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Name: RUCH, Andrew Henry
Birth Date: 2 Feb 1899 Jersey City, New Jersey
Nationality: USA
First Date: 1922
Profession: Gospel Missionary Society missionary (Dutch Reformed Church)
Area: Ruiru, Kiambu
Married: Martha Wolfe b. 24 Mar 1899 Kenton, Ohio, nurse
Children: Emma Louise (1926)
Book Reference: Red 25, Hut
General Information:
Hut has Andrew Ruck
Ancestry Passenger list 30 Dec 1922 London-Mombasa
US census 1930 and 1940 living in Philadelphia
See Evanson N. Wamagatta, The Presbyterian Church of East Africa, 2009, for establishment of mission. Gospel Miss. Society acquired 5 missionary nurses: Mary Gamertsfelder (1906-1937), Margaret Gough (1923-1939), Bessie Lovell (1923-1935), Martha Ruch (1923-1925) and Elnora Boda (1935-1945).