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Herman H. Rulle, dealer in hardware, stoves and agricultural implements, was born near Berlin, Germany, July 19, 1849, and immigrated to the United States in 1851, settling in Hermann, Gasconade Co., Mo. His father, Hermann Rulle, who is now deceased, was married to Wilhelmina Flake. She is yet residing in Hermann, Mo., and is sixty-six years old. The immediate subject of this sketch left home at the age of fourteen and went to St. Louis, where he learned the tinner’s trade, at which he still works more or less. He began his present business in Hermann, in December, 1878, and carries a full line of goods pertaining to his kind of business. In 1872 he was united in the bonds of matrimony to Annie W. Strickland, daughter of John Strickland, of St. Louis. To their union were born seven children: Rosa, Edward, William, Alwin, Rudolph, Tillie and Frank. Mr. Rulle is a member of the Masonic fraternity and I. O. O. F. He also belongs to the Lutheran Church.