Madera County Biographies

W. C. RING

Transcribed by Craig A Hahn

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

W. C. RING is a native of Missouri, and was born in St. Louis in 1857. His 
father, W. C. Ring, was a professional book-keeper, who brought his family to 
San Francisco in 1860, but he survived the change of climate only two years. 
Mrs. Ring then moved her family of three children to Placerville, El Dorado 
County, where our subject received a grammar-school education. He left school at 
the age of seventeen years, and then took up mercantile life as clerk in a store 
at Placerville, and later he engaged in mining, but as neither occupation was 
congenial or profitable, he took up teaching, which he followed very 
successfully in Northern California and Nevada for six years. Upon coming to 
Madera in 1884 he was appointed superintendent of the Madera Grammar School, 
which position he filled for three years, giving eminent satisfaction to the 
towns-people. In the spring of 1887 he gave up teaching and was engaged as 
book-keeper by the Madera Flume and Trading Company, where he is still employed. 
Mr. Ring was married in San Francisco in 1890 to Miss Laura A. Zuiver, a native 
of California.
     He is a member of Madera Lodge, No. 280, F. & A. M., Trigo Chapter, No. 69, 
R. A. M., Visalia Commandery, No. 86,  K. T.; Sincerity Chapter, No. 53, O. E. 
S.; also a member of Morning Star Lodge, No. 20, I. O. O. F.; Zeta Encampment, 
No. 5, I. O. O. F., and Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 159, I. O. O. F.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, 
California Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892, p. 767