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L. L. Rohner was associated with his father, Jacob B., in the automobile business in Columbus from 1924 to 1931. He has been associated with the United Finance Company since 1932. He also has taken an active part in a great many Columbus civic enterprises, including the Eighty-fifth Anniversary Committee, of which he was chairman in 1940; the fund raising committee for our local iron lung; the fund raising committee for the Columbus Fire Department Emergency Unit; and the Columbus Community Chest, of which he is an organizer and past treasurer. He is a past president of the junior Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He has been active in both the local and the regional activities of the B.P.O.E. He is a past Exalted Ruler and a past secretary of the local Elks Lodge, and has held the office of District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler of B.P.O.E. for Nebraska East. The Rohners are members of the Methodist Church of Columbus.
Adam Rollmann was born in the German Province of Bavaria, in 1837, and remained there until his thirty-sixth year, when he and his brothers, George, Peter and John, immigrated to the United States with their aged father, Anthony A. Rollmann.
Upon their arrival in this country, in 1873, they came west to Nebraska, and settled in Humphrey Township, Platte County. Adam Rollmann homesteaded on the Southeast Quarter of Section 4, Township 21, Range 1 West. Two of his brothers homesteaded in the same section, and the other in Madison County.
In the late 1870's, Adam Rollmann married Theresa Haschke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Haschke. Theresa Haschke Rollmann was born in Moravia, an Austrian province, August 29, 1850, and immigrated to the United States with her father in 1876. They homesteaded east of Humphrey, in Township 28, Range 1 West. John Haschke died in Humphrey on December 17, 1922, at the age of ninety-nine.
After their marriage, Adam and Theresa Haschke Rollmann made their home on his homestead in Humphrey Township until 1882, when Adam Rollmann moved his family to Bellwood, Nebraska, where he and his brother, George, operated a general store.
George Rollmann married Eva Blahak, of Luxenburg, Butler County, Nebraska, and later moved to Olympia, Washington. Peter Rollmann moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and John Rollmann moved to Portland, Oregon.
The Adam Rollmanns continued their residence in Bellwood until the fall of 1885, when Mr. Rollmann retired from the store. Mr. and Mrs. Rollmann and their three children, Albert, Joseph, and Catherine, returned to the Rollmann homestead in Humphrey Township, where Adam Rollmann died, March 27, 1886. Mrs. Rollmann then moved into Humphrey, where the three children attended St. Francis School. Albert A. Rollmann lives in Humphrey. Joseph and Catherine, now Mrs. Florian Feik, live in Las Animas, Colorado.
Albert A. Rollmann, son of Adam and Theresa Haschke Rollmann, was born in a sod-house, on Section 4, Humphrey Township, on August 30, 1880. He attended St. Francis School in Humphrey, and in 1898, he returned to his father's homestead in Humphrey Township, where he built a modern farm home.
On November 7, 1900, Albert A. Rollmann married Mary Catherine Eckholt, daughter of Bernard and Sophia Rath Eckholt, at St. Francis Church, in Humphrey. Her father, a native of Oldenburg, Germany, immigrated to this country in 1871. He first lived in Oconee, Illinois, and there married Sophia Rath, who was born at Fondulac, Wisconsin. After their marriage, Bernard and Sophia Rath Eckholt lived at Raleigh, Iowa, for five years, and then moved to Independence, Iowa, where they lived another five years. On February 14, 1885, they moved to Humphrey, Nebraska, where they lived on a farm one and a half miles northwest of Humphrey. Bernard Eckholt died there on May 29, 1911, and Sophia Eckholt died in Humphrey on April 2, 1933.
Albert and Mary Catherine Eckholt Rollmann have seven children: Sophia; The Reverend Paschal Rollmann, O.F.M.; Josephine, now Mrs. Michael Knust; Rose, Mrs. Leonard Wemhoff; Bertha, Mrs. Aloys German; John, who resides on the home place, married to Elyn Foley, a former Monroe, Nebraska girl; and the Reverend Othmar Rollmann, O.F.M., who, since 1944, has been a missionary in the Amazon Valley of Brazil, ministering to the people along the Tapajos River. The Reverend Paschal Rollman served as pastor of St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Church, in Grand Prairie Township.
The original name of Rollmann is spelled the German way, with two "n's." Albert A. Rollmann spells it that way, but all of his children spell it with one "n."
