Samuel H. Rudolph (1866-1959) was born in Washington County, Iowa, and
died in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He lived with his family in Dutch Creek, Iowa, until the
early 1880s, when he moved to Elliott, Iowa. He worked as a farm laborer. In 1897 he
married Elizabeth A. Rudolph (b. Davis) in Elliott. He graduated from State University
of Iowa Law School and was admitted to the practice of law in 1897. They moved to
Atlantic, Iowa, around 1900 and remained there for the rest of their lives. At the time
of his passing at age 93, he was known as one of Iowa's oldest practicing attorneys,
having won honors for his length of service from the Cass County Bar Association in 1956
and the Iowa State Bar Association in 1957. In 1887 both Rudolph and his father, Phillip
Rudolph, wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to order
Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures and several of her other published works. Rudolph passed
away after a short stay in a hospital in Council Bluffs.
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