Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Rugg, Emery A. September 22, 1863 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

Page 386, 387

EMERY A. RUGG
	The estimable and representative citizen whose name stands at the head 
of this article is one of the most skillful wool growers of this portion of 
our state, while his executive ability and high order of talent have ben 
manifested in his whole demeanor and excellent achievements during his 
residence in Umatilla county, where he has over wrought with that breadth of 
public spirit that looks to the welfare of the comonwealth and is most 
commendable in every citizen.
	He was born in Wisconsin on September 22, 1863, where he remained 
until he was about eight years of age, when he was taken by his parents to 
Minnesota and from there to Kansas, in which place he received a good public 
schooling.  From here he went to the Willamette valley and commenced the 
battle of life for himself at the age of nineteen, his first enterprise being 
logging and tie making for the O. & C. Railway.  After three years at this 
work he came to Umatilla county and engaged in ranching and sheep raising for 
wages for three years, and then operated a thresher until he was thirty years 
of age.  In the meantime he had entered a partnership with his brothers and 
father in the sheep raising business, which continued with gratifying success 
until 1898, when he took his share of the flocks and continued the business 
alone, locating at the head of Vinson canyon, where he owned eight hundred 
acres of land.  His efforts have been attended with great prosperity, having 
added to his real estate one thousand acres more on Vinson canyon, while he 
owns eight hundred acres on Butter creek.  Finding the increase of 
responsibility too great in managing his immense farms and large bands of 
sheep, now numbering over ten thousand, he took a partner.  His places are 
furnished with the most approved, up-to-date buildings and apparatus for 
handling the wool growing business and everything is attended to with that 
consummate skill and wisdom that accounts for his brilliant success.  His 
sheep are all Merino grades with one-fourth blood Oxford, while the later 
lambs are half-blood Shropshires.  He owns plenty of horses for use and also 
dairy stock that is needed in their business.
  	Mr. Rugg was married in Pendleton, on August 29, 1894, to Miss Mollie 
Madden, a native of Cloud county, Kansas.  Her father died during her infancy 
and her mother is living now in Pendleton.  She was educated in the high 
school of Concordia, Kansas, for teaching, which profession she followed for 
two years, coming to Oregon in 1892 for that purpose.  The prominence that our 
subject has attained in his chosen occupation, together with the wisdom, 
integrity and energy manifested in his life work, have demonstrated him a 
leader, while his excellent social qualities have given him in that line a 
most pleasing distinction. 


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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