Albert A. Rollmann was a progressive farmer, and active in various farm organizations. He served as secretary of the local Farmer's Union for over twenty years, and was a director on the board of the Farmers' Elevator and Oil Company, at Humphrey. He is now a director on the board of the Madison Cooperative Creamery.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rollmann are members of St. Francis Church in Humphrey. Mr. Rollmann is a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters and the Knights of Columbus, and Mrs. Rollmann is a member of the Christian Mother's Society.
In December, 1944, Mr. and Mrs. Rollmann moved into their new home in Humphrey, where they continue to center their interest in their children and grandchildren.
The Reverend Paschal Rollman, O.F.M., pastor of St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Church in Grand Prairie Township, and later of Humphrey, was born on January 15, 1905, at Humphrey, Nebraska. He is the son of Albert A. and Mary Eckholt Rollmann, both natives of Platte County.
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Reverend Father Paschal Rollman has two brothers and four sisters. One brother, Reverend Othmar Rollman, is also a Franciscan priest, and is located at Estado do Para, Brazil, where he is a missionary.
Father Rollman received his early education at St. Francis School, in Humphrey, Nebraska, after which he enrolled at St. Joseph's College in Teutopolis, Illinois, where he studied for six years. He then entered St. Joseph Seminary, at Teutopolis, to study for the priesthood. He was ordained at St. Francis Church on June 24, 1931, in Teutopolis, Illinois, and said his first mass at St. Francis Church in Humphrey, Nebraska, on June 28, 1931.
After his ordination, Reverend Rollman returned to the St. Joseph Seminary at Teutopolis, for his final year of study. Since his graduation, in 1932, he has served assistant pastorates at St. John Church, Joliet, Illinois, and St. Agnes Church at Ashland, Wisconsin.
In 1940 Reverend Paschal Rollman became the pastor of St. Mary of the Angels Church, in Grand Prairie Township, where he served for over eight years.
Ernst Rosche, son of Johann Heinrich and Katharina Inselman Rosche, was born February 4, 1892, in Platte County, and is occupied in farming as were his father and grandfather first in Germany and later in Platte County. His father, born August 30, 1856, in Oldenburg, Germany, immigrated to Platte County in 1882, arriving here June 14. His mother was born August 28, 1870, at Hutzel, Hanover, Germany, and died here December 14, 1932.
Ernst Rosche has two sisters, Louise Wilhelmina, who married Fred Siefken, and Esther, who married Otto Muth. Their husbands are both engaged in farming.
Mr. Rosche attended District 48 Rural School, and in addition to his farming activities, he enjoys hunting and fishing. On April 11, 1917, he was married to Margaretha Meyer, daughter of Gottfried and Wilhelmine Boettcher Meyer, both natives of Germany.
Ernst and Louise Rosche have three children: Olga Louise, born September 3, 1918; Hugo Ernst, born July 19, 1920; and Harry Edward, born March 1, 1923. They all attended school in District 48 and the Christ Lutheran Parochial School. Olga is married to Henry Kuhlman. Hugo died February 10, 1921.
The Ernst Rosche family belongs to the Christ Lutheran Church.
Reverend Willis Metcalfe Rosenthal, former Rector of the Grace Episcopal Church in Columbus, was born January 22, 1914, in Huntington, Long Island, New York, the son of Frederick Charles and Louise Bates Rosenthal.
Frederick Rosenthal was born at Melville, Long Island, New York, March 29, 1881, and died on December 10, 1945, at Columbus, Nebraska. Mrs. Rosenthal was born April 3, 1885, in Scarsdale, New York. Reverend Rosenthal has one brother. As a boy and young man, Willis Metcalfe Rosenthal lived in Long Island, Florida, Oklahoma and Montana.
After finishing grammar and preparatory school, he entered the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee. He later attended the University of Oklahoma, where he received his degree. He studied theology at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, in Evanston, Illinois, and was ordained a clergyman of the Episcopal Church upon the completion of his work there. Besides his work as Rector of the Episcopal Church, Reverend Willis M. Rosenthal taught in the University and in Junior College.
A young man of high scholastic achievement throughout his university years, he is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Fraternity.
On February 17, 1944, Reverend Willis Rosenthal and Patricia Gibbons, daughter of Walter S. and Ruby Arndt Gibbons, were married at Eureka, Montana. Mr. Gibbons is in the automobile business in Eureka. Patricia Gibbons Rosenthal has three brothers. Reverend and Mrs. Willis Rosenthal have one daughter, Winnifred Louise, born in June of 1947, in Columbus, Nebraska.
