Sacramento County
Biographies
CHARLES AUGUSTUS RUMAN
Charles
Augustus Ruman, orchardist at
Michigan Bar, was born in Hanover, Germany,
April 3, 1839, his parents
being Frederick Augustus and Louisa (Romer) Ruman. The father was by business a miller; and of the
grandfather, William Ruman, the grandson only
remembers that he was quite old. Charles A. Ruman
arrived in California, November 15, 1853, direct from Hamburg,
the voyage taking seven months, of which however, about six weeks were spent in
repairing the ship at Valparaiso. For
the first fifteen years he was occupied in mining and prospecting, the former
mostly at Michigan Bar, and the latter over a wide range, even as far as Idaho.
For the last twenty years he has been variously engaged. He has raised cattle
more or less since 1867; peddled beer for a time; kept a saloon from 1876 to
1888; a toll-bridge from1877 to 1879, when he sold out to the county for
$1,500; was road overseer and constable from 1877 to 1880; established his home
on about twelve acres at the village end of the bridge; planted a orchard of
about five acres across the river; and rented some land for pasture of his
cattle, of which he keeps forty to fifty head. Mr. Ruman
was married in 1868 to Miss Mary Louisa Yager, born
in Ohio, June 30, 1849, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth
(Silent) Yager. The father was a baker and
confectioner at Delaware, Ohio,
and came to California with his
family in 1853. The mother died in March, 1885, aged sixty-two; the father,
born in February, 1826, is still living in this State. Mr. and Mrs. Ruman are the parents of four sons: Edward Theodore, born
January 25, 1869; Louis Augustus and Peter Francis, twins, October 24, 1875;
Charles Blaine, October 31, 1884.
Transcribed by Karen Pratt.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An
Illustrated History of Sacramento County,
California. Page 525. Lewis Publishing
Company. 1890.
© 2005 Karen Pratt.
Sacramento
County Biographies