Carbon County UT Archives Biographies.....Ruff, George 1850 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

GEORGE RUFF.

    Since taking up his abode at Scofield in 1900, George Ruff has been
identified with the Utah Coal Company as a blacksmith. He was born in England,
January 18, 1850, his parents being James and Eliza (Medlock) Ruff. The father
died in England and the mother afterward came to Utah in 1873.

    In his native land George Ruff was reared and educated and it was some years
after his first marriage that he came to the new world, crossing the Atlantic
with his wife in 1879. They arrived in Utah on the 5th of October, settling at
Coalville, and in 1900 removed to Scofield. Mr. Ruff had acquired his education
in the public schools of England and afterward had learned blacksmithing. He
worked along that line for the coal mines at Coalville and on removing to
Scofield became identified with blacksmithing in the interests of the Utah Coal
Company, which he has thus represented to the present time.

    In England, in 1871, Mr. Ruff was married to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Grayson,
who was born April 25, 1851, and who passed away in Scofield, December 27, 1908.
On the 4th of August, 1909, Mr. Ruff wedded Mary (Hood) Johnson. The mother of
his second wife came to Utah in 1876 as a widow. Mrs. Ruff was born April 27,
1853, and by her former marriage had two daughters and a son, Agnes, Frances and
Andrew. The children of Mr. Ruff are as follows. Mary Emma, born in England,
September 2, 1871, married Joseph Jones and has one child. George Henry, born in
England, October 10, 1876, wedded Nettie Calderwood and has three children. John
James, born in England in 1878, married Alice Dunster and has four children.
William Edward; born in Scofield, Utah, May 24, 1881, married Margaret Morgan
and has five children. Joseph H., born in Scofield, October 1, 1883, married Ida
Bowley, who passed away leaving two children. Wilford, born in Scofield, April
15, 1886, married Elizabeth Blackham, by whom he had two children, and after the
death of his first wife he wedded Viola Whitaker and they have one child.

    Mr. Ruff has always adhered to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and for two years was president of the Elders Quorum at
Coalville. In 1898 he was sent on a mission to England, where he labored for two
years. On the 19th of July, 1902, he was ordained a bishop of Scofield ward and
continues to act in that capacity to the present time. He has likewise been
prominent in public affairs of the community, serving for two terms on the town
board of Scofield and filling out an unexpired term as president of the board.
In 1917 he was elected president of the board, or mayor of the city, and he is
also a member of the school board of Carbon county. His first term in that
position covered two years and he is now filling a four-year term. While at
Coalville he occupied the position of justice of the peace. His public record is
an unassailable one and his devotion to the general welfare has been manifest in
many tangible ways.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
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VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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