Reverend and Mrs. Rosenthal came to Columbus on September 22, 1944, from Coral Gables, Florida, and went to Logan, Utah, October 1, 1947, where Father Rosenthal became the Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church.
During his three years in Columbus, Reverend Rosenthal contributed much to the life of the community. Locally, he belonged to the Y.M.C.A. and the Platte County Ministerial Association.
M. M. Rothleitner, son of Joseph and Johanna Schmidt Rothleitner, was born in Bergstadt, Austria, September 21, 1868. His father came to America in 1872, and the family followed in 1875, when Max was seven years old.
His mother died in Castle Garden, New York, when their steamship landed there, leaving five children, three sons and two daughters in New York alone. The eldest son, Frank, was fifteen years old. The father was in Nebraska at the time. Luckily, the children fell into the kindly hands of a German Lutheran Minister of New York, who happened along, saw to the interment of the mother, and took charge of the children until he sent them on to their father in Platte County, Nebraska.
The father later married Adele Wanke, and they had one son, Anton Joseph, now deceased.
Max Rothleitner attended school in Platte County and then went to McMinnville, Oregon, where he spent three years at the Minnville College, a Baptist school. He worked his way through school, as he wished to study law. In 1887 he returned to Platte County, where he taught in a county school. In the spring of 1888 he entered the Fremont Normal, and in the fall of that year, was engaged to teach at the Loseke School in Platte County, for ten months. He later taught in Creston, Nebraska, for one year.
In 1890 he received the Democratic nomination for county school superintendent and was defeated. He then became principal of the Lindsay High School, where
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he continued from 1891 to 1892, and then was principal of the Bismark School for one year.
He enrolled at the Dixon College, in Dixon, Illinois, in 1892, where he was graduated in 1893. He was nominated again for county superintendent, was elected in 1893, and served until 1899.
M. M. Rothleitner was principal of the First Ward School and then transferred as principal to the Second Ward Williams School, which was the second high school. He remained there until 1904 or 1905.
From his educational activities, he changed to mercantile pursuits and purchased a hardware store in Columbus, at 2422 Eleventh Street, now occupied by the Miessler Drug Company.
On January 10, 1893, in Columbus, M. M. Rothleitner married Alice Leota Swartzley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Swartzley. They had two sons, Milton Monroe and Homer Louis.
In 1907 M. M. Rothleitner was City Councilman from the Third Ward and served one term. In 1913 he was elected Mayor of Columbus and was reelected a year later. In that era, the establishment of sidewalks, the first paved streets, a new sewer system, the building of the Carnegie Library, and other public utilities and enterprises took place during his term of office. He was a progressive mayor and was possessed of sound judgment and an understanding of all phases of any situation.
J. G. Routson was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1844. He lived there until 1862, when he enlisted in Company C, 104th Ohio Volunteers, serving nearly three years. After a few months in the service, he was taken ill at Richmond, Kentucky, and was sent to Cleveland, Ohio, where he was assigned for a short time. He was then sent to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he remained during the rest of his term in service acting as Company Quartermaster and Regimental Clerk.
While at Indianapolis, he studied privately, preparing himself for civil engineering. At the end of the war, he was discharged there, and returned to his home in Ohio for a short time. He then started West, getting as far as Morris, Illinois, in Grundy County, where he lived until February, 1866. He then resumed his journey westward, arriving in Columbus that year.
Upon his arrival in Columbus, he was employed as an assistant to both I. N: Taylor and J. E. North, land surveyors. He was elected County Surveyor of Platte County, the following year, and held that office four successive terms. In 1875 the Tiffany, Routson and Willard Stock Firm was formed and J. G. Routson then devoted his attention to dealing in stock. In 1880-1882 his firm handled an average of one hundred fifty head of horses imported from other states, per year. They dealt exclusively in farm horses. In 1882 Mr. Routson bought a cattle ranch.
He was married at Columbus in March, 1873, to Carrie Robinson, a native of Northern Illinois. They had two children, Ella and Eddie.
Mr. Routson was prominent in civic affairs in Columbus through the 1870's. In the early days he was a director of the Columbus Driving Park and Fair Association.
