BIOGRAPHY: George S. RUBLE, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 624.

  GEORGE S. RUBLE, deceased, was born in the old Ruble homestead in Granville 
township, August 20, 1851.  His father, Michael Ruble, was born in Ferguson 
valley, and received a common school education.  At the age of twenty-one years 
he began farming on his own account;  he occupied and cultivated the old Keever 
farm in Granville township.  He was married to Serena Meyers, daughter of Peter 
and Sarah (Graff) Meyers.  Their children are:  Elise Jane (Mrs. John Stump);  
Lawrence;  Flora Grace;  George S.;  Sarah, deceased;  and Cora Emma.  Mr. Ruble 
died May 14, 1890.
  George S. Ruble was born and reared on the farm, and had the educational 
advantages usually falling to the lot of the farmer boy.  He inherited the 
excellent characteristics of his revered father, and came to be recognized as a 
man of great intelligence, sound and practical judgment and advanced ideas.  His 
honor and integrity shone out in all his business methods and his social nature 
was expressed and exemplified in his uniform prudence and generous hospitality.  
In his religious views he was in accord with the German Baptists, and in their 
organization he was a consistent member.  His untimely death occurred at 
Mattawana and was the result of an accident at a railway crossing.
  Samuel Meyers, grandfather of Mrs. Michael Ruble, settled on the Meyers 
homestead in Oliver township, soon after his marriage to Elizabeth 
Shellenberger, where they reared a family of six sons and four daughters.  His 
son, Peter Meyers, was reared on the homestead and received a district school 
education.  He remained with his parents until he was twenty-two years of age, 
and then married Sarah Graff, daughter of Matthias Graff, a farmer of Lancaster 
county, Pa.  His first farming for himself was done in Huntingdon county, and at 
the end of five years there he returned to the old homestead in Oliver township.  
A part of this place he occupied, building upon it a dwelling house and barn;  
he brought the farm to a good state of cultivation; it is now occupied by his 
daughter, Mrs. Ruble.  Mrs. Meyers was not only a good farmer, but was an able 
and devoted minister of the German Baptist church, excelled by few local 
preachers in his connection.  His wife having died, he married Magdalene France, 
of  Illinois; since 1886 they have resided at Los Angeles, Cal.