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- Home Page |Surname List |Index of Individuals |InterneTree | Sources David Rusk (b. Abt. 1820, d. September 01, 1877) David Rusk (son of John Rusk and Mary Sterritt) was born Abt. 1820 in SC, and died September 01, 1877 in Orange Co., TX. He married Elizabeth Reid on January 26, 1843, daughter of John Reid. Notes for David Rusk: Various sources show David Rusk's birth date to be 1807, 1814, and 1817. The 1860 Census lists him as being 48, which would make his date of birth about 1811. "The Heroes of San Jacinto" shows that David was Sheriff of Nacogdoches county from 1840 to 1846. Yet another source, "Towering Texan" by Cleburne Huston puts him at "barely 20" when he became sheriff. If these sources are correct, David would have been born in 1820, not 1811. According to Lois Foster Blount in "The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, "Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, January 1931, page 191, David Rusk was "a tall youth of nineteen..." in 1836. This would made the date of his birth Abt 1817. The following is from "The Heroes of San Jacinto": "Rusk, David. Brother to Thomas J. Rusk; emigrated to Texas in January 1836. Service Record No. 1233 discloses that Mr. Rusk served in Captain Hayden Arnold's company from April 6 to June 6, 1836. He re-enlisted May 8 in Captain Arnold's company. He was sheriff of Nacogdoches county, 1840--46. He married Miss Elizabeth Reid at Nacogdoches, January 26, 1843. Mr. Rusk was a member of the Texas Veterans Association; died in Orange county, September 11, 1877." There is a bit confusion regarding the period David served as Sheriff of Nacogdoches. According to family lore and verified by "The Bicentennial commemorative History of Nacogdoches, "published by the Nacogdoches Jaycees in 1976, David served as sheriff from 1836 to May, 1847. My grandfather, William Henry Rusk, frequently related to seeing him ride up on his horse and appearing as a "giant." Following is a quote from Ms. Bobi Rusk, widow of James Cullen Rusk (b. 4/21/1935, d. 8/19/1999), a descendant of David):"... I have seen and held the muslin shirt and pants that belonged to David Rusk, and if you have heard or read that he was a large man, believe it. I am 5'10" and I could hold his shirt at my eye level and it drug the ground. I can remember my husband's dad, whom we called Keith, saying that David was uncomfortable with his height of 8' and always told anyone asking, that he was 7'12"." David married Elizabeth Reid on 1/26/1843. Elizabeth was born in 1822 and died 12/16/1908. They had ten children: John, Mary Jane, Elizabeth Ann, Ophelia, David Franklin, Charles H., Harriet T., Martha H., Nicholas and William H. Notes on death of David Rusk: "(Thomas J.) Rusk was survived by his five children and his brother, David. The latter died in 1908." Mary Whatley Clarke "Thomas J. Rusk, Soldier-Statesman-Jurist", (Jenkins Publishing Company, The Pemberton Press, Austin and New York, 1971) pp 209The following is from a biography of David Rusk on San Jacinto Museum's web site at http://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/kemp/v709.html:"RUSK, DAVID -- Born in South Carolina in 1814, a son of John and Mary (Sterritt) Rusk, and brother of General Thomas J. Rusk. In Headright Certificate No. 157, issued to him February 6, 1838 for one-third of a league of land by the Nacogdoches County Board, it is stated that he came to Texas in January, 1836. On December 30, 1837 he received Bounty Certificate No. 1184 for 320 acres of land for having served in the army from March 6 to June 6, 1836. He was a member of Captain Hayden Arnold's Company at San Jacinto and Donation Certificate No. 96 for 640 acres of land was issued to him May 18, 1836 for having participated in the battle.Mr. Rusk was Sheriff at Nacogdoches County, Texas, from 1840 to 1846. He was married to Elizabeth Reid at Nacogdoches, January 26, 1843. Mr. Rusk died September 1, 1877 and is buried in a marked grave in Oak Grave Cemetery in Nacogdoches. He was a member of the Texas Veterans Association. At the death of Mrs. Rusk, the date of which has not been ascertained, her remains were placed beside those of her husband. Her grave is unmarked.Children of Mr. and Mrs. Rusk were (1) Mary Jane; (2) Elizabeth Ann; (3) Charles H.; (4) Aphelia; (5) Martha H.; (6) William H.; (7) Harriet T.; and (8) John Rusk.(1) Mary Jane Rusk was married to James A. Day.(2) Elizabeth Ann Rusk was married to John T. White.(3) Charles H. Rusk died at the age of ten.(4) Ophelia Rusk died at the age of six.(5) Martha H. Rusk died at the age of eight.(6) William H. Rusk died at the age of twenty-one.(7) Harriet T. Rusk was married to __________. (8) John Rusk, youngest child of David and Elizabeth (Reid) Rusk was married to __________. Their children were (a) Edward; (b) Helen; (c) __________; (d) __________; (e) __________; and (f) __________"More About David Rusk:Burial: Unknown, Oak Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Texas. More About David Rusk and Elizabeth Reid:Marriage: January 26, 1843Children of David Rusk and Elizabeth Reid are:+John Rusk, b. November 1843, Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches Co., TX, d. July 02, 1928, Nacogdoches, TX.