WI BIO - Trempealeau Co - RUDOLPH, Henry

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1050

Henry RUDOLPH, farmer and proprietor of the Trempealeau quarries, P. O. 
Trempealeau [Trempealeau County, Wisconsin], was born 20 November 1818 in 
Hanover, Germany, there learned the trade of marble cutting, and was engaged 
at work on the cathedral at Cologne. He came to the United States in June 
1849, and worked at his trade on several of the largest buildings in this 
country. In 1856 he came to Trempealeau County, and took up a farm on the 
Black River, afterward going back to Ohio. In 1861 he returned to this place 
[Trempeauleau] and has made his home ever since in the village of 
Trempealeau, opening his quarries in 1863. He has furnished and cut building 
stone for Sparta, La Crosse, Winona and St. Paul.

In 1850 Mr. [Henry] RUDOLPH was married to Miss Anna DEUBNER, of Dayton 
[Montgomery County], Ohio, who was born in Germany. They [Henry and Anna 
(DEUBNER) RUDOLPH] now have a family of five children: (1) Katie, a teacher 
in Duluth [St. Louis County, Minnesota]; (2) Lilly, now Mrs. W. J. SHOWERS 
of Trempealeau [Trempealeau County, Wisconsin]; (3) Emma, also a school 
teacher at Duluth, Minnesota; (4) Annie; and (5) Adolphus.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly