Ruth Ethelwyn Short

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name
Ruth Ethelwyn Short
aka
[Ruth Ellingwood]
sex
female
access
public
summary
Born at Woodstock, Ontario, in 1893, the youngest child of John G. Short and Mary Pattullo, she came with her family to Chicago in 1897 and later to Spokane, where she was a stenographer and a Christian Scientist. She met Cudge Ellingwood at a church party in 1918 and married him in 1921. Mother of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. and four daughters.
born
date
13 Jan 1893
place
Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[birth-register-ruth-short-1893, census-1900-chicago-short, online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry]
note
Her birth registration, registered 10 Feb 1893 by her father; "Jan 1893" in the 1900 census.
died
date
13 Feb 1974
place
Spokane, Washington
basis
compiled
confidence
probable
sources
[newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood, online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry]
note
The year from her husband's obituary ("after her death in 1974"); the day and place from the Ancestry tree.
residences
date
1900
place
Chicago, Illinois
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1900-chicago-short]
note
In her parents' household in Hyde Park, aged 7. The family came to the United States in 1897 (the 1930 census has 1895).
date
1921
place
901 W. 13th Avenue, Spokane, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921]
note
Her address at her marriage; a stenographer.
date
Jan 1922
place
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Cudge's memoir, p. G1: their first separate home, a furnished second-floor apartment two blocks from the railroad station, before the move to Madison in October 1922.
date
1930
place
Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[census-1930-madison-ellingwood]
note
In her husband's household. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
events
what
Winters in Phoenix
date
1959
place
Phoenix, Arizona
note
She and her husband wintered in Phoenix from 1959, in her later years.
what
Holiday on Orcas Island
date
1919
place
Orcas Island, Washington
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Cudge's memoir, p. 83: she, her sister Mary and friends had planned their summer vacation on Orcas Island, Puget Sound.
what
Said yes at Twin Lakes
date
1920
place
Twin Lakes, Idaho
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Cudge's memoir, pp. 83-84: at the cottage with her mother, sister Mary and a friend; he proposed in the meadow behind the cabin.
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 at Squaw Bay, a rangers' tent on Lookout Mountain, no rain and no mosquitoes.
what
Stranded at Sauk Centre
date
Nov 1937
place
Sauk Centre, Minnesota
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, pp. H2-H3: driving the Chrysler west with the children while the furniture truck was mended, she waited at a rooming house in 20-below cold, bought long underwear at Penney's, and the landlady began to think she had been deserted.
what
Rotary convention
date
1950
place
Detroit, Michigan
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, pp. I34-I35: the incoming Rotary president and his wife are sent to the International Convention; at breakfast the Egyptian Secretary of the Treasury and his wife joined them, and the two wives compared pictures of their children through him.
what
Flew to Hingham
date
1950
place
Hingham, Massachusetts
sources
[memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
note
Memoir, p. I35: after the Detroit convention she flew on to Hingham to stay with a married daughter, while Cudge drove a Hudson west.
father
id
john-short-1845
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[birth-register-ruth-short-1893, marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921, census-1900-chicago-short]
research
research/ellingwood/Short_Pattullo_Comparison.md
note
Her birth registration (Woodstock, 1893) names her parents John G. Short, manufacturer, and Mary Pattullo; so does her marriage certificate (Spokane, 1921), and she is in their household in the 1900 census.
mother
id
mary-pattullo-1852
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[birth-register-ruth-short-1893, marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921, census-1900-chicago-short]
note
"Mary Pattullo" on her birth registration (1893) and her marriage certificate (1921). The memoir fits it: her cousin was Duff Pattullo, premier of British Columbia, and her daughter Mary Jane was named for her two grandmothers.

Of Spokane, a stenographer in a real estate office; a Christian Scientist. She met Cudge at a church party while he was stationed at Fort George Wright in 1918, and married him in 1921. She suffered from arthritis in later life; they wintered in Phoenix from 1959.

She was born at Woodstock, Ontario, on 13 January 1893, the youngest of the five children of John G. Short, then a manufacturer, and Mary Pattullo (record). The family moved to Chicago in 1896-97, where the 1900 census finds them in Hyde Park (record), and by 1910 to Spokane. Her brothers and sisters: Jeffrey Robson "Jeff" Short, Cudge's backer in the soft-water business; Mary Isabella, a piano teacher in Spokane; Jeannie Beatrice "Bea", a public health nurse, who died in 1969; and Arthur Wendell, who died as a baby.

She signed her name "Ruth Ethelwyn Short" on her marriage certificate in 1921 (record), the spelling of her birth registration.

