Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Ruberts, Watson M. 1850 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

WATSON M. RUBERTS

    One of Yolo county's prosperous and progressive fruit ranchers is W. M.
Ruberts, who came to California in 1879. He was born in La Salle county, Ill.,
November 27, 1850, and while a small boy accompanied his parents to McDonough
county, in the same state, where he lived until he reached the age of
twenty-eight years. At this period he determined to seek his fortune in the far
west, and with his family journeyed forth, settling in Woodland, Cal., where he
resided about a year. Later he removed to Rumsey, Capay valley, where he
purchased twenty acres, eight of which he planted to grapes, subsequently
setting out on the remainder apricots and pears. He now has only eight acres,
having sold off all but this amount.

    Shortly after locating on this land the Southern Pacific Railroad Company
bought the upper end of the valley and proceeded to improve it, building a
station and subdividing the land into ten and twenty acre tracts which they
planted to fruit. Owing to the superior shipping facilities thus established,
the value of the surrounding land increased immensely and this section became
one of the leading fruit belts of the state. Not the least to profit by the
change, Mr. Ruberts prospered rapidly, and in one season he and a neighbor
shipped an entire car of raisin grapes.

    Mr. Ruberts was married in LaHarpe, Hancock county, Ill., in 1878 to Miss
Hattie Edgington, a native of Des Moines, Iowa. Four children were born to them,
namely: George, a machinist at Willows; C. Arthur, an electrical engineer of
Bakersfield; Charles Irvin, a contractor of Coalinga; and Richard, an electrical
engineer employed in Yolo bounty and residing in Rumsey. Mr. Ruberts is a stanch
Republican, well versed in the political issues of the day, and is a citizen
worthy of the esteem and popularity which he enjoys.
     


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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