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name
Richard Everett Ellingwood
aka
[Cudge, Richard E. Ellingwood Sr.]
sex
male
access
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summary
"Cudge" Ellingwood, who founded the Culligan Soft Water Service at Spokane in 1940 and handed it to his son Dick. Born at Evanston, Illinois, son of Finley Ellingwood, he met Ruth Short at Fort George Wright after being drafted in 1918, and was with the University of Wisconsin Extension Division at Madison from 1922 to 1937. He wrote his memoir in 1968-70 and spent his last ten years in Miami Shores, Florida.
born
date
14 Feb 1895
place
2209 Central Street, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970, newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood]
note
His birth was never registered; a Cook County certificate was issued late on his sister Elma's statement.
died
date
28 Feb 1985
place
Miami Shores, Florida
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[index-florida-death-ellingwood-1985, newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood]
note
Dade County, Florida, aged 90 (Florida Death Index). The obituary of Wednesday 6 March 1985 says he "died Thursday".
residences
date
1900
place
Evanston Ward 6, Cook County, Illinois
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1900-evanston-ellingwood]
note
In his parents' household, as "R. Everett", 5.
date
1910
place
Evanston Ward 6, Cook County, Illinois
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1910-evanston-ellingwood]
note
In his parents' household, as "Richard E.", 15.
date
1920
place
Evanston Ward 6, Cook County, Illinois
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1920-evanston-ellingwood]
note
In his parents' household, as "Everett R.", 24, single, in business efficiency.
date
1921
place
Evanston, Cook County, Illinois
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921]
note
An auditor, of Evanston, at his marriage.
date
1922
place
Madison, Wisconsin
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
With the University of Wisconsin Extension Division, 1922-1937.
date
1923
place
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
A year at Germantown.
date
1930
place
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1930-madison-ellingwood]
note
Head of household, dean of men. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
date
late Nov 1937
place
Spokane, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Moved to Spokane, where he founded the Culligan Soft Water Service in 1940.
events
what
Landed at Bordeaux
date
14 May 1917
place
Bordeaux, France
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
One of seventeen Northwestern seniors sent overseas as YMCA secretaries to serve the troops.
what
Air raid at Sandwich
date
25 Sep 1917
place
Sandwich, Kent, England
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
With the YMCA in England; he copied his diary for the night of the raid into the memoir.
what
Army, Fort George Wright
date
1918
place
Fort George Wright, Spokane, Washington
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Drafted; where he met Ruth Short.
what
Commissioned, Camp Pike
date
1918
place
Camp Pike, Arkansas
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
what
Proposed at Twin Lakes
date
1920
place
Twin Lakes, Idaho
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
On a summer holiday he proposed to Ruth Short in a meadow behind the cabin.
what
Y Camp at Priest Lake
date
1952
place
Priest Lake, Idaho
note
The Spokane YMCA's boys' camp, 1952-54, was named "'Y' Camp 'Cudge' Ellingwood".
what
Canoe trip to Zion
date
Sep 1915
place
Zion, Illinois
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Cudge's memoir, pp. B9-B11: up Lake Michigan by canoe with Sid Bennett, rolled ashore by a wave at Zion, where the hotel boy knelt to pray on the stairs when the village bell rang; on to Milwaukee, then home on foot and by lift.
what
Sailed on L'Espagne
date
5 May 1917
place
New York, New York
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Cudge's memoir, p. C2: sailed for Bordeaux on the French liner L'Espagne with the Northwestern seniors going out as YMCA secretaries (p. C1 says 3 May); seasick for three days.
what
Honeymoon at Priest Lake
date
Aug 1921
place
Priest Lake, Idaho
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Cudge's memoir, pp. 85-87: two weeks camping with Ruth at Squaw Bay after the wedding at Spokane, fishing for cutthroat and climbing Lookout Mountain.
what
YMCA club, Southampton
date
Oct 1917
place
Southampton, England
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
From October 1917 he ran the American YMCA's officers' club by the Upper Bar Gate, where the Pilgrims had held their last prayer meeting before the Mayflower sailed.