Doctor Gordon Henry Rucklos, son of August Julius and Ludella Marie Holle Rucklos, was born on November 11, 1911, at Deshler, Nebraska. His father was born September 17, 1881, at Friedensau, Nebraska, where he operated a grocery store for many years. He died in November, 1949. His grandfather, Henry Julius Rucklos, was born in Germany in 1838, homesteaded in Thayer County, Nebraska, as a young man, and died there in 1914. Doctor Rucklos' mother was born on January 14, 1890, at Decatur, Indiana. He has two brothers and one sister: Morris and Ralph, of Deshler; and Lucille, Mrs. James F. Meyer, of Paullina, Iowa.
Gordon Henry attended the Lutheran Parochial Grade School in Deshler and was graduated from the Deshler High School. As a boy, his favorite pastime was working with his uncles on their farms.
Doctor Rucklos was graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry in 1934. He was affiliated there with the Delta Sigma Delta Dental Fraternity.
On January 25, 1936, he was married to Olga Marie Hopfer, the daughter of Doctor William Gustav and Saphia Louise Lohmeyer Hopfer. Doctor Hopfer was born at Old Appelton, Missouri, on June 6, 1876, practiced dentistry at Minden and Deshler, Nebraska, for forty-five years, and died at Deshler on January 21, 1947. Mrs. Hopfer was born at Joliet, Illinois, on July 31, 1880. Olga Hopfer Rucklos was graduated from the University of Nebraska where she received a degree in nursing. She took her training at the University Hospital in Omaha. She has two sisters and one brother: Sara, Mrs. Forrest E. Bell, of Hastings; Esther, Mrs. Fred H. Schwerin, of Deshler; and Doctor Lorenz G. Hopfer, a commander in the Dental Corps of the United States Navy.
Doctor Rucklos established a dental practice in Columbus in August, 1935, and practiced dentistry there until July, 1942, when he entered the military service. During World War II, Doctor Rucklos served as a Major with the United States Army Air Corps. After his discharge from the Army in March, 1946, Doctor and Mrs. Rucklos moved to San Marino, Los Angeles County, California.
In San Marino Doctor Rucklos opened dental offices at 2304 Huntington Drive.
In Columbus, Doctor Rucklos was a member of the Rotarians and the Wayside Country Club. Doctor and Mrs. Rucklos were members of the Immanuel Lutheran Church. Politically, Doctor Rucklos is affiliated with the Republican Party.
Elsie R. Ruda, County Assistance Director for Platte County, the daughter of Robert and Antonia Bachman Ruda, was born at Bristow, Nebraska. Her father, a native of Bohemia, was born December 24, 1866, and died
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at Bristow on June 22, 1922. He spent his active years as a farmer. Her mother was born at Vienna, Austria-Hungary, April 28, 1875, and died in Bristow, February 21, 1936. Miss Ruda has six brothers and three sisters, none of whom live in Platte County.
Miss Ruda received her early education in schools near her home. She was graduated from the Butte, Nebraska High School, and the Norfolk Business College, at Norfolk, Nebraska. In 1928, she was employed by Carl H. Peterson, and from 1929-1933, she was a stenographer with the law firm of Wills and Wills, at Butte, Nebraska. From 1933-1936, she served as Boyd County Relief Director for the Nebraska Emergency Relief Administration, and since 1936, has been Assistance Director in Platte County.
She is a member of the Wayside County Club, the Business and Professional Women's Club, the Nebraska Welfare Association, and the County Directors' Welfare Association. Politically, she supports the Democratic Party. Her religious beliefs are those of the Protestant faith.
Otto Rudat, son of Julius and Minnie Jackstadt Rudat, Platte County pioneers, was born in Butler Township on January 17, 1886. His father was born September 21, 1851, at Burgsdorf, Koenigsborg, Germany. He came to the United States with his parents in 1875, and the family located in Omaha, where he was employed as a painter for three years. In 1878 he came to Platte County and located on a farm southwest of Columbus. On May 29, 1882, he married Minnie Jackstadt, of Omaha. They had been friends in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rudat retired from the farm November 12, 1913, and moved to Columbus. Mr. Rudat died December 8, 1930, and Mrs. Rudat died June 9, 1934.
Otto Rudat has two brothers and one sister. Frank lives in California; H. J. lives in Columbus; and Louise is the widow of Jacob Louis.
Otto Rudat attended school in District 5. Although by occupation a farmer, he has always taken a keen interest in county and civic affairs, and an active part in sports. He was twice married.
