Dr. Jacob Welty Rugh, Sr. and Rebecca Gilchrist

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Husband Dr. Jacob Welty Rugh, Sr. ¹

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           Born: 5 May 1828 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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       Marriage: 1853 1

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   Other Spouse: Anna M. Reed (      -1917) 2

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Dr. J. W. Rugh.

• Note: This may be the same person as : Jacob Rugh.

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Wife Rebecca Gilchrist ¹

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Children

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1 M Horace A. Rugh ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: Emma Osborn (      -      ) 1

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2 F Margaret L. Rugh ²

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3 F Mary Elizabeth Rugh ²

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         Spouse: W. Frank Mechling (      -Bef 1918) 2

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4 M Carroll Bancroft Rugh, M.D. ¹

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           Born: 9 Feb 1861 - near Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Estella Lowry (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 29 Jun 1892 2

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5 F Clara Edith Rugh ²

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         Spouse: Clifford Bell (      -      ) 2

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6 M James T. Rugh ²

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         Spouse: Eleanor Stephenson (      -      ) 2

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7 M Archibald G. Rugh ²

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         Spouse: Emma McCarntney (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Jacob Welty Rugh, Sr.

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He studied at the local public schools of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and after completing his education at these institutions took up the study of the law. In the meantime he also taught in the schools of his native city. He gave up the law in 1848 and took to the study of medicine instead, attending his first course of lectures in 1849 and 1850 at the Western Reserve Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio. He later attended the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1851 and with his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began the practice of medicine at Pleasant Unity, Pennsylvania, near his old home, and there continued for four years, meeting with a high degree of success. It was in 1855 that he first came to New Alexandria and this community continued his home until the time of his death.
In June, 1862, he took the examination for assistant surgeon in the United States army, and passing this was detailed to the Eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. This body was shortly afterwards ordered to the front and Dr. Rugh saw much active service, following the campaign in Maryland and taking part in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. In the fall and winter of 1862 he participated in the campaign in Virginia and was present at the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. His own health had been failing in the meantime, however, and became so poor that it was necessary for him to resign from active service, and he received his honorable discharge, May 16, 1863.
He at once returned to New Alexandria, where he resumed his interrupted practice and was continually active up to the time of his death.
He was highly respected in the community and enjoyed the reputation of never refusing a case no matter how difficult it might be to reach\emdash and it was often very difficult in that rural region in those times\emdash or no matter how humble and poor the patient might be. He was a man who kept abreast of the progress of his science and was a great student of medical literature generally. He was a man of extraordinary mental ability and won a name for himself as an accurate diagnostician not only in his own community but throughout the entire surrounding district.
Dr. Rugh, Sr., was a man of strong religious feelings and was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church of New Alexandria for over forty years. He was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and never allowed the associations formed by him during the Civil War to lapse.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 150.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 151.

3 Jeff McBride, Thomas Armstrong in Path Valley (Laurel, Md: Web-published, 2012).