what
Sailed home, Adriatic
date
26 Feb 1918
place
Liverpool, England
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Home from the YMCA's war work on the American liner Adriatic.
what
Army, Jefferson Barracks
date
May 1918
place
Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Where the army took him in, at St. Louis, before Fort George Wright.
what
Little St. Germain camp
date
c. 1927
place
Little Saint Germain Lake, Wisconsin
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
The family's summer camp on the lake in the Wisconsin north woods, where they went back summer after summer.
what
Consulting at Red House
date
1937
place
Red House, West Virginia
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, pp. G34-G36: his old dean Chester Snell, building the New Deal's Red House cooperative village near Charleston, asked him to advise on its store; he drove down with Dutch Midland by the Ohio, through Cincinnati and flood-mired Huntington, and charged $150.
what
Visit to Duff Pattullo
date
autumn 1937
place
Victoria, British Columbia
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, p. G37: having left the university, he rode the bus three days and nights to Spokane, then called on Ruth's cousin Duff Pattullo, premier of British Columbia, who gave him good advice and a fine time before he went on down the coast looking for work.
what
Truck repair, Eau Claire
date
Nov 1937
place
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, pp. H1-H3: the pony-ride truck of furniture broke a rod on the third day out; in bitter cold he and Jim found a wrecked pole-setting truck at Eau Claire, cut off its front end and bolted it to theirs, leaving a truck with two cabs.
what
Moving west, Butte
date
Nov 1937
place
Butte, Montana
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Trucking the family's furniture west himself, he searched for Ruth and the children from Butte; they were already safe in Spokane.
what
Took Culligan franchise
date
Jan 1940
place
Northbrook, Illinois
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, p. I4: he and Jeff Short went out to Emmett Culligan's little plant at Northbrook, saw the Wheaton operation and its unopened envelopes of cheques, and took the franchise; he opened in Spokane on 15 Feb 1940.
what
Caught in the flood
date
c. 1927
place
Brillion, Wisconsin
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Coming home from a job at Manitowoc, his train stopped at Brillion before the flooded road; he spent the night in a stranger's car and crossed the washout on a telephone repair truck.
what
Going-to-the-Sun Road
date
May 1950
place
Glacier National Park, Montana
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
He drove his sister Elma through Glacier Park, the snow in places higher than the car.
what
Rotary at Camp Cowles
date
Jul 1948
place
Diamond Lake, Washington
note
On a Rotary trip to Camp Cowles, the Scout camp on Diamond Lake north of Spokane, he drove a stake for the horseshoe game (back of a family photograph).
father
id
finley-ellingwood-1852
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
mother
id
jennie-elliott-1857
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
spouses
id
ruth-short-d1974
married
date
26 Jul 1921
place
901 W. 13th Avenue, Spokane, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970, newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood, marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921]
note
Married before the fireplace at the Shorts' home (the memoir). The certificate gives the bride's address as 901 W. 13th Avenue; the date of the ceremony is left blank on it, and it was filed on 19 Aug 1921.
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970, newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood, marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921]
name
Ruth Hardt
married
date
aft. 1974
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood]
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood]

"Cudge", from "Cudgie-winkle-Tootem" in a Sunday School cantata when he was a baby. Northwestern University (business, 1918; baseball captain 1917). With the YMCA in England in 1917; drafted in 1918, at Fort George Wright, Spokane, where he met Ruth Short, and commissioned at Camp Pike, Arkansas. University of Wisconsin Extension Division, Madison, 1922-1937 (M.S. 1929), with a year at Germantown, Philadelphia, in 1923. Moved to Spokane in November 1937; founded the Culligan Soft Water Service there on 15 February 1940 with his brother-in-law Jeff Short, and handed it to his son Dick in 1960, going part-time himself (the memoir; his 1985 obituary dates the change to 1964, when he was named chairman of the board). President of Spokane Rotary (1950-51) and of the Spokane YMCA, which in 1952-54 ran a boys' camp at Priest Lake, "'Y' Camp 'Cudge' Ellingwood". Wrote his memoir, Cudge, for his family in 1968-70 (see Books). Lived his last ten years in Miami Shores, Florida.

