Rupp, Isaac Daniel
author, was born July 10, 1803, in Cumberland county, Pa. He was an industrious local historian of Pennsylvania, who, besides writing histories of nearly thirty counties in his state, published also Events in Indian History; History of Religious Denominations in the United States; Early History of Western Pennsylvania; and Thirty Thousand Names of German Emigrants.
He died May 31, 1878, in Philadelphia, Pa.
RUSCHENBERGER, WILLIAM S. W., naval surgeon, author, was born Sept. 4, 1807, in Cumberland county, N. Y. He was a noted naval surgeon and naturalist of Philadelphia, and the author of Elements of Natural History: A Voyage Around the World; Three Weeks in the Pacific; Notes and Commentaries During Voyages to Brazil and China; Lexicon of Natural History Terms; Account of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Philadelphia; and The Brothers Rogers.
He died in 1895.