Open questions

  • When the family moved from Chicago to Spokane (her father was at Spokane by November 1910).
  1. ---
  2. name: Ruth Ethelwyn Short
  3. aka: [Ruth Ellingwood]
  4. sex: female
  5. access: public
  6. summary: >-
  7. Born at Woodstock, Ontario, in 1893, the youngest child of John G. Short and Mary Pattullo, she
  8. came with her family to Chicago in 1897 and later to Spokane, where she was a stenographer and a
  9. Christian Scientist. She met Cudge Ellingwood at a church party in 1918 and married him in 1921.
  10. Mother of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr. and four daughters.
  11. born:
  12. date: 13 Jan 1893
  13. place: Woodstock, Oxford County, Ontario
  14. basis: documented
  15. confidence: proven
  16. sources: [birth-register-ruth-short-1893, census-1900-chicago-short, online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry]
  17. note: Her birth registration, registered 10 Feb 1893 by her father; "Jan 1893" in the 1900 census.
  18. died:
  19. date: 13 Feb 1974
  20. place: Spokane, Washington
  21. basis: compiled
  22. confidence: probable
  23. sources: [newspaper-spokane-chronicle-1985-03-06-ellingwood, online-tree-ellingwood-ancestry]
  24. note: The year from her husband's obituary ("after her death in 1974"); the day and place from the Ancestry tree.
  25. residences:
  26. - date: "1900"
  27. place: Chicago, Illinois
  28. basis: documented
  29. confidence: proven
  30. sources: [census-1900-chicago-short]
  31. note: In her parents' household in Hyde Park, aged 7. The family came to the United States in 1897 (the 1930 census has 1895).
  32. - date: "1921"
  33. place: 901 W. 13th Avenue, Spokane, Washington
  34. basis: documented
  35. confidence: proven
  36. sources: [marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921]
  37. note: Her address at her marriage; a stenographer.
  38. - date: "Jan 1922"
  39. place: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
  40. basis: documented
  41. confidence: probable
  42. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  43. note: "Cudge's memoir, p. G1: their first separate home, a furnished second-floor apartment two blocks from the railroad station, before the move to Madison in October 1922."
  44. - date: "1930"
  45. place: Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
  46. basis: documented
  47. confidence: probable
  48. sources: [census-1930-madison-ellingwood]
  49. note: In her husband's household. Attached in the Ancestry tree; not checked here.
  50. events:
  51. - what: Winters in Phoenix
  52. date: "1959"
  53. place: Phoenix, Arizona
  54. note: "She and her husband wintered in Phoenix from 1959, in her later years."
  55. - what: Holiday on Orcas Island
  56. date: "1919"
  57. place: Orcas Island, Washington
  58. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  59. note: "Cudge's memoir, p. 83: she, her sister Mary and friends had planned their summer vacation on Orcas Island, Puget Sound."
  60. - what: Said yes at Twin Lakes
  61. date: "1920"
  62. place: Twin Lakes, Idaho
  63. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  64. note: "Cudge's memoir, pp. 83-84: at the cottage with her mother, sister Mary and a friend; he proposed in the meadow behind the cabin."
  65. - what: Honeymoon at Priest Lake
  66. date: "Aug 1921"
  67. place: Priest Lake, Idaho
  68. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  69. note: "Cudge's memoir, pp. 85-87: two weeks camping at Squaw Bay, a rangers' tent on Lookout Mountain, no rain and no mosquitoes."
  70. - what: Stranded at Sauk Centre
  71. date: "Nov 1937"
  72. place: Sauk Centre, Minnesota
  73. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  74. note: "Memoir, pp. H2-H3: driving the Chrysler west with the children while the furniture truck was mended, she waited at a rooming house in 20-below cold, bought long underwear at Penney's, and the landlady began to think she had been deserted."
  75. - what: Rotary convention
  76. date: "1950"
  77. place: Detroit, Michigan
  78. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  79. note: "Memoir, pp. I34-I35: the incoming Rotary president and his wife are sent to the International Convention; at breakfast the Egyptian Secretary of the Treasury and his wife joined them, and the two wives compared pictures of their children through him."
  80. - what: Flew to Hingham
  81. date: "1950"
  82. place: Hingham, Massachusetts
  83. sources: [memoir-cudge-ellingwood-1970]
  84. note: "Memoir, p. I35: after the Detroit convention she flew on to Hingham to stay with a married daughter, while Cudge drove a Hudson west."
  85. father:
  86. id: john-short-1845
  87. basis: documented
  88. confidence: proven
  89. sources: [birth-register-ruth-short-1893, marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921, census-1900-chicago-short]
  90. research: research/ellingwood/Short_Pattullo_Comparison.md
  91. note: Her birth registration (Woodstock, 1893) names her parents John G. Short, manufacturer, and Mary Pattullo; so does her marriage certificate (Spokane, 1921), and she is in their household in the 1900 census.
  92. mother:
  93. id: mary-pattullo-1852
  94. basis: documented
  95. confidence: proven
  96. sources: [birth-register-ruth-short-1893, marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921, census-1900-chicago-short]
  97. note: '"Mary Pattullo" on her birth registration (1893) and her marriage certificate (1921). The memoir fits it: her cousin was Duff Pattullo, premier of British Columbia, and her daughter Mary Jane was named for her two grandmothers.'
  98. ---
  100. Of Spokane, a stenographer in a real estate office; a Christian Scientist. She met Cudge
  101. at a church party while he was stationed at Fort George Wright in 1918, and married him in
  102. 1921. She suffered from arthritis in later life; they wintered in Phoenix from 1959.
  104. She was born at Woodstock, Ontario, on 13 January 1893, the youngest of the five children of John G.
  105. Short, then a manufacturer, and Mary Pattullo ([record](/files/sources/birth-register-ruth-short-1893/)).
  106. The family moved to Chicago in 1896-97, where the 1900 census finds them in Hyde Park
  107. ([record](/files/sources/census-1900-chicago-short/)), and by 1910 to Spokane. Her brothers and sisters:
  108. [Jeffrey Robson "Jeff" Short](/people/jeffrey-short-1880/), Cudge's backer in the soft-water business;
  109. [Mary Isabella](/people/mary-short-1881/), a piano teacher in Spokane; [Jeannie Beatrice
  110. "Bea"](/people/jeannie-short-1884/), a public health nurse, who died in 1969; and [Arthur
  111. Wendell](/people/arthur-short-1886/), who died as a baby.
  113. She signed her name "Ruth Ethelwyn Short" on her marriage certificate in 1921
  114. ([record](/files/sources/marriage-certificate-ellingwood-short-1921/)), the spelling of her birth
  115. registration.
  117. ## Open questions
  119. - When the family moved from Chicago to Spokane (her father was at Spokane by November 1910).
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