BIOGRAPHY: Louis H. 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, 
pages 470-471.
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  LOUIS H. RUBLE, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., is a descendant of Michael 
Ruble, one of the earliest setters of Fergusons valley, in Granville 
township, Mifflin county. Michael Ruble was an industrious and economical 
farmer, who by saving his earnings and investing them in land, buildings and 
other improvements became the owner of much valuable real estate. Part of 
the original tract is still in the possession of the family. The paternal 
grandparents of Mr. L. H. Ruble had the following children, all of whom grew 
to mature age: John; Henry; married Caroline Baird, and had sons and 
daughters; Margaret (Mrs. Peter Rush), had sons and daughters; Susan (Mrs. 
John Dunmore), had a large family of sons and five daughters; - (Mrs. Henry 
Schilling), removed either to Indiana or Jefferson county, Pa.; - (Mrs. 
Sechrist), removed to Western Pennsylvania, had a large family; Hannah (Mrs. 
Rothrock), also had many sons and daughters; and - (Mrs. Moser), removed to 
western Pennsylvania.
 The eldest son, John Ruble, after receiving a limited education in the 
subscription schools of the neighborhood, continued assisting his father on 
the homestead, to which he succeeded upon the death of the latter. He was a 
very successful farmer, being not only of steady and laborious habits, but 
honorable and intelligent, so that he enjoyed the respect of his neighbors, 
and through intercourse with those more highly favored with educational 
advantages than himself, made up for much of his own lack of training; John 
Ruble was married May 28, 1840, to Anna, daughter of John Lauber, a Dunkard 
preacher of Union county, Pa. The children of this marriage, who died in 
early life, are: Oliver, deceased in childhood; James, when about ten years 
of age; and Juniata, when about seven. The others are: Isaac, married Mary 
Kerlin, of Juniata county, Pa., they reside in Virginia, and have two 
children; Mary Jane (Mrs. Frank Roth), of Monticello, Ind.; Louis H.; Aaron, 
married Catharine Price, removed to Ordway, Col.; Susanna (Mrs. M. H. 
Carter), resides in Kansas; Adeline (Mrs. William J. Wagner), died in 
Kansas, where they resided; John W., married in Kansas and now resides in 
Colorado; and George F., married and resides in San Diego, Cal. Mr. John 
Ruble, father of the family, died March 4, 1880, aged about sixty-four 
years; his wife died September 7, 1893, at the age of seventy-four.
  Living on the old-homestead, Louis H. Ruble attended the public schools of 
his vicinity, but not very long. He was but a boy when the war of the 
Rebellion broke out, and he enlisted, at the age of sixteen, August 26, 
1861, in Company A, Forty-sixty Pennsylvania Volunteers (the "Logan 
Guards"), under Captain Matthews. He came home at the expiration of his 
three years of service, only to enlist again, with others of the "Guards," 
on January 31, 1865, and to go on rendering a boy's gallant and faithful 
service until the close of the war. He was mustered out July 16, 1865. 
Returning to his home, Mr. Ruble remained there until 1867, when be began 
farming on his own account, which he did with very gratifying success. In 
1883 he bought the farm formerly owned by his father, and cultivated it 
until his appointment by the directors of the poor to the stewardship of the 
Mifflin county almshouse, in January, 1887. He still holds that position, 
for which he appears well fitted by character and manners. He is a member of 
Colonel Hulings Post, No. 176, G. A. R., and of Juniata Lodge, No. 270, K. 
of P., both at Lewistown. He is of the Republican party.
  Louis H. Ruble was married, January 25, 1866, to Mary B., daughter of 
James and Rachel (Todd) Kreps. Their children are: Alice Virginia, born 
November 3, 1869, died January 3, 1877; Walter, born September 21, 1866, 
died March 26, 1877; Ann Adessa, born October 21, 1868, died May 9, 1883; 
Charles Howard, born March 24, 1874, died December 18, 1892; Harry Franklin, 
married Bertha Smith, of South Dakota, they reside in Wyoming; William L.; 
Edward Garfield; Albert Roswell; and Irna Lorena. The family attend the 
Methodist Episcopal Church.
  Mr. and Mrs. James Kreps, the parents of Mrs. Ruble, had the following 
children, beside three who died very young: Lawrence, married Julia Baker; 
William married Hannah Cupples; Wilhelmina (Mrs. B. F. White); David, 
married Jennie Adams; Laura (Mrs. William Bigerman); Sarah Catherine (Mrs. 
Gabriel Allen); and Mary B. (Mrs. Ruble). Mr. Kreps, who was a native of 
Centre county, Pa., came to Mifflin county in his boyhood, and passed his 
life in farming. He was of German and Irish ancestry; his father, James 
Kreps, who was descended from a German family, married Margaret Butler, 
whose parents came from Ireland. Mrs. Ruble's father died at about sixty-
eight years of age, and her mother on August 24, 1893, aged seventy-eight 
years.