Children: Ruth (15 Apr 1923), Joyce (21 Jun 1925), Mary Jane (29 Sep 1926), Janet (14 May 1928) and Richard Everett Jr. "Dick" (15 Nov 1929).

In the censuses: in 1920 at home in Evanston, single (record); in 1930 at Madison, dean of men, with Ruth and the five children (record).

  1. ---
  2. name: Richard Everett Ellingwood
  3. aka: [Cudge, Richard E. Ellingwood Sr.]
  4. sex: male
  5. access: public
  6. summary: >-
  7. "Cudge" Ellingwood, who founded the Culligan Soft Water Service at Spokane in 1940 and handed it
  8. to his son Dick. Born at Evanston, Illinois, son of Finley Ellingwood, he met Ruth Short at Fort
  9. George Wright after being drafted in 1918, and was with the University of Wisconsin Extension
  10. Division at Madison from 1922 to 1937. He wrote his memoir in 1968-70 and spent his last ten
  11. years in Miami Shores, Florida.
  12. born:
  13. date: 14 Feb 1895
  14. place: 2209 Central Street, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois
  15. basis: documented
  16. confidence: proven
  17. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970, newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood]
  18. note: His birth was never registered; a Cook County certificate was issued late on his sister Elma's statement.
  19. died:
  20. date: 28 Feb 1985
  21. place: Miami Shores, Florida
  22. basis: documented
  23. confidence: proven
  24. sources: [index-florida-death-ellingwood-1985, newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood]
  25. note: Dade County, Florida, aged 90 (Florida Death Index). The obituary of Wednesday 6 March 1985 says he "died Thursday".
  26. residences:
  27. - date: "1900"
  28. place: Evanston Ward 6, Cook County, Illinois
  29. basis: documented
  30. confidence: proven
  31. sources: [census-1900-evanston-ellingwood]
  32. note: In his parents' household, as "R. Everett", 5.
  33. - date: "1910"
  34. place: Evanston Ward 6, Cook County, Illinois
  35. basis: documented
  36. confidence: proven
  37. sources: [census-1910-evanston-ellingwood]
  38. note: In his parents' household, as "Richard E.", 15.
  39. - date: "1920"
  40. place: Evanston Ward 6, Cook County, Illinois
  41. basis: documented
  42. confidence: proven
  43. sources: [census-1920-evanston-ellingwood]
  44. note: In his parents' household, as "Everett R.", 24, single, in business efficiency.
  45. - date: "1921"
  46. place: Evanston, Cook County, Illinois
  47. basis: documented
  48. confidence: proven
  49. sources: [marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921]
  50. note: An auditor, of Evanston, at his marriage.
  51. - date: "1922"
  52. place: Madison, Wisconsin
  53. basis: documented
  54. confidence: probable
  55. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  56. note: With the University of Wisconsin Extension Division, 1922-1937.
  57. - date: "1923"
  58. place: Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  59. basis: documented
  60. confidence: probable
  61. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  62. note: A year at Germantown.
  63. - date: "1930"
  64. place: Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
  65. basis: documented
  66. confidence: probable
  67. sources: [census-1930-madison-ellingwood]
  68. note: Head of household, dean of men. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  69. - date: "late Nov 1937"
  70. place: Spokane, Washington
  71. basis: documented
  72. confidence: probable
  73. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  74. note: Moved to Spokane, where he founded the Culligan Soft Water Service in 1940.
  75. events:
  76. - what: Landed at Bordeaux
  77. date: "14 May 1917"
  78. place: Bordeaux, France
  79. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  80. note: "One of seventeen Northwestern seniors sent overseas as YMCA secretaries to serve the troops."
  81. - what: Air raid at Sandwich
  82. date: "25 Sep 1917"
  83. place: Sandwich, Kent, England
  84. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  85. note: "With the YMCA in England; he copied his diary for the night of the raid into the memoir."