+Mary Jane Rusk, b. August 26, 1845, Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches Co., TX, d. February 08, 1871.Elizabeth Ann Rusk, b. February 05, 1848, d. August 21, 1868.Ophelia Rusk, b. November 19, 1850, d. January 24, 1862.+David Franklin Rusk, b. July 25, 1852, Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches Co., TX, d. December 24, 1911, Small Community, North of Edgewood, TX.Charles H. Rusk, b. July 09, 1855, d. August 03, 1866.+Harriet T. Rusk, b. October 15, 1857, d. November 23, 1885.Martha H. Rusk, b. February 27, 1860, d. March 31, 1868.Nicholas J. Rusk, b. May 1860, d. date unknown.William H. Rusk, b. September 01, 1863, d. March 12, 1884. Home|Help|About Us|Biography.com|HistoryChannel.com|Site Index|Terms of Service|PRIVACY© 2009 Ancestry.comRUSK, DAVIDRUSK, DAVID (?-1877). David Rusk, soldier and law-enforcement officer, was the son of John and Mary (Sterritt) Rusk. He and his brother Thomas Jefferson Rusk immigrated to Texas in 1836 from Clarksville, Georgia, and settled in Nacogdoches. He enlisted on April 6, 1836, as a private in Capt. Hayden Arnold's First Company of Col. Sidney Sherman's Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers, and fought in the battle of San Jacinto. Rusk was five times elected sheriff of Nacogdoches County, first in 1837 and last on March 2, 1845. In 1859-60 he succeeded William R. Scurry as acting commissioner of the boundary survey. Rusk was married to Elizabeth Reid. He died in Orange County on September 11, 1877.BIBLIOGRAPHY: Compiled Index to Elected and Appointed Officials of the Republic of Texas, 1835-1846 (Austin: State Archives, Texas State Library, 1981). Sam Houston Dixon and Louis Wiltz Kemp, The Heroes of San Jacinto (Houston: Anson Jones Press, 1932). Thomas Jefferson Rusk Papers, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds., The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 (8 vols., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1938-43; rpt., Austin and New York: Pemberton Press, 1970).Thomas W. CutrerWhoWhenCitationThe following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Thomas W. Cutrer, "RUSK, DAVID," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fru15), accessed December 30, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Another family line published for the Rusk Families are as follows:
1680 - 1689
1688 ESCAPED Claude de Roux [8047]
Chevalier de Saint-Laurent, Biscayne Privateer, along with twelve or thirteen flibustiers from his crew, into Puerto Rico.
1750 - 1759
1750 BORN John R. Rusk [8004]
Ulster, Ireland
1754 BORN Ann Robb [5129]
Maryland. Birth year is taken from the Pension Claim filed by her husband [5128].
1754 BORN James Rusk [5128]
Near Londonderry, Ireland. Some sources show birth date as 1745 but age shown on Pension Claim states he was 66 in 1820
1770 - 1779
1773 BORN David Rusk [8022]
Ulster, Ireland.
1774 EMIGRATED James Rusk [5128]
From Ireland to the Port of Baltimore. Sold to the highest bidder to make good his passage, he worked on a plantation in Maryland. He formed a close friendship with John Faulkner [5130].
1775 BORN James Rusk [8002]
Antrim, Ireland
1776 BORN Jennett Gourley [8081] (Jane)
In Ireland or South Carolina.
1777 ENLISTED James Rusk [5128]
When the American Revolution began he sought and received a transfer from his indentured status to the Army of the Revolution. He travelled to Nottingham Township, York County, Pennsylvania and joined Captain James Grier's Company in Col. James Chamber's Second Pennsylvania Regiment.
1780 - 1789
1781 DISCHARGED James Rusk [5128]
From the Army, at Trenton, New Jersey.
1782 BORN John P. Rusk [5139]
Pennsylvania.
1782 MARRIED James Rusk [5128] and Ann Robb [5129]
1783 BORN Nancy Rusk [5152]
Birth year is estimated
1784 BORN Sarah Rusk [5153]
Year estimated based on lists of children.
1785 BORN Samuel Rusk [5140]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Implied from accounts.
1786 BORN Daniel Rusk [5113]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1787 BORN James Rusk [5141]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Speculative date and birth order.
1788 BORN Abraham May Crooks [5117]
Virginia
1788 BORN George Bauer [5136]
Bavaria
1788 BORN Elizabeth [5238]
Canada
1790 - 1799
1790 BORN Jane Faulkner [5114]
Pennsylvania
1793 EMIGRATED John R. Rusk [8004]
From Ulster, Ireland to Port of Charleston, South Carolina. He was a
1794 BORN Catherine Margaret Kophvel [5137]
1795 BORN William Rusk [5142]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Date speculative
1798 BORN Jane Rusk [5151]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Speculative date.
1800 - 1809
1801 EMIGRATED David Rusk [8022]
From County Antrim, Province of Ulster, Ireland to New York.
1801 BORN Margaret Rusk [5143]
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1802 MOVED David Rusk [8022]
From New York to Charleston, South Carolina.
1803 BORN Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003]
Pendleton District, South Carolina
1804 MARRIED John P. Rusk [5139] and Elizabeth [5238]
Date is a guess
1804 BORN Hugh Rusk [8074]
1805 EMIGRATED James Rusk [8002]
From Ireland to the Port of Charleston, South Carolina. He was a native of County of Antrim in Ireland.
1805 MARRIED Samuel Rusk [5140] and Brown [5162]
Year is a guess.
1806 BORN William John Rusk [8075]
1809 BORN Nancy Rusk [8076]
1809 CITIZENSHIP OATH James Rusk [8002]
At the Clerk of Court Office, Anderson, South Carolina, Pendleton District.
