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John Frederick Rule (1874-1962), was born in Vinton, Iowa, but was raised primarily in Des Moines, Iowa. His parents were father was [[Alexander Hume Rule]] & . He went to college in Des Moines and became an electrical engineer, but in 1899 he moved to Washington, DC, where he worked as an Examiner in the Patent Office of the Department of the Interior of the federal government for at least five years (1901-1905). He then moved to New York City where he worked as a lawyer for an elevator company for some time. Around 1916, he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he worked as a patent attorney (a specialist in patent law) for Corning Incorporated, a glass manufacturing company, for the rest of his working life. The Corning company has been in business since 1851 and is still a major corporation (see corning.com).
He then moved to New York City where he worked as a lawyer for an elevator company for some time. Around 1916, he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he worked as a patent attorney (a specialist in patent law) for Corning Incorporated, a glass manufacturing company, for the rest of his working life. The Corning company has been in business since 1851 and is still a major corporation (see corning.com). In 1906, John married Sarah "Sadie" Allen (1884-1920) of New Castle, Delaware, who was known as “Sadie,” but I don’t know how they met. They had three sons:
* Ralph Gordon Rule (1907-1984)
Sadie died 16 Nov 1920, seventeen days before her 36th birthday. She was pregnant with twin girls at the time of her
death and wasn’t able to survive the pregnancy due to congestive heart failure. The twins also died. Her boys were 13, 10 and 9 at that time and her husband married his second wife, Harriet May Johnston (1885-1974), one year later on 21 Nov 1921.
Harriet’s father, William Franklin Johnston (1851- 1933), was a farmer in Cooper County, Missouri. He was twice elected as a Democrat to represent Cooper County in the Missouri House of Representatives in Jefferson City, Missouri, where he served for four years (1897-1900). He also served for twelve years as a Justice of the Peace of Prairie Home Township in his native county. In 1910, he moved to Warrensburg, Missouri, where he served for some time as a Police Judge and Justice of the Peace. Harriet’s sister Caroline (“Carrie”) served as a missionary in China from 1914 to 1942 along with her husband, Charles Eames.