Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Rubens, Louis M 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Louis M. Rubens, who is conducting the largest coal and transfer business in 
Joliet, was born in Chicago June 6, 1877. His parents, Nathan James and Amelia 
(Goldman) Rubens, were natives of Kensington, England, and came to the United 
States in 1865, settling in Chicago, where they still reside. The father, who 
was a civil engineer, did a great deal of work in the navy department for the 
government, but is now retired. In the family were twelve children, all of 
whom are living: George B., an electrical engineer at Indianapolis, Indiana; 
Morris M., a lieutenant and the youngest officer in the United States navy at 
the present time; Louis M., of this review; Julius J., who is attending school 
in Chicago; Harry, an electrical engineer of Chicago; Claude, a civil 
engineer; and six daughters, five of whom are married. Louis M. Rubens was 
educated in the city schools of Chicago and for eleven years after entering 
business life was connected with the mercantile house of Willoughby, Hill & 
Co., of that city. In 1899 he came to Joliet and has since engaged in his 
present line of business, having now the largest coal and transfer business in 
the city. He uses about fifteen wagons and was the first person in Joliet to 
introduce the covered moving van. He has wagons with a capacity of fifty 
thousand pounds—as much as any ordinary railroad car. His average annual 
output of coal amounts to about sixty thousand tons and he is interested in 
coal mines at Coal City, Illinois, and also at Braceville, this state. Mr. 
Rubens was married on the 7th of June, 1899, to Miss Rebecca J. Goldberg of 
Joliet, and they have two children, Lillian M. and Charlotte G. Mr. Rubens is 
a member of the lodge and chapter of Masonry and is also identified with the 
Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Eagles, the Modern Woodmen and the Red Men. 
He is recognized as one of the active representatives of business life in 
Joliet and has been very successful, making steady advancement since he came 
to the city until he is accounted a leading merchant here and the consensus of 
public opinion regarding his business history is altogether favorable. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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