some time, then engaged in a general merchandise trade till elected 
Register of Deeds in 1876, in which office he is now serving for the 
second term; he held the office of Town Superintendent of Schools about 
eight years, and was Town Clerk eight years.  He is a member of St. 
Bernard’s congregation of Watertown.  His father, Patrick, died in Ixonia 
in 1851, and his mother, Mary, died in 1875.  Mr. D. Rutledge had five 
children – Mary, born Feb. 22, 1869, died in March, 1871;  Catharine, 
born Sept. 10, 1871;  Thomas, Dec. 18, 1873;  Mary Jane, April 15, 
1876, and Anastatia, March 11, 1879.  Mr. R. married Anna Statia April 
18, 1868; she was born in New York July 4, 1847.


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