Virginia J Van Ruschen

Virginia married Loren F Gutzler [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rodney Eugene Gutzler

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H. Van Ruschen is a practicing attorney of Marion, Turner county. He was born in Illinois on the 4th of April, 1877, a son of W. and Johanna (Addengast) Van Ruschen. The family came to South Dakota in 1879 and settled on a homestead near Chancellor. During the first year of their residence here a cyclone destroyed their cabin, then the grasshoppers and the drought came and no crops were produced. The family bore many hardships and privations incident to frontier life under such conditions, but in time their courage and determination triumphed and success came to them. The father is now living retired in Marion.

H. Van Ruschen was educated in the district schools and afterward held various clerical positions. At length he determined upon the practice of law as a life work and with that end in view began reading in the office and under the direction of the firm of Jones & Jones of Parker. In 1906 he took the bar examination and was admitted to practice and in December of the same year was admitted to practice in the United States courts. He is the pioneer lawyer of Marion and has resided there continuously since 1888. From the first he has been accorded a large and distinctively representative clientage and his ability has advanced him to a front rank among the able lawyers of his part of the state.

On the 16th of September, 1909, Mr. Van Ruschen was united in marriage to Miss Susan Vogt, her father being Jacob F. Vogt, a pioneer of this state. To this union has been born a daughter, Mildred.

In religious faith Mr. Van Ruschen is a Protestant and in politics hi independent, with leanings toward the progressive party. Fraternally he is an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Woodman, a Yeoman and a Loyal American, and he is also connected with the Rebekah degree of Odd Fellowship. He has been identified with the local newspaper of Marion and he has served as president of the Commercial Club and of the local improvement club. He is treasurer of the Cemetery Association. On several occasions he has been called to public office, as he served as city attorney from 1908 to 1912, and has also been justice of the peace and school clerk, while in 1909 he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature. He made a creditable, record and received the indorsement of his fellow townsmen but declined a reelection. In 1915 he was again appointed city attorney. He has ever worked for the advancement and upbuilding of the community in which he makes his home and has ever indorsed those plans and movements which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride. His worth is widely acknowledged by his fellow townsmen, who find in him a man worthy of public trust and one whose devotion to the general good stands above question.

Harmon married Susanna Bessie Vogt. Susanna was born on 26 May 1889 in Parker, Turner, South Dakota, United States; died on 15 Jan 1968 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]