Susan Grace (Harding) Rummler (1874 - 1925)

Born 10 Dec 1874 in Chicago, Illinois

Ancestors

Wife of William Richard Rummler — married 3 Oct 1905 (to 1925) in Chicago, Illinois

Descendants

Died 3 Jan 1925 at age 50 in Chicago, Illinois

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Biography

Miss Harding was teaching German and French in Clinton, Iowa when she met and later married William R. RummIer. The wedding was consumated on October 3, 1905 and the minister of Chicago's First Unitarian Church officiated. Susan Grace was a native of Chicago and daughter of George Franklin Harding (1830-1920), and Adelaide Matthews Harding. Adelaide was descended from an English family that settled in Durham, New Hampshire in 1638. Susan's father, George F. Harding was a lawyer. Her grandfather was General Abner Clark Harding of East Hampton, Connecticut (Feb, 10, 1807 - July 19, 1974). The Harding line can be traced back to Joseph Harding who came from England to Braintree and Plymouth, Massachusetts (1625-1633). She began her education at Mrs. Loring's school in Chicago, continued at Paris Seminary in France, graduating in the class of 1893 from South Division High School, Chicago, and received the Ph. B. degree from the University of Chicago in 1898. She also studied language and music in Florence, Italy. Mrs. RummIer was a woman of considerable conviction as shown by being a Unitarian, a Progressive Republican" and at the University of Chicago a member of the Esoteric Society. She had ideas about nutrition that were advanced for the day and was the author of a book, "Natural Food and Care for Child and Mother". Susan RummIer was listed in "Women's Who~ Who inAmerica".

To this couple four children were born:

Joseph Manig,

Adalaide Matthews,

Madelene Harding, and

Robert Stevens.

In 1908 a son, Matthew Sittig, was born but lived only five years.

A daughter, Beatrice, was still-born in 1910.

The family lived in several different locations around Chicago as the birth places of the children reveal, but the longtime residence was at 9247 South Winchester Avenue in Chicago's Beverley Hills section from 1921 on. Here Susan Grace died in 1925 leaving W.R. with four children.

Sources

• THE RUMMLER STORY: an account of the descendents of Joseph Jacob RummIer and his wife, Jenny Rosalia Sittig to the fifth generation, BY John Stevenson Atwood. 620 Plymouth Road #4, Claremont, California 91711, 1990.

• "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3C2-KK9 : 27 December 2014), Susan Harding Rummler, 03 Jan 1925; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,877,617.