1810 - 1819
1810 BORN Francis Hollenbeck [5219]
New York.
1810 MARRIED Daniel Rusk [5113] and Jane Faulkner [5114]
Date estimated.
1811 BORN John Rusk [5144]
Valley of the Muskingum, Ohio. Date estimated.
1811 BORN Easther Rusk [8070]
1811 BORN Mary Ann Rusk [8077]
1812 BORN Nancy Rusk [8031]
1813 BORN Annie Rusk [5145]
Estimated.
1813 MARRIED George Bauer [5136] and Catherine Margaret Kophvel [5137]
Bavaria
1814 BORN Margaret Ann [5220]
New York.
1814 BORN David Rusk Jr. [8078]
Pendleton District, South Carolina.
1815 BORN Samuel Kretsinger [5207]
Virginia
1815 BORN [5138]
1815 BORN James Rusk [5103]
Valley of the Muskingum, Ohio
1816 BORN Matilda [5234]
Ohio
1816 MARRIED Abraham May Crooks [5117] and Catherine Conrad [5118]
Viroqua, Wisconsin
1817 BORN Mary Melvina Crooks [5164]
1817 BORN Anna Marie Little [5104]
Vermont
1817 BORN Ruel Rusk [5146]
Valley of the Muskingum, Ohio. Estimated
1817 BORN Ellen Rusk [8079]
1817 BORN David Rusk [8023]
South Carolina.
1818 BORN Catharine [5208]
Maryland.
1818 PENSION CLAIM FILED James Rusk [5128]
In Perry County, Ohio. Claim No. S. 40369 based on the military services of James Rusk during the War of the Revolution.
1819 BORN Daniel Rusk [5147]
Valley of the Muskingum, Ohio.
1820 - 1829
1820 BORN James William Crooks [5166]
1820 BORN Christian Bower (Bauer) [5119]
Paris, France
1821 BORN James Sullivan [5106]
Pike County, Ohio
1821 BORN Jane B. Rusk [8071]
1821 BORN Elizabeth Rusk [5148]
Valley of the Muskingum, Ohio.
1821 BORN Mary [5225]
Virginia
1822 BORN James Edward Rusk [8080]
1822 BORN Charles Fenton Crooks [5167]
1823 BORN Mary Melissa Rusk [8030]
1823 BORN Jane Rusk [5154]
1824 BORN John Conrad Crooks [5168]
1824 BORN Simon Rusk [5155]
Valley of the Muskingum, Ohio.
1825 MOVED Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003]
From Pendleton District, South Carolina to Clarksville, Georgia.
1825 BORN Allen Rusk [5149]
Valley of the Muskingum, Ohio.
1827 BORN Henry Green Crooks [5169]
1827 BORN Margaret Rusk [5156]
Valley of the Muskingum, Ohio.
1827 MARRIED Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003] and Mary F. Cleveland [8006]
Clarksville, Georgia
1828 BORN Benjamin Livingston Rusk [8020]
Clarksville, Habersham County, Georgia.
1828 BORN Rachel W. Rusk [8072]
1829 BORN John Rusk [8027]
Clarksville, Habersham County, Georgia.
1830 - 1839
1830 BORN Robert Nelson Crooks [5170]
1830 BORN Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
Valley of the Muskingum, Ohio.
1832 BORN John Hart [8066]
Morgan County, Ohio.
1832 MARRIED McKay [5123] and Jane Cary [5124]
Guess on the year.
1832 BORN Mary J. Martin [5179]
Perry County, Ohio.
1832 BORN Thomas Jefferson Rusk Jr. [8033]
Clarksville, Habersham County, Georgia.
1833 BORN Cyrus Edward Crooks [5171]
1834 MARRIED Francis Hollenbeck [5219] and Margaret Ann [5220]
Year is estimated.
1834 DIED Thomas Jefferson Rusk Jr. [8033]
1834 BORN Cicero Rusk [8021]
Clarksville, Georgia.
1835 BORN Elizabeth Hollenbeck [5221]
New York.
1835 MOVED Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003]
From Clarksville, Georgia to Nacogdoches, Texas.
1836 BORN Elizabeth Catherine Crooks [5107]
Kentucky
1836 APPOINTED Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003]
First Secretary of War. Actually took command of the Army at the Battle of San Jacinto and remained in command until October, 1836.
1836 MARRIED George Pearce [5121] and Louisa Goddard [5122]
1836 SIGNED Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003]
Texas Declaration of Independence at Washington on the Brazos.
1836 ELECTED Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003]
As delegate to Convention for Texas Independence.
1836 DIED Jackson J. Rusk [8001]
The Alamo, Texas
1837 BORN Jasper Hollenbeck [5222]
New York.
1837 ELECTED Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003]
Texas House of Representatives of the Second Congress.
1837 BORN Alonzo Rusk [8036]
Nacogdoches, Texas.
1837 MARRIED Fitch [5165] and Mary Melvina Crooks [5164]
Year is estimated.
1838 APPOINTED Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003]
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. Served through 1842.
1838 DIED Alonzo Rusk [8036]
1838 MARRIED Samuel Kretsinger [5207] and Catharine [5208]
Year is estimated.
1838 MARRIED James Rusk [5103] and Anna Marie Little [5104]
Rawlins, Wyoming. Place is surmised.
1839 BORN Sarah Rusk [5229]
Malta Township, Morgan County, Ohio.
