OBITUARY from the Commercial Advertiser (New York), 26 December 1837
DIED at Newburgh, on Tuesday last, of typhus fever, DAVID RUGGLES, Esq. in the 55th year of his age. Mr. Ruggles was for many years a leading member of the bar in Orange County, first at Wardsbridge (now called Montgomery,) and subsequently at Newburgh. He studied law with his near relative the late Philo Ruggles, of Poughkeepsie; was admitted to the bar in 1810, and continued in active practice until about three years ago, when he was appointed general law agent, &c. to the New York and Erie Railroad Company.
Few men were more generally known and esteemed in the district in which he so long resided. His pursuits for the past three years extended his acquaintances through the whole of the southern tier of counties -- and in all his multifarious engagements, it is believed he never made an enemy. For some time past he had been engaged in the cultivation of the mulberry; and an essay on that subject appeared in our columns, during the progress of the last annual fair of the American Institute. The citizens of Newburgh will deeply regret his death, as he was much devoted to the improvement of that place. In the year 1818 Mr. Ruggles married [Sarah Colden], a daughter of David Colden, Esq. of Coldenham, in Orange County; and he has left a widow and five children to mourn a devoted husband and an affectionate father.
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Newburgh historian E.M. Ruttenber wrote in 1839 that "The Ruggles house, on the south-east corner of Washington Place, was [in the first decades of the 19th century] regarded as one of the most elegant, and views taken from it found their way into the sketch-books of the times." Probably the first such view was by the English artist, William H. Bartlett (1809-1854), who must have visited Ruggles two years before his death. Bartlett's engraving, "View from Ruggle's House, Newburgh, Hudson River" drawn in 1835 during his first tour of the northeastern states (illustrated upper left), was published in American Scenery in 1840. David Ruggles was an ardent promoter of a railroad linking Newburgh with the Pennsylvania coal fields, and was named as one of the incorporators of the Hudson & Delaware Railroad [unrelated to the more familiar Delaware & Hudson] in 1835. This undoubtedly explains why a double-track railroad line under construction appears in Bartlett's view, although the line itself would not open until 1850 as the Newburgh Branch of the New York & Erie Railroad. When Currier and Ives came to reproduce the scene, they omitted the railroad.
DIED at Newburgh, on Tuesday last, of typhus fever, DAVID RUGGLES, Esq. in the 55th year of his age. Mr. Ruggles was for many years a leading member of the bar in Orange County, first at Wardsbridge (now called Montgomery,) and subsequently at Newburgh. He studied law with his near relative the late Philo Ruggles, of Poughkeepsie; was admitted to the bar in 1810, and continued in active practice until about three years ago, when he was appointed general law agent, &c. to the New York and Erie Railroad Company.
Few men were more generally known and esteemed in the district in which he so long resided. His pursuits for the past three years extended his acquaintances through the whole of the southern tier of counties -- and in all his multifarious engagements, it is believed he never made an enemy. For some time past he had been engaged in the cultivation of the mulberry; and an essay on that subject appeared in our columns, during the progress of the last annual fair of the American Institute. The citizens of Newburgh will deeply regret his death, as he was much devoted to the improvement of that place. In the year 1818 Mr. Ruggles married [Sarah Colden], a daughter of David Colden, Esq. of Coldenham, in Orange County; and he has left a widow and five children to mourn a devoted husband and an affectionate father.
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Newburgh historian E.M. Ruttenber wrote in 1839 that "The Ruggles house, on the south-east corner of Washington Place, was [in the first decades of the 19th century] regarded as one of the most elegant, and views taken from it found their way into the sketch-books of the times." Probably the first such view was by the English artist, William H. Bartlett (1809-1854), who must have visited Ruggles two years before his death. Bartlett's engraving, "View from Ruggle's House, Newburgh, Hudson River" drawn in 1835 during his first tour of the northeastern states (illustrated upper left), was published in American Scenery in 1840. David Ruggles was an ardent promoter of a railroad linking Newburgh with the Pennsylvania coal fields, and was named as one of the incorporators of the Hudson & Delaware Railroad [unrelated to the more familiar Delaware & Hudson] in 1835. This undoubtedly explains why a double-track railroad line under construction appears in Bartlett's view, although the line itself would not open until 1850 as the Newburgh Branch of the New York & Erie Railroad. When Currier and Ives came to reproduce the scene, they omitted the railroad.
