Sacramento County
Biographies
BERTRAM G.
RUGG
BERTRAM G. RUGG.--Prominent among the experienced and capable carpenters of the capital, and wider known, through his fraternal associations, an enviable influence, and always in favor of industrial progress. He was born at Alton, Kansas, on June 25, 1880, and came out to the Golden State about fifteen years ago. His parents were Edward L and Dora (Pierce) Rugg, the latter a lovable woman whose untimely demise in 1903 was mourned by many. The father was a carpenter and a contractor, and came to California in 1909. He is still living, and is esteemed for his ability and his integrity. Under their favoring oversight, Bertram got such educational advantages as were locally available; and what he did not learn in school, he tried to acquire in the wider school of experience.
Mr. Rugg worked at railroading, printing and on newspapers, and found employment in such cities as Denver, Salt Lake, and Reno; and in 1908 he came to Sacramento, after having learned the carpenter trade in Colorado; and for some time he worked as a journeyman. He was with the Ransom Concrete Company for four and one-half years as a carpenter, and for a year, from July, 1922, he was business agent for the District Council of Carpenters. He resides at 4870 Q Street, Sacramento, was a freeholder on the new charter for the county, does his own thinking on political questions, and maintains a live interests in civic affairs.
Mr. Rugg married Miss Bertha C. Shane, of Illinois, on June 8, 1913, and they have two sons, Edward Bertram and Thomas Shane. He belongs to the Maccabees, the Woodmen of the World and the Eagles.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 951.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.