1839 BORN Martha [5206]
Virginia
1839 MARRIED Daniel Rusk [5147] and Matilda [5234]
Year is a guess
1839 DIED James Rusk [5128]
Clayton Township, Perry County, Ohio. At about age 85
1840 - 1849
1840 MARRIED Christian Bower (Bauer) [5119] and Theodosia Eggleston [5120]
Date is a guess.
1840 BORN William U. Kretsinger [5205]
Maryland
1841 BORN Thomas David Rusk [8032]
Nacogdoches, Texas.
1841 BORN Elizabeth Rusk [5230]
Malta Township, Morgan County, Ohio.
1841 DIED David Rusk [8022]
1841 BORN James Rusk [5235]
Ohio
1842 BORN Emma Frances Braille [5126]
New York, New York.
1843 BORN Kitty Rusk [5231]
Malta Township, Morgan County, Ohio.
1844 DIED John R. Rusk [8004]
1844 BORN David L. Kretsinger [5209]
Indiana
1845 BORN Martha H. Hollenbeck [5223]
New York.
1845 MARRIED Allen Rusk [5149] and Mary [5225]
Year is a guess
1845 BORN Henry M. Rusk [5226]
Ohio
1845 BORN Albert Rusk [5232]
Malta Township, Morgan County, Ohio.
1845 BORN Helena Argin Rusk [8026]
Nacogdoches, Texas.
1845 BORN Mary Jane Rusk [8029]
Texas.
1846 ELECTED Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003]
Democrat Senator from the new state of Texas. Started when Texas was admitted to the Union and was re-elected in 1851 and 1857.
1846 BORN Hannah J. Rusk [5227]
Ohio
1846 DIED Daniel Rusk [5113]
Deerfield, Morgan County
1847 BORN Mary L. [5039]
Virginia.
1847 BORN Susan E. [5211]
Pennsylvania.
1847 BORN Isaac H. Hollenbeck [5224]
New York.
1848 BORN Henry Hollenbeck [5040]
New York.
1848 BORN Albert J. Rusk [5228]
Ohio
1848 BORN Isaac W. Kretsinger [5038]
Illinois.
1848 BORN Millard Rusk [5233]
Malta Township, Morgan County, Ohio.
1849 MARRIED John Rusk [8027] and Harriet Ann Patton [8042]
Texas. Place surmised.
1849 MARRIED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150] and Mary J. Martin [5179]
Porterville, Ohio
1849 JOB Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
Foreman for the Zanesville and Wilmington Railroad. Converted his father's cabin into a cooper shop where he made barrels for the salt makers.
1849 BORN Samuel A. Kretsinger [5210]
Wisconsin.
1849 MARRIED Rachel W. Rusk [8072] and Samuel McWhorter [8073]
Oconee County, South Carolina
1850 - 1859
1850 BORN Lycurgus J. Rusk [5157]
Ohio. Estimated
1851 EMIGRATED John Rusk [8068]
From Ayrshire, Scotland.
1851 BORN Eliza Pearce [5110]
Waukesho County, Wisconsin
1851 BORN Charity Rusk [5181]
Ohio
1852 BORN Fannie Barnes [5041]
Missouri.
1852 BORN Thomas Rusk [8043]
1852 BORN Harry Welles Rusk [8007]
Baltimore, Maryland
1853 MOVED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
To Viroqua, Wisconsin
1853 BORN Christopher Columbus Bower [5109]
Warsaw, Kentucky
1853 BORN Mary J. Rusk [5183]
1854 DIED Mary J. Rusk [5183]
1855 MARRIED Howell [5108] and Elizabeth Catherine Crooks [5107]
Date is estimated.
1855 ELECTED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
As Sheriff of Bad Ax County, Wisconsin. Served through 1857. He was also the coroner during 1857.
1856 DIED Mary J. Martin [5179]
Viroqua, Wisconsin.
1856 MARRIED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150] and Elizabeth M. Johnson [5180]
Viroqua, Wisconsin
1856 BORN John McKay [5111]
New York
1856 DIED Mary F. Cleveland [8006]
Nacogdoches, Texas. Died of Tuberculosis.
1857 MARRIED James Sullivan [5106] and Elizabeth Catherine Crooks [5107]
Her second marriage.
1857 DIED Thomas Jefferson Rusk [8003]
Nacogdoches, Texas. Committed suicide.
1857 BORN Mary Edith Rusk [5158]
Estimated
1858 DIED Catherine Margaret Kophvel [5137]
1858 BORN Blaine Daniel Rusk [5159]
Estimated
1859 DIED Abraham May Crooks [5117]
1859 BORN Ida Belle Stone [5112]
Dansville, New York
1859 BORN Ida Rusk [5184]
Estimated
1860 - 1869
1860 BORN David Rusk [5098]
Viroqua, Wisconsin
1860 MARRIED William U. Kretsinger [5205] and Martha [5206]
1860 DIED Harriet Ann Patton [8042]
Atlanta, Georgia
1860 DIED Alonzo Rusk [5185]
1860 BORN Alonzo Rusk [5185]
1862 BORN Edward J. Wilcox [5028]
Ohio.
1862 ENLISTED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
As a Major of the U.S. Army 25th Infantry
1863 DIED Helena Argin Rusk [8026]
1863 MARRIED Elias V. Stone [5125] and Emma Frances Braille [5126]
Year is guessed based on him dying in the Civil War and she remarrying about 1865 and her age.