  86. - what: Army, Fort George Wright
  87. date: "1918"
  88. place: Fort George Wright, Spokane, Washington
  89. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  90. note: "Drafted; where he met Ruth Short."
  91. - what: Commissioned, Camp Pike
  92. date: "1918"
  93. place: Camp Pike, Arkansas
  94. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  95. - what: Proposed at Twin Lakes
  96. date: "1920"
  97. place: Twin Lakes, Idaho
  98. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  99. note: "On a summer holiday he proposed to Ruth Short in a meadow behind the cabin."
  100. - what: Y Camp at Priest Lake
  101. date: "1952"
  102. place: Priest Lake, Idaho
  103. note: "The Spokane YMCA's boys' camp, 1952-54, was named \"'Y' Camp 'Cudge' Ellingwood\"."
  104. - what: Canoe trip to Zion
  105. date: "Sep 1915"
  106. place: Zion, Illinois
  107. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  108. note: "Cudge's memoir, pp. B9-B11: up Lake Michigan by canoe with Sid Bennett, rolled ashore by a wave at Zion, where the hotel boy knelt to pray on the stairs when the village bell rang; on to Milwaukee, then home on foot and by lift."
  109. - what: Sailed on L'Espagne
  110. date: "5 May 1917"
  111. place: New York, New York
  112. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  113. note: "Cudge's memoir, p. C2: sailed for Bordeaux on the French liner L'Espagne with the Northwestern seniors going out as YMCA secretaries (p. C1 says 3 May); seasick for three days."
  114. - what: Honeymoon at Priest Lake
  115. date: "Aug 1921"
  116. place: Priest Lake, Idaho
  117. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  118. note: "Cudge's memoir, pp. 85-87: two weeks camping with Ruth at Squaw Bay after the wedding at Spokane, fishing for cutthroat and climbing Lookout Mountain."
  119. - what: YMCA club, Southampton
  120. date: "Oct 1917"
  121. place: Southampton, England
  122. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  123. note: "From October 1917 he ran the American YMCA's officers' club by the Upper Bar Gate, where the Pilgrims had held their last prayer meeting before the Mayflower sailed."
  124. - what: Sailed home, Adriatic
  125. date: "26 Feb 1918"
  126. place: Liverpool, England
  127. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  128. note: "Home from the YMCA's war work on the American liner Adriatic."
  129. - what: Army, Jefferson Barracks
  130. date: "May 1918"
  131. place: Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
  132. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  133. note: "Where the army took him in, at St. Louis, before Fort George Wright."
  134. - what: Little St. Germain camp
  135. date: "c. 1927"
  136. place: Little Saint Germain Lake, Wisconsin
  137. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  138. note: "The family's summer camp on the lake in the Wisconsin north woods, where they went back summer after summer."
  139. - what: Consulting at Red House
  140. date: "1937"
  141. place: Red House, West Virginia
  142. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  143. note: "Memoir, pp. G34-G36: his old dean Chester Snell, building the New Deal's Red House cooperative village near Charleston, asked him to advise on its store; he drove down with Dutch Midland by the Ohio, through Cincinnati and flood-mired Huntington, and charged $150."
  144. - what: Visit to Duff Pattullo
  145. date: "autumn 1937"
  146. place: Victoria, British Columbia
  147. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  148. note: "Memoir, p. G37: having left the university, he rode the bus three days and nights to Spokane, then called on Ruth's cousin Duff Pattullo, premier of British Columbia, who gave him good advice and a fine time before he went on down the coast looking for work."
  149. - what: Truck repair, Eau Claire
  150. date: "Nov 1937"
  151. place: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
  152. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  153. note: "Memoir, pp. H1-H3: the pony-ride truck of furniture broke a rod on the third day out; in bitter cold he and Jim found a wrecked pole-setting truck at Eau Claire, cut off its front end and bolted it to theirs, leaving a truck with two cabs."
