Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

HARRY RUDGE

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            An enterprising and experienced contracting plasterer of Yuba City 
is Harry Rudge, who was born in Des Moines, Iowa, January 22, 1868, the son of 
George William and Mary (Weaver) Rudge, pioneers, both of whom now rest from 
their earthly labors.  Harry Rudge attended the public schools of Iowa, and then 
learned the plasterer�s trade in Des Moines, wishing to have some kind of 
practical equipment for life; and previous to his coming out to California, in 
1919, to make his permanent residence here, he had worked at his trade in a 
number of States.  He had made a trip to California previously, about 1893.  On 
arriving to make his residence here, he located at Yuba City, where he found 
employment for a while as an ordinary journeyman; but for the past two years he 
has been contracting for himself.  He knows what other folks want, and how best 
to do what they are seeking to have done, to their own satisfaction and with a 
fair profit to himself; and he finds it necessary to employ at least three 
assistants, the demand for his services, especially in the finishing of 
dwellings and flats, being steady.  He has built up an enviable reputation for 
artistic finish, dependability and reasonableness in charges, and has become one 
of the industrial representatives of Yuba City.  He takes an active interest in 
the town and county, furthering measures for civic improvement and political 
reform, and working for the general welfare of the locality.
            At Trinidad, Colo., on December 23, 1903, Mr. Rudge was married to 
Miss Mae Griffiths.  She was born at Vancouver, B. C., a daughter of John and 
Sarah (Prickett) Griffiths, and was raised in Montana.  She is the mother of 
three boys, Harold, Clyde and Kenneth.  Mr. Rudge is a member of the Marysville 
Builders� Exchange.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 1318-1319