1864 DIED Cicero Rusk [8021]
Nacogdoches, Texas.
1864 EMIGRATED David Thomas Rusk [8069]
From Ayrshire, Scotland.
1865 MARRIED Andrew Barnes [5127] and Emma Frances Braille [5126]
Year is approximate.
1865 DISCHARGED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
From the Army.
1865 PROMOTED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
To Colonel and Brigadier General.
1866 ELECTED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
Bank Comptroller for the State of Wisconsin. A position he held until he ran for Congress in 1870.
1867 BORN Flora Estella Martin [5029]
Delaware County, Ohio.
1867 MARRIED David L. Kretsinger [5209] and Susan E. [5211]
Year is an estimate.
1868 DIED Theodosia Eggleston [5120]
1869 DIED Christian Bower (Bauer) [5119]
1869 BORN Douglass C. Kretsinger [5199]
Virginia. In the 1880 census his mother listed his birthplace as Kansas.
1870 - 1879
1870 ELECTED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Served in the 42nd, 43rd and 44th Congress's from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1877.
1871 BORN Claude Ewing Rusk [8063]
1871 BORN Fannie Belle Sullivan [5099]
Lone Tree, Nebraska
1871 DIED Mary Jane Rusk [8029]
1872 DIED James Rusk [5103]
Morgan Count, Ohio
1872 BORN William S. Kretsinger [5202]
Kansas.
1872 MARRIED Henry Hollenbeck [5040] and Fannie Barnes [5041]
Year is estimated.
1872 BORN William Hollenbeck [5218]
Missouri.
1872 BORN Leamer Kretsinger [5212]
Kansas
1872 MARRIED Elmer H. Craig [5182] and Charity Rusk [5181]
Year is a guess
1872 BORN Ralph M. Rusk [8040]
Missouri.
1874 BORN Martin Lebo Kretsinger [5030]
Kansas.
1875 DIED Thomas David Rusk [8032]
Nacogdoches, Texas.
1875 MARRIED Thomas Rusk [8043] and Mary R. Hardgrove [8044]
Nacogdoches, Texas
1876 ELECTED Harry Welles Rusk [8007]
Delegate to Maryland State House. Elected for two more terms in 1878 and
1876 BORN John Lawrence Rusk [9002]
In Nacogdoches, Texas.
1876 MARRIED Christopher Columbus Bower [5109] and Eliza Pearce [5110]
1877 DIED Jane Faulkner [5114]
1877 BORN Maggie B. Kretsinger [5203]
Kansas.
1877 BORN Alta M. Hollenbeck [5031]
Missouri.
1877 BORN Ann Amelia Rusk [8045]
Nacogdoches, Texas.
1877 DIED David Rusk [8023]
1878 MARRIED John McKay [5111] and Ida Belle Stone [5112]
1879 BORN Robert Robertson Rusk [8062]
1880 - 1889
1880 BORN David Demarquis Rusk [9022]
Nacogdoches, Texas.
1880 BORN Helen [5204]
Missouri.
1880 BORN Daisy May McKay [5102]
Ransom, Illinois.
1880 BORN Frederick Arthur Bower [5101]
Larned, Kansas.
1882 ELECTED Harry Welles Rusk [8007]
Maryland State Senate. Elected again in 1884.
1882 ELECTED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
Governor of Wisconsin. Served two terms until 1889.
1884 MARRIED Edward J. Wilcox [5028] and Flora Estella Martin [5029]
1885 BORN William Henry Rusk [8035]
Nacogdoches, Texas.
1885 DIED Benjamin Livingston Rusk [8020]
Nacogdoches, Texas.
1885 DIED Ida Rusk [5184]
1886 MOVED David Rusk [5098]
To Rawlins, Wyoming where he served several terms in the State Legislature. (The date is approximate, it may be 1884. There seems to be other contradictory evidence because the census shows a David Little Rusk residing on Pine Street in Rawlins, Carbon County, Ohio working as a
1886 ELECTED Harry Welles Rusk [8007]
Democrat Representative to the U.S. House of Representatives. He completed the term of a representative who had died in office. He was elected five
1886 BORN Mary E. Wilcox [5080]
Kansas.
1887 BORN Flora Belle Wilcox [5082]
Kansas.
1888 BORN Ralph Leslie Rusk [8050]
1888 MARRIED Isaac W. Kretsinger [5038] and Mary L. [5039]
Year is questionable.
1888 BORN Fate Rusk [8025]
Nacogdoches, Texas.
1888 BORN Olive E. Wilcox [5084]
Kansas.
1889 APPOINTED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
Secretary of Agriculture under President Harrison. He served until March 5, 1893. While in Washington he resided at 1330 Massachusetts Avenue.
1890 - 1899
1890 BORN Chauncey Wilcox [5088]
Kansas.
1891 BORN Hazel V. Wilcox [5086]
Kansas.
1891 MARRIED Ralph M. Rusk [8040] and Talitha Almedia Roberson [8041] Adeline
Duffau, Erath County, Texas
1892 MARRIED David Rusk [5098] and Fannie Belle Sullivan [5099]
Rawlins, Wyoming
1892 BORN William Sener Rusk [8058]
1892 BORN Rogers D. Rusk [8052]
1892 BORN Willard Weaver Rusk [5175]
Rawlins, Wyoming.
1892 BORN Ella Amy McFarland [9003]
Weston, Texas.
