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HENRY L. S. RUTH, a well known business man of Lansdale, is a son of John S. Ruth, a retired farmer now living in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. He was born in New Britain township, in that county, October 24, 1875. He removed with his parents to Lansdale at an early age, and was educated in the public schools of that borough. On leaving school he decided to turn his attention to mercantile pursuits, having a natural aptitude for such an occupation, and entered a store as clerk, and later went to Fox Chase, in Philadelphia county, where he purchased a store and conducted it with much success for a period of five years. At the end of that time Mr. Ruth returned to Lansdale, where he has lived recently more of a retired life, looking after his own financial and real estate interests of which he has considerable in that borough and elsewhere. In politics Mr. Ruth is an active Republican, doing whatever is possible in the promotion of its interests. He is a director of the Lansdale Trust Company, besides having my other investments in which he is interested. He is a member of the Reformed church of Lansdale, and is connected with its consistory.

Mr. Ruth married, in 1897, Miss Caroline Kindig, daughter of H. K. Kindig, the well known wholesale grocer of Philadelphia. The couple have one child, Henry R. Swartley Ruth. The Ruths are an old Bucks county family whose Ancestor came to America with the tide of German immigration about the middle of the eighteenth century. The family are largely addicted to mechanical pursuits, and have furnished several inventors and machinists who have gained an enviable reputation for their skill and ability.