On January 27, 1915, he married Anna Zybach, daughter of Henry and Anna Zybach, natives of Switzerland. Mr. and Mrs. Rudat had one daughter, Leona, now married to Richard Frees, and living on the West Coast. Anna Zybach Rudat died December 20, 1917.
On April 1, 1918, in Omaha, Otto Rudat married Anna Weiss, daughter of William and Anna Josephine Weiss, natives of Koenigsborg, Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Weiss died during World War II in Germany. Two brothers, Fred and William, Jr., and a sister, Mrs. Fred Bodlin, still live in Germany. Anna also has three sisters who came to the United States: Mrs. William Nyffeler of Columbus, Mrs. Bertha Schipperit of Brewster, Nebraska, and Mrs. Fritz Hoffman of New York.
Otto and Anna Weiss Rudat were the parents of three sons. Fred, born July 11, 1920, attended school in District 5 and Kramer High School. He was inducted into the United States Army on December 23, 1940, and in June, 1943, commissioned as second lieutenant in the Air Corps, as a pilot. He served as a pilot-instructor of B-17's and B-29's at Hobbs and Roswell, New Mexico. He was promoted to first lieutenant in January, 1945, and discharged in November of that year. Fred Rudat is married to Margaret Cyphers, daughter of Doctor and Mrs. Cyphers, of Duncan. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rudat have one daughter, Cheryl Ann, and one son, Fred, Jr. Fred Rudat is now farming.
Robert L. Rudat, born April 6, 1922, attended the District 5 School and also Kramer High School. He was inducted into the United States Army, December 23, 1940, and commissioned as second lieutenant in January, 1943, at Aberdeen, Maryland. He served overseas at Guadalcanal, where he was promoted to first lieutenant. He returned to the States in December, 1945, and was discharged in March, 1946. In June, 1946, he was recalled to active duty at Fort Ord, California. He is married to Clara Shanahan.
Carroll Rudat, born December 18, 1923, attended the District 5 grade school and Kramer High School. He is married to Vallie Selene and is farming. He is interested in all sports, particularly football, baseball and hunting.
Anna Weiss Rudat died on February 29, 1936.
Otto Rudat has been a county supervisor for sixteen years and treasurer for School District 5 for twenty-one years. He is a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbus. Politically he is affiliated with the Democratic Party. He also holds membership in the Eagles Lodge, the Sons of Herman, and the War Dads.
Herman Julius Rudat, Platte County supervisor for District 6, belongs to the third generation of Rudats to live in Platte County. A retired Columbus Township farmer, Mr. Rudat, son of Julius and Minnie Jackstadt Rudat, Platte County pioneers, was born in Butler Township on December 13, 1887. His father was born September 21, 1851, in Burgsdorf, Koenigsborg, Germany, and came to the United States with his parents in 1875. The family first lived in Omaha, where Julius Rudat was employed as a painter. In 1878, he came to Columbus and located on a farm southwest of Columbus. Mr. Rudat died December 8, 1930. Minnie Jackstadt, born May 20, 1853, in Burgsdorf, Koenigsborg, Germany, died in Columbus June 9, 1934.
Herman Julius Rudat has two brothers and one sister. Frank is married to Margaret Schroeder, and lives in California. Otto, also a Platte County supervisor, lives in Butler Township. Louise, widow of Jacob Louis, lives in Columbus.
Herman Rudat attended school in District 5, and the Columbus Business College. He married Lydia Rosine Ernst, daughter of Caesar and Mary Eisenmann Ernst, in Columbus on June 1, 1910.
Mr. Rudat farmed until 1945, when he retired and moved to Columbus. While on the farm, he took a great interest in raising purebred Chester White hogs.
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Since retiring, he has taken an active part in community affairs. He is a member of the Sons of Herman Lodge, the Eagles Lodge, a charter member of the Farmer's Union, the Birthday Club, and the Saturday Night Club. He is a charter member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, a past president of the congregation, and a member of the Brotherhood of the church.
Arthur N. Runge, son of August G. and Katherine Hafner Runge, and grandson of August Runge, prominent Platte County pioneer, was born November 12, 1901, in Platte County. His grandfather came to Platte County in 1867, from Germany, and homesteaded eighty acres of land in Bismark Township. The original claim grew into one of the county's finest farms. August G. Runge, Jr., was born in Germany on February 24, 1866. In 1900, he was married to Katherine Anna Hafner, who was born in Platte County on September 7, 1861. He died in Platte County March 25, 1928.