1893 DIED Anna Marie Little [5104]
Denver, Colorado
1893 DIED Jeremiah McClain Rusk [5150]
Viroqua, Wisconsin
1894 BORN David R. Rusk [5239]
Rawlins, Wyoming
1894 MARRIED Martin Lebo Kretsinger [5030] and Alta M. Hollenbeck [5031]
1895 BORN Violet B. Kretsinger [5197]
Texas.
1895 BORN Katie Ophelie Rusk [8028]
Kaufman, Texas.
1895 MARRIED Sidney Thomas Terry [8046] and Ann Amelia Rusk [8045]
1895 BORN Harry M. Wilcox [5079]
Kansas.
1897 DIED Mary Melissa Rusk [8030]
1897 BORN Beatrice P. Kretsinger [5198]
Texas. The 1900 census shows her birthplace as Kansas.
1897 BORN Fred J. Wilcox [5089]
Kansas.
1898 MARRIED John Lawrence Rusk [9002]
1898 DIED John Rusk [8027]
Colfax, Texas.
1899 BORN Roy Albert Wilcox [5020]
Nemeha County, Kansas.
1899 DIED Elizabeth Catherine Crooks [5107]
Wyoming
1900 - 1909
1900 DIED James Sullivan [5106]
Wyoming
1901 DIED [5138]
Died after this date.
1901 BORN Howard A. Rusk [8017]
1901 MARRIED Frederick Arthur Bower [5101] and Daisy May McKay [5102]
1902 BORN James Henry Rusk [5022]
Rawlins, Wyoming.
1902 BORN Lillian Alexandria Kretsinger [5021]
Texas.
1905 FOUNDED Harry P. Rusk [8013] and Earl Rusk [8014]
Along with Earl Rusk [8014], the Agriculture Club for the College of Agriculture at the University of Missouri. Together with D. Howard Doane,
1906 BORN Roger Rusk [8059]
1906 MARRIED Wadsworth [5081] and Mary E. Wilcox [5080]
Year is estimated.
1906 BORN Howard Long [8053]
1907 MARRIED Arnold [5083] and Flora Belle Wilcox [5082]
Year is estimated.
1908 MARRIED Bozell [5085] and Olive E. Wilcox [5084]
Year is estimated.
1908 DIED David Rusk [5098]
Palisades, Colorado
1908 MARRIED William S. Kretsinger [5202] and Helen [5204]
Kansas. His second marriage.
1909 MARRIED David Demarquis Rusk [9022] and Ella Mable McBride [9019]
Bright Star Church, Wills Point, Texas.
1909 BORN David Dean Rusk [8048]
1910 - 1919
1911 MARRIED Bierer [5087] and Hazel V. Wilcox [5086]
Year is estimated.
1912 BORN William Carl Rusk [8034]
Wills Point, Texas.
1912 BORN William Carl Rusk [9004]
Wills Point, Texas.
1914 DIED Emma Frances Braille [5126]
Palisades, Colorado.
1915 BORN Pearl Venita Stroud [9006]
Batesville, Arkansas.
1915 PUBLISHED Harriet Rusk [8016]
'For He Loved Her' through Huntinger & Dilworth, New York.
1915 BORN Mary Bessie Rusk [9005]
Wills Point, Texas.
1916 DIED Ida Belle Stone [5112]
Palisades, Colorado.
1918 PUBLISHED William James Rusk [8049]
'Introduction to the Elementary Functions' as a co-author with Ramond Benedict McClenon. Ginn and Company, Boston.
1919 MARRIED I. W. Charles [5100] and Fannie Belle Sullivan [5099]
1919 DIED Elizabeth M. Johnson [5180]
1920 - 1929
1922 MARRIED Roy Albert Wilcox [5020] and Lillian Alexandria Kretsinger [5021]
Emporia, Kansas.
1923 BORN Don Myers Rusk [8010]
Pueblo, Colorado
1924 BORN Bonnie Faye Rusk [9001]
1924 MARRIED James Henry Rusk [5022] and Florence Allene Bower [5023]
1924 PUBLISHED Claude Ewing Rusk [8063]
'Tales of a Western Mountaineer'. Houghton Mifflin, Boston. A reprint was done in 1978 by Mountaineers, Seattle. contains a portrait of C. E. Rusk by
1925 PUBLISHED Rogers D. Rusk [8052]
'The Absorption of Hydrogen in Potassium Vapor Arcs'. University of
1926 DIED Harry Welles Rusk [8007]
Baltimore, Maryland. Interred at Greenmount Cemetery.
1929 DIED Eliza Pearce [5110]
Palisades, Colorado
1930 - 1939
1930 DIED Mary E. Wilcox [5080]
Kansas.
1931 DIED Claude Ewing Rusk [8063]
1931 GRADUATED David Dean Rusk [8048]
From Davidson College.
1933 DIED Thomas Rusk [8043]
Colfax, Texas.
1933 DIED Daisy May McKay [5102]
Palisades, Colorado.
1933 MARRIED William Carl Rusk [9004] and Pearl Venita Stroud [9006]
Wills Point, Texas.
1934 GRADUATED David Dean Rusk [8048]
From Oxford with a Masters Degree. He was a Rhodes Scholar.
1936 DIED Christopher Columbus Bower [5109]
Palisades, Colorado
1939 DIED Edward J. Wilcox [5028]
1939 PUBLISHED Ralph Leslie Rusk [8050]
'The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson'. Columbia University Press, New York. Rusk is a co-editor with Eleanor Marguerite Tilton.
