San Benito-Butte-Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Rubell, Claudius F. 1853 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

CLAUDIUS F. RUBELL, a native of Greene county, Missouri, was born at
Springfield, December 15, 1853. Three years after his birth his father, W. H.
Rubell, emigrated to California, making the trip overland with ox teams. He was
one of the first settlers of the present city of Chico, California, where, in
1860, he built the first house. General Bidwell's home adjoined Mr. Rubell's,
but was located outside the city limits. Mr. Rubell remained there until 1866,
when he removed to Eugene City, Oregon, and in 1870 to Dallas, Polk county,
Oregon. In 1884 he returned to the "Golden State," and located at Bitter Water
valley, San Benito county, and there died December 1, 1890. He was a native of
Tennessee and married Mrs. Tabitha Johnson, a native of the same State. In his
youth and early manhood he pursued farming, but later learned the trade of a
carpenter, which occupation he followed for several years. Mr. Rubell next
learned the dentist profession and pursued it for the last thirty years of his
life. The mother of our subject died in Oregon, in 1867, leaving three children,
of whom our subject is the oldest.

  Mr. Rubell, the subject of this sketch, received his early education at Eugene
City, Oregon, and Salem, the same State. Later, he had the advantage of
attending the La Creole Academy at Dallas. After finishing his course there he
adopted school teaching as a profession, which he followed in Folk, Lane and
Linn counties, Oregon, for six years. In 1878, however, he came to California
and taught school for two years at Salinas, in Monterey county. In 1888 he
taught in Priest Valley, San Benito county, for three terms and then came to
Bitter Water. Mr. Rubell's ranch comprises 160 acres of land, a portion of the
Domingo Villa ranch, with ample stock range adjoining. In the fall of 1891 Mr.
Rubell embarked in the nursery business, in partnership with Mr. B. F. Gruner.
They have about 30,000 almond, apricot and peach trees.

  Mr. Rubell was married in Salinas, in 1880, to Miss Emma, a daughter of Samuel
Gruver, of Priest Valley. She was born in Stanislaus county, September 2, 1858,
and has borne her husband three children, namely: William H., born August 26,
1881; Samuel G., born November 30, 1884; and Hattie A., born January 16, 1887.
Since 1890 Mr. Rubell has been an active member of the Bitter Water Alliance,
No. 30, which was the first alliance organized in the county and now has
seventy-five members. He is President of the County Alliance and Secretary of
the Sub-Alliance. For four years he was a member of the San Benito County Board
of Education, and for two years served as its president. In 1879 he was the
Constitution candidate for County Superintendent of schools of Monterey county.
As an instructor Mr. Rubell was unexcelled, and the educational interests
suffered when he abandoned that calling for an agricultural one.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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