Mr. and Mrs. August G. Runge, Jr., had four children: Sophia is the widow of Christian Schreiber; August is married to Adela Siefken; and Katherine is the wife of Arthur Schreiber.
On October 3, 1923, at St. John's Lutheran Church at Shell Creek, Arthur Runge married Alma Bertha Schreiber, the daughter of William and Fredericka Benning Schreiber. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Runge have one daughter, Lucille Alma, born March 14, 1931.
Arthur Runge lived on a farm near Leigh, Nebraska, from 1907-1911. With the exception of these four years, he has always been a resident of Platte County. He is a member of the Farmers' Union and serves on the School Board of School District 2 in Bismark Township. The Runges belong to St. John's Lutheran Church, at Shell Creek.
Frederick H. Rusche was born of German parentage and came to Columbus, Nebraska, in 1879, where he was first employed by Dan Fawcett, a pioneer Columbus harness maker.
In the early 1880's, Mr. Rusche started the F. H. Rusche Harness Making Shop, which he conducted until 1918. He built the Rusche residence, at the corner of Twenty-fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street, where the Consumers Building is now located.
In 1906, he erected the Rusche flats, a four-flat apartment house, the first in Columbus. It is located at 2514 Fourteenth Street. In 1912, he built the Rusche business block, at 2408 Thirteenth Street.
On May 21, 1888, Frederick H. Rusche was married to Emma Elizabeth Bauer, the daughter of Tobias and Mamie Catherine Becker Bauer. Emma Bauer Rusche was a Columbus teacher, prior to her marriage.
F. H. and Emma Bauer Rusche had four children: Eleanor died August 13, 1913; Catherine is married to Doctor F. H. Morrow, of Columbus; Doctor Carl F. Rusche, a physician and surgeon, is married to Alice Smith and they live in Hollywood, California. Their son, Ronald, was born October 9, 1943. Louise Rusche is married to W. S. Frilot and lives in Los Angeles, California.
Mrs. Frederick H. Rusche died December 28, 1917.
Frederick H. Rusche held memberships in the Columbus Maennerchor Society and the Woodmen of America.
Reverend Claude Rust, O.F.M., a former pastor of St. Francis Church, Humphrey, Nebraska, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 27, 1900, the son of Bernard H. and Emma Meyrose Rust, both natives of St. Louis. His father died there on January 28, 1927, and his mother died on December 14, 1918. Reverend Claude Rust is one of a family of nine. He has six sisters and two brothers.
Reverend Rust received his early formal education at St. Anthony's School, St. Louis, where he spent eight years, and graduated from grammar school in 1913. He then enrolled in St. Joseph College, at Teutopolis, Illinois, where he took preparatory work and finished college in 1919. After the completion of his college course, he entered the Franciscan Seminary, at St. Louis, where he spent the next eight years in study. During this time, he served his novitiate, studied philosophy and theology.
Reverend Father Claude Rust was ordained at St. Anthony's Church, in St. Louis, on May 21, 1926, and celebrated his first mass at the same church on May 23, 1926.
Since finishing his final year of theology at the Seminary in 1927, Father Claude has served assignments as pastor at St. John's Church, New Prague, Minnesota; St. Bernard's Church in St. Bernard Township, near Lindsay, Nebraska; and St. Francis Church at Humphrey, Nebraska; and as assistant pastor at St. John's Church, Joliet, Illinois; and at St. Peter's Church, Chicago, Illinois. He served as chaplain at the Cook County Infirmary at Oak Forest, Illinois, and was a professor, on the faculty, at St. Joseph College, Westmont, Illinois.
Reverend Claude Rust, O.F.M., was appointed as pastor of St. Francis Church at Humphrey in 1945, and served until his death in 1949.
Reverend James Mary Ryan, known to all as Father Ryan, was an early-day Catholic missionary in Columbus. He was born in Ireland, in 1821, and as a boy received his first formal education, and later studied at the Seminary there.
In 1841, he went to England, where he remained for seven years. In 1848, he immigrated to America, locating in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he taught school for a year. Following this, Father Ryan attended Notre Dame University for three years. In 1852, he went to Chicago, where he was enrolled at St. Mary's of the Lake for one year. He then went to Atchison, Kansas, and studied theology for seven years.
Father Ryan came to Nebraska in 1860, and lived at the residence of the Right Reverend Bishop in Omaha.
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