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John Ruch

John Ruch is a Tennessee historical marker in Franklin County.

Franklin Co, TN 15 (US 64),west of Belvidere

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Lived here. He came to Franklin Co. in 1872 from Ohio. In 1892, with the aid of J. B. Killebrew, agricultural agent of the N. C. & St. L. RR. and former State Commissioner of Agriculture, he imported from France the first crimson clover seed, thereby founding a new industry and adding materially to the economy of the region.

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