Ruffner Family Historic Sites Guide Book: A Sampling of Ruffner Family Historic Sites from Across the United States

The Ruffner Story in America......... begins when a young Peter Ruffner left his home in Switzerland to come to America about 1732. In the Colony of Pennsylvania he settled in Lancaster County among other Swiss and German people who were mainly of the Mennonite faith. There he met Mary Steinman who was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1714. Mary was the daughter of Joseph and Frances Stoneman. Joseph Stoneman was a German Mennonite-a yeoman and a large landholder. When Peter and Mary...