California Biographies, San Joaquin Valley

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


 WILLIAM RUDY. Five miles southeast of Fresno is located the farm which belongs to William 
Rudy, a well known and successful agriculturist of this county. Of the eighty acres in his ranch, 
fifty are devoted to the culture of grapes, both raisin and wine grapes, while the remainder is 
given over to an orchard and general farming. A native of Ohio, Mr. Rudy was born in 
Muskingum county, December 25, 1840. He was the son of Rudolph Rudy, who was born in 
Germany and reared in Pennsylvania, afterward removing to Muskingum county, Ohio, where 
his death occurred. He was a farmer by occupation throughout his entire life. His wife was 
formerly Mary Dean, also a native of Pennsylvania. 

Until attaining the age of nineteen years William Rudy remained upon the paternal farm, after 
which he went to Illinois and located in Sangamon county, where he made his home for the 
period of twelve years. He then removed to Nemaha county, Kans., where he engaged in 
farming and stock-raising until 1880. Locating at that date in Missouri, he made that state his 
home until 1884, when he came to California. Upon his first trip to the state he spent but a 
short time, when he returned to his old home in Illinois, three years later again coming to the 
west. Settling in Fresno county, he has since made this locality his home, giving his attention to 
his ranch of eighty acre?. In Illinois he was united in marriage with Susan M. Fairbanks, a native 
of Ohio, and of this union were born the following children : William F., J. J., Henry Y., and Alice, 
now Mrs. Rhinehart. In his political preferment Mr. Rudy is a stanch adherent of the principles 
advocated in the platform of the Republican party, his first vote having been cast for Abraham 
Lincoln.