1940 - 1949
1940 PUBLISHED Zay Rusk [8051]
'A Concordance to the English Poems of John Donne'. Packard and Company, Chicago. Zay was a joint author with Homer Carroll Combs.
1940 DIED Mary R. Hardgrove [8044]
Colfax, Texas.
1941 BORN Jerrold G. Rusk [8055]
1942 DIED John Lawrence Rusk [9002]
In Nacogdoches, Texas.
1944 DIED John McKay [5111]
Colorado.
1945 DIED Martin Lebo Kretsinger [5030]
1947 APPOINTED David Dean Rusk [8048]
Assistant Secretary of State.
1948 DIED Fannie Belle Sullivan [5099]
Rawlins, Wyoming
1948 FOUNDED Howard A. Rusk [8017]
Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. He is considered the father of comprehensive rehabilitation medicine. He developed innovative techniques to treat wounded Air Force personnel during World War II. These techniques became the basis for our current practice of rehabilitation
1948 PUBLISHED Willard Weaver Rusk [5175]
'A Various Language'. A book of poetry he had written in the early 1920's.
1949 DIED Sidney Thomas Terry [8046]
Colfax, Texas.
1949 MARRIED Oliver Gene Crawford [5072] and Connie Wilcox [5071]
1950 - 1959
1950 DIED Ann Amelia Rusk [8045]
Colfax, Texas.
1951 DIED Flora Belle Wilcox [5082]
Kansas.
1952 ELECTED David Dean Rusk [8048]
President of the Rockefeller Foundation - a position he held until 1960 when he was appointed Secretary of State.
1953 DIED Flora Estella Martin [5029]
Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.
1954 MARRIED Martin (Skip) Roy Wilcox [5073] and Zelma Reed [5074]
Roswell, New Mexico.
1955 DIED Alta M. Hollenbeck [5031]
1956 DIED Frederick Arthur Bower [5101]
Grand Junction, Colorado.
1958 PUBLISHED Rogers D. Rusk [8052]
'Introduction to Atomic and Nuclear Physics'. Appleton-Century-Crofts, New
1959 DIED Ella Mable McBride [9019]
1960 - 1969
1960 PUBLISHED Howard Long [8053]
'The People of Mushan; Life in a Taiwanese Village'. University of Missouri Press, Columbia. Mostly illustrations.
1960 APPOINTED David Dean Rusk [8048]
Secretary of State by John F. Kennedy. He continued to serve under Lyndon Johnson until Johnson left office in 1969.
1961 MARRIED Billy Don Rusk [9008] and Ida Marie McGowan [9010]
Munger Place Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas.
1962 PUBLISHED Ralph Leslie Rusk [8050]
'The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier'. F. Ungar Publishing
1962 DESIGNED Sigsby Rusk [8015]
An A/D (analog to digital) converter from fast ECL logic capable of 8-bit resolution at 100 Khz. Wireframe animations of a sort were produced using a D/A converter to drive an oscilloscope which was then photographed 1 frame
1962 DIED Ralph Leslie Rusk [8050]
1964 PUBLISHED Howard A. Rusk [8017]
'Rehabilitation Medicine; A Textbook on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation'. Mosby, St. Louis. With 36 collaborators and editorial assistance of Eugene J. Taylor. This was the second edition. A third edition was published in 1971 and a fourth edition was published in 1977.
1966 APPOINTED Sigsby Rusk [8015]
Head of Computer Project at Rice University. The project's purpose was to design a computer as powerful as Los Alamos' MANIAC II.
1966 PUBLISHED Fern Rusk [8054]
'Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools'. Phaidon P. for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, London. 3 volume set covering the
1967 PUBLISHED Elizabeth H. Rusk [8056]
'Preparing English Teachers for the Secondary School'. Educational Publication Services, College of Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Rusk was a joint author with Daniel Rider.
1967 PUBLISHED Wilfred Rusk [8057]
'The Way Ahead'. W. J. Gage, Toronto. About Canadian education.
1968 PUBLISHED Jerrold G. Rusk [8055]
'Measures of Political Attitudes'. Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor Mich. Rusk was a co-author with John P. Robinson, Kendra B. Head, Robert Athanasiou, and Phillip R. Shaver.
1968 PUBLISHED Ralph Leslie Rusk [8050]
'Emerson-Clough Letters'. Archon Books, Hamden, Conn. Was a co-editor with Howard Foster Lowry.
1968 PUBLISHED Howard Long [8053]
'Frank Luther Mott; Scholar, Teacher, Human Being'. Hornstone Press,
1969 PUBLISHED Robert Robertson Rusk [8062]
'The Doctrines of the Great Educators'. Macmillan, Melbourne and St. Martin's Press, New York. This is the 4th edition. A fifth edition was published in 1979 by St. Martin's Press, New York, with James Scotland as
1969 PUBLISHED William Sener Rusk [8058]
'Art In Its Environment'. Vantage Press, New York.
1970 - 1979
1970 DIED Fate Rusk [8025]
1970 DIED David Demarquis Rusk [9022]
1971 PUBLISHED Wilfred Rusk [8057]
'Nobody Can Teach Anyone Anything'. Doubleday Canada, Toronto and Doubleday, Garden City, New York.
