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CHARLES RUBLE
Charles Ruble, president of the
Standard Paper Box Corporation, located at 3837 Broadway Place, Los Angeles,
has remained at the head of this extensive and successful industrial enterprise
since its inception in 1922. He was born
at Saint Marys, Auglaize County, Ohio, August 27,
1887, his parents being Joseph A. and Lucy (Bright) Ruble, the former also a
native of the Buckeye state. The
grandparents were likewise born in Ohio but the family came originally from
Virginia.
Charles Ruble attended the public
schools in the acquirement of an education and when a lad of twelve years began
providing for his own support by obtaining employment at Saint Marys, Ohio.
Subsequently he spent four years at Saint Marys
in the service of the Bloomer Brothers Paper Box Company of Newark, New York,
and on the expiration of that period went to Cleveland, Ohio. He was next employed as a foreman in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, and when twenty years of age he went to Minneapolis,
Minnesota. It was in 1907 that he came
to Los Angeles, California, with the determination to succeed, for he possessed
both courage and ability and, moreover, had acquired a thorough knowledge of
the paper box business. For a period of
twelve years, from 1910 until 1922, he was associated with the Renshaw, Jones & Sutton Company in charge of the
folding box department. In the latter
year, as above stated, he assisted in the organization of the Standard Paper
Box Company of Los Angeles, of which he has remained president throughout the
intervening period of more than a decade.
The history of the business is printed below.
On the 4th of February,
1908, Mr. Ruble was united in marriage to Miss Nell Corcoran, born in Ashland,
Wisconsin, and they are the parents of two children, namely: Ruth E., born in 1913, who is a student in
the University of California, Los Angeles; and Charles, Jr., born in 1925.
Mr. Ruble is a member of the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club. He served as president of the Los Angeles
Exchange Club in 1929. Fraternally he is
affiliated with the Masons, belonging to Southgate Lodge, No. 320, F. & A.
M., of which he was master in 1926, has attained the thirty-second degree of
the Scottish Rite, and is a member of Al Malaikah
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Mr. Ruble has won
an extensive circle of warm friends in social, fraternal, civic and business
relations and is numbered among Los Angeles’ highly esteemed citizens and
representative manufacturers.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 561-562, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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