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Charles Hamlin Ruth

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Charles Hamlin Ruth

Birth
Osborne, Osborne County, Kansas, USA
Death
16 May 1951 (aged 79)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Acacia Lawn, Gate 20, Section 5, Lot 966, Grave 1
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Charles was born just under six months after his parents joined the Pennsylvania Colony and founded the city of Osborne, Kansas. Farmer and then blacksmith; opened machine shop in 1892 in Downs, Kansas. In 1903 moved to Brawley, California and invented the Ruth Dredger for cleaning and building new ditches; invention was credited with making Imperial County the greatest continuously irrigated region in the United States. Became very wealthy over the years.
Charles was born just under six months after his parents joined the Pennsylvania Colony and founded the city of Osborne, Kansas. Farmer and then blacksmith; opened machine shop in 1892 in Downs, Kansas. In 1903 moved to Brawley, California and invented the Ruth Dredger for cleaning and building new ditches; invention was credited with making Imperial County the greatest continuously irrigated region in the United States. Became very wealthy over the years.

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