RUTH, John W.

JOHN W. RUTH, the clever and enterprising jeweler of Shelbyville, was born February 27, 1839, in Shelbyville, being a son of George W. Ruth. The father was born in Granville County, N. C., in 1799.  A short time before George Washington died, when on his last Southern tour, he passed by the house where George … Read more

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