{"id":944,"date":"2015-09-21T20:49:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T01:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=944"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:40","slug":"john-w-ruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-w-ruth\/","title":{"rendered":"RUTH, John W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JOHN W. RUTH<\/strong>, the clever and enterprising jeweler of Shelbyville, was born February 27, 1839, in Shelbyville, being a son of <strong>George W. Ruth<\/strong>. The father was born in Granville County, N. C., in 1799.\u00a0 A short time before George Washington died, when on his last Southern tour, he passed by the house where <strong>George W. Ruth<\/strong> was born only a short time before.\u00a0 He stopped and lifted the infant in his arms, and then and there it was named<strong> George Washington Ruth<\/strong> in remembrance of the incident and of the great man.\u00a0 The father came to this county in 1822.\u00a0 He married, lived and died here, being a jeweler by occupation.\u00a0 He was a very prominent citizen of the county, and for many years was a magistrate.\u00a0 He was mayor of Shelbyville two terms, and was identified with the public interests all his life.\u00a0 He was a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for many years was a steward.\u00a0 Politically he was a Democrat.\u00a0\u00a0 His death occurred in August, 1858.\u00a0 His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.\u00a0 The mother of <strong>John W.<\/strong> was born in Baltimore County, Md., and came to Shelbyville when quite young.\u00a0 She was born in 1804 and died in 1863.\u00a0\u00a0 The ancestry of <strong>John W<\/strong>. were of Scotch-Irish descent, predominating in Scotch blood.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate subject of this sketch was reared in Shelbyville and learned his father&#8217;s trade, which has been his life time business.\u00a0 He is also joined by his son in the business now, the name of the firm being John W. Ruth &amp; Son.\u00a0 He was elected to the office of mayor of Shelbyville in 1873, and served till 1875.\u00a0 In 1885 he was re-elected to the same office, and is now the incumbent.\u00a0 He was married, in 1865, to<strong> Miss Fannie E. Newton<\/strong>, who bore him three children, viz.: <strong>Albert H., Anne C. and Weakley D<\/strong>.\u00a0 Mr. Ruth and his two oldest children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 He is a Knight Templar Mason and a Knight of Honor.\u00a0 Politically he is a Democrat, but conservative in his views.\u00a0 He is a popular, genial and enterprising citizen of Shelbyville.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 A short time before George Washington died, when on his last Southern tour, he passed by the house where George &#8230; <a title=\"RUTH, John W.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/john-w-ruth\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RUTH, John W.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3122,3123,3124,3121,3120,3125],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-newton-fannie-e","tag-ruth-albert-h","tag-ruth-anne-c","tag-ruth-george-washington","tag-ruth-john-w","tag-ruth-weakley-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}