OBITUARY from the Commercial Advertiser (New York), 26 December 1837
DIED at Newburgh, on Tuesday last, of typhus fever, DAVID RUGGLES, Esq. in the 55th year of his age. Mr. Ruggles was for many years a leading member of the bar in Orange County, first at Wardsbridge (now called Montgomery,) and subsequently at Newburgh. He studied law with his near relative the late Philo Ruggles, of Poughkeepsie; was admitted to the bar in 1810, and continued in active practice until about three years ago, when he was appointed general law agent, &c. to the New York and Erie Railroad Company.
Few men were more generally known and esteemed in the district in which he so long resided. His pursuits for the past three years extended his acquaintances through the whole of the southern tier of counties -- and in all his multifarious engagements, it is believed he never made an enemy. For some time past he had been engaged in the cultivation of the mulberry; and an essay on that subject appeared in our columns, during the progress of the last annual fair of the American Institute. The citizens of Newburgh will deeply regret his death, as he was much devoted to the improvement of that place. In the year 1818 Mr. Ruggles married [Sarah Colden], a daughter of David Colden, Esq. of Coldenham, in Orange County; and he has left a widow and five children to mourn a devoted husband and an affectionate father.
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Newburgh historian E.M. Ruttenber wrote in 1839 that "The Ruggles house, on the south-east corner of Washington Place, was [in the first decades of the 19th century] regarded as one of the most elegant, and views taken from it found their way into the sketch-books of the times." Probably the first such view was by the English artist, William H. Bartlett (1809-1854), who must have visited Ruggles two years before his death. Bartlett's engraving, "View from Ruggle's House, Newburgh, Hudson River" drawn in 1835 during his first tour of the northeastern states (illustrated upper left), was published in American Scenery in 1840. David Ruggles was an ardent promoter of a railroad linking Newburgh with the Pennsylvania coal fields, and was named as one of the incorporators of the Hudson & Delaware Railroad [unrelated to the more familiar Delaware & Hudson] in 1835. This undoubtedly explains why a double-track railroad line under construction appears in Bartlett's view, although the line itself would not open until 1850 as the Newburgh Branch of the New York & Erie Railroad. When Currier and Ives came to reproduce the scene, they omitted the railroad.
DIED at Newburgh, on Tuesday last, of typhus fever, DAVID RUGGLES, Esq. in the 55th year of his age. Mr. Ruggles was for many years a leading member of the bar in Orange County, first at Wardsbridge (now called Montgomery,) and subsequently at Newburgh. He studied law with his near relative the late Philo Ruggles, of Poughkeepsie; was admitted to the bar in 1810, and continued in active practice until about three years ago, when he was appointed general law agent, &c. to the New York and Erie Railroad Company.
Few men were more generally known and esteemed in the district in which he so long resided. His pursuits for the past three years extended his acquaintances through the whole of the southern tier of counties -- and in all his multifarious engagements, it is believed he never made an enemy. For some time past he had been engaged in the cultivation of the mulberry; and an essay on that subject appeared in our columns, during the progress of the last annual fair of the American Institute. The citizens of Newburgh will deeply regret his death, as he was much devoted to the improvement of that place. In the year 1818 Mr. Ruggles married [Sarah Colden], a daughter of David Colden, Esq. of Coldenham, in Orange County; and he has left a widow and five children to mourn a devoted husband and an affectionate father.
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Newburgh historian E.M. Ruttenber wrote in 1839 that "The Ruggles house, on the south-east corner of Washington Place, was [in the first decades of the 19th century] regarded as one of the most elegant, and views taken from it found their way into the sketch-books of the times." Probably the first such view was by the English artist, William H. Bartlett (1809-1854), who must have visited Ruggles two years before his death. Bartlett's engraving, "View from Ruggle's House, Newburgh, Hudson River" drawn in 1835 during his first tour of the northeastern states (illustrated upper left), was published in American Scenery in 1840. David Ruggles was an ardent promoter of a railroad linking Newburgh with the Pennsylvania coal fields, and was named as one of the incorporators of the Hudson & Delaware Railroad [unrelated to the more familiar Delaware & Hudson] in 1835. This undoubtedly explains why a double-track railroad line under construction appears in Bartlett's view, although the line itself would not open until 1850 as the Newburgh Branch of the New York & Erie Railroad. When Currier and Ives came to reproduce the scene, they omitted the railroad.
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In Memory of
DAVID RUGGLES
who died
Dec, 19, 1837
Aged
54 years 9 months
& 15 days
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