A. Ruef, attorney, San Francisco, was born here in 1864. Having neither wealth nor influence to back him in his outset in life, he has made his way by his own brain power. His father, a native of France, came to this State in 1862, and for many years conducted a large dry-goods house on Market street; but for a long time now he has been in the real-estate business. He had three daughters and one son.
Mr.
Ruef graduated at the high school in 1879, and at the State University at
Berkeley, in the class of 1883, and then commenced reading law in the office of
B. R. Brook, graduating at Hastings’ Law College in 1886, and was admitted to
practice the same year by the Supreme Court.
He is a good linguist, conversing fluently in French, German, Spanish
and other languages, and is also well read in the literature of those
nations. His practice has been a
general civil one. He is attorney for
several of the most important business houses and many leading citizens; he is
painstaking, and therefore industrious and thorough; he has always been a
decided Republican. In 1888 he led the
independent wing of the Republican convention and carried every measure
proposed by his following. Of course,
he has therefore been earnestly besought to accept of candidacies for
office. He is a member of the N. S. G.
W., Past President of his Parlor, and was a delegate to the Grand Parlor; is
also Secretary of the North Beach Improvement Club, and First Vice-President of
the Federation of Improvement Clubs of this city.
Transcribed by
Donna L. Becker
Source: "The
Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 1, pages 604-605, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
©
2004 Donna L. Becker.