Bio: Ruder, George (1881) 
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Surnames: Ruder, Schmidt

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 566

GEORGE RUDER, brewer, Wausau, was born in Bavaria, Sept. 7, 1827, and came from Germany to Stevens Point, Wis., in 1854, living there until 1860, when he came to Wausau, and engaged in the brewery business. He built his brewery in 1860, began operating it in 1861, and has continued it ever since, with the exception of eight months' time spent in lumbering. He employs on an average five men in the brewery, and manufactures about 3,000 barrels of beer a year. Mr. Ruder was married at Stevens Point, in April, 1857, to Louise Schmidt, who was born in Prussia. They have ten children — Louis, Emil, Hermann, Clara, Emma, Edward, Henry, William, Helen and Ella. Mr. Ruder is a member of the I. O. O. F.; he has been village President, and was Alderman four terms.