  154. - what: Moving west, Butte
  155. date: "Nov 1937"
  156. place: Butte, Montana
  157. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  158. note: "Trucking the family's furniture west himself, he searched for Ruth and the children from Butte; they were already safe in Spokane."
  159. - what: Took Culligan franchise
  160. date: "Jan 1940"
  161. place: Northbrook, Illinois
  162. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  163. note: "Memoir, p. I4: he and Jeff Short went out to Emmett Culligan's little plant at Northbrook, saw the Wheaton operation and its unopened envelopes of cheques, and took the franchise; he opened in Spokane on 15 Feb 1940."
  164. - what: Caught in the flood
  165. date: "c. 1927"
  166. place: Brillion, Wisconsin
  167. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  168. note: "Coming home from a job at Manitowoc, his train stopped at Brillion before the flooded road; he spent the night in a stranger's car and crossed the washout on a telephone repair truck."
  169. - what: Going-to-the-Sun Road
  170. date: "May 1950"
  171. place: Glacier National Park, Montana
  172. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  173. note: "He drove his sister Elma through Glacier Park, the snow in places higher than the car."
  174. - what: Rotary at Camp Cowles
  175. date: "Jul 1948"
  176. place: Diamond Lake, Washington
  177. note: "On a Rotary trip to Camp Cowles, the Scout camp on Diamond Lake north of Spokane, he drove a stake for the horseshoe game (back of a family photograph)."
  178. father:
  179. id: finley-ellingwood-1852
  180. basis: documented
  181. confidence: proven
  182. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  183. mother:
  184. id: jennie-elliott-1857
  185. basis: documented
  186. confidence: proven
  187. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  188. spouses:
  189. - id: ruth-short-d1974
  190. married:
  191. date: 26 Jul 1921
  192. place: 901 W. 13th Avenue, Spokane, Washington
  193. basis: documented
  194. confidence: probable
  195. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970, newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood, marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921]
  196. note: Married before the fireplace at the Shorts' home (the memoir). The certificate gives the bride's address as 901 W. 13th Avenue; the date of the ceremony is left blank on it, and it was filed on 19 Aug 1921.
  197. basis: documented
  198. confidence: proven
  199. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970, newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood, marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921]
  200. - name: Ruth Hardt
  201. married:
  202. date: aft. 1974
  203. basis: documented
  204. confidence: probable
  205. sources: [newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood]
  206. basis: documented
  207. confidence: probable
  208. sources: [newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood]
  209. ---
  211. "Cudge", from "Cudgie-winkle-Tootem" in a Sunday School cantata when he was a baby.
  212. Northwestern University (business, 1918; baseball captain 1917). With the YMCA in England
  213. in 1917; drafted in 1918, at Fort George Wright, Spokane, where he met Ruth Short, and
  214. commissioned at Camp Pike, Arkansas. University of Wisconsin Extension Division, Madison,
  215. 1922-1937 (M.S. 1929), with a year at Germantown, Philadelphia, in 1923. Moved to Spokane in
  216. November 1937; founded the Culligan Soft Water Service there on 15 February 1940 with his
  217. brother-in-law Jeff Short, and handed it to his son Dick in 1960, going part-time himself (the memoir; his
  218. 1985 obituary dates the change to 1964, when he was named chairman of the board). President of Spokane Rotary
  219. (1950-51) and of the Spokane YMCA, which in 1952-54 ran a boys' camp at Priest Lake, "'Y' Camp 'Cudge' Ellingwood". Wrote his memoir, *Cudge*, for his family in 1968-70
  220. (see Books). Lived his last ten years in Miami Shores, Florida.
  222. Children: Ruth (15 Apr 1923), Joyce (21 Jun 1925), Mary Jane (29 Sep 1926), Janet
  223. (14 May 1928) and Richard Everett Jr. "Dick" (15 Nov 1929).
  225. In the censuses: in 1920 at home in Evanston, single ([record](/files/sources/census-1920-evanston-ellingwood/)); in 1930 at
  226. Madison, dean of men, with Ruth and the five children ([record](/files/sources/census-1930-madison-ellingwood/)).
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