1971 PUBLISHED Rogers D. Rusk [8052]
'Atoms, Men, and Stars; a Survey of the Latest Developments of Physical Science and Their Relation to Life'. Books for Libraries Press, Freeport,
1972 PUBLISHED Howard A. Rusk [8017]
'A World to Care For'. Random House, New York. An autobiography.
1972 DIED Katie Ophelie Rusk [8028]
1972 DIED Robert Robertson Rusk [8062]
1972 BORN Reggie Rusk [8038]
Galveston, Texas.
1973 PUBLISHED James Henry Rusk Jr. [5000]
'Land of Plenty - Toward Prosperity with the American Plan for a National Co-Op'. Freeway Press, New York.
1974 PUBLISHED Wilfred Rusk [8057]
'Teaching Teachers Teaching'. Canadian Education Association, Toronto.
1974 PUBLISHED Thomas N. Rusk [8060]
'Treat Your Ego in 4 Hours'. P.H. Wyden, new York. Joint author with Randy Read (Randolph A. Read).
1975 PUBLISHED Ralph Leslie Rusk [8050]
'The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier'. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut. Reprint of the edition published by Columbia University Press, New York. Originally presented as the uathor's thesis, Columbia,
1975 DIED Ella Amy McFarland [9003]
Dallas, Texas. Interment at White Rose Cemetery, Wills Point, Texas.
1978 DIED William Carl Rusk [9004]
St. Paul Hospital, Dallas, Texas.
1978 DIED William Carl Rusk [8034]
1978 PUBLISHED Thomas N. Rusk [8060]
'I Want to Change, But I Don't Know How'. Blue Pacific Books, San Diego, California. Joint author with Randy Read.
1978 DIED Lillian Alexandria Kretsinger [5021]
Roswell, New Mexico. Interment at South Park Cemetery, Roswell, New Mexico.
1979 DRAFT Tom Rusk [8008]
9th round draft pick of the New York Giants football team. Linebacker from
1980 - 1989
1980 PUBLISHED James Henry Rusk Jr. [5000]
'Tug of the Dwarf Star'. Science Fiction. Decade Press, Woodland Hills,
1980 PUBLISHED James Henry Rusk Jr. [5000]
'Space Slaves'. Science Fiction. Decade Press, Woodland Hills, California.
1982 DIED William Henry Rusk [8035]
1982 PUBLISHED Katherine Knight Rusk [8064]
'Renovating the Victorian House'. 101 Productions San Francisco and
1988 MARRIED Gregory Neil Rusk [9012] and Lisa Freeman [9015]
1988 PUBLISHED Thomas N. Rusk [8060] and Natalie Rusk [8061]
'Mind Traps: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life'. Price Stern Sloan, Los Angeles, California. Joint author with Natalie Rusk [8061]. This book was published again in 1996 as 'Get Out of Your Own Way!: Escape from Mind
1988 DIED Roy Albert Wilcox [5020]
Roswell, New Mexico. Interment at South Park Cemetery, Roswell, New Mexico.
1988 PUBLISHED Roger Rusk [8059]
'The Other End of the World: an Alternate Theory Linking Prophecy and History'. Plantation House, Knoxville, Tennessee.
1989 DIED Howard A. Rusk [8017]
1990 - 1999
1990 MARRIED William Todd Rusk [9011]
Mesquite, Texas
1990 DIED James Henry Rusk [5022]
San Marcos, California.
1991 PUBLISHED Thomas N. Rusk [8060]
'Instead of Therapy: Help Yourself Change and Change the Help You're Getting'. Hay House, Carson, California. Other author is D. Patrick Miller.
1991 MARRIED Kenneth Lane Terry [9021] and Julie Annette Rusk [9014]
First Baptist Church, Richardson, Texas.
1992 GRADUATED Scott Franklin Rusk [8039]
Stanford University School of Medicine followed by internship and residency at University of California at Davis Medical Center.
1992 SIGNED Corey Rusk [8012]
A band 'Girls Against Boys'. He was the onwer of Touch and Go Records in
1993 PUBLISHED Tom Rusk [8037]
'The Power of Ethical Persuasion'. Viking, New York.
1993 PUBLISHED Peter Rusk [8009]
'Same-Sex Spousal Benefits and the Evolving Conception of the Family'. Article in the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review / Volume 52, pp.
1993 MARRIED Gregory Neil Rusk [9012] and Vera Michelle Lingo [9017]
1993 PUBLISHED David Rusk [8018]
'Cities Without Suburbs'. The Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
1994 ELECTED Audrey Rusk [8011]
Councillor to Chief, Lake Manitoba Indian Band on the Dog Creek Indian
1994 DIED David Dean Rusk [8048]
Athens, Georgia. Interred at Oconee Hills Cemetery. Died of Congestive
1995 TOP 10 John David Rusk [8019]
From Dahlonega, Georgia. He was in the Top 10 Brain Teaser answerers for the Quantum Cyber Teaser, November/December issue.
1995 BOARD CERTIFIED Scott Franklin Rusk [8039]
Inernal Medicine - Other expertise includes Clinical Pharmacology, molecular biology. Practicing in Bangor, Maine.
1995 PUBLISHED David Rusk [8018]
'Baltimore Unbound'. Abell Foundation of Balitmore in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University.
1996 DRAFTED Reggie Rusk [8038]
7th round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as Corner Back.
1996 PUBLISHED John Rusk [8065]
'On Time and On Budget: a Home Renovation Survival Guide.' Doubleday, New
Family line found at http://mrusk.tripod.com/ft/fttop.htm
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