Richard Everett Ellingwood

A young man in a suit and bow tie standing by a gate (page 1); on the back (page 2), “Cudge about 1911-12 age 16 Richard E. Ellingwood born Feb. 14, 1895.” The family was then at Evanston, Illinois.

Two men in suits sitting on a low stone wall before a brick house (page 1); on the back (page 2), “Nov. 7, 1937 / Winnetka / Cudge [?] + Goz just before we came West.” The family moved from Madison to Spokane that month. Ruth’s brother Jeffrey Short and his wife Nancy had a home at Winnetka (Cudge’s memoir, scan 82); who Goz was is not known, nor which of the two is Cudge.

A man in a three-piece suit standing by a building with “Soft Water” lettered on its window (page 1); on the back (page 2), “1940 Spokane Cudge,” stamped “R75.” Cudge founded the Culligan Soft Water Service at Spokane on 15 February 1940.

A man swinging a sledge at a stake while another holds it and a third looks on (page 1); on the back (page 2): “Ellingwood. Cudge driving a stake for ‘horseshoe’ game at Camp Cowles - Diamond [?] Lake on a Rotary trip in July 1948. Van der Loeff [?] holding the stake,” stamped “076.” Camp Cowles is the Scout camp on Diamond Lake, north of Spokane. Cudge had joined the Rotary Club in 1941 (his memoir, scan 147).

Sheet 6, lines 25-32: Finley, physician, born Sept 1852; Jennie S.; and their six children, Elma J., Laura A., Elliott L., Finley F., R. Everett (“Cudge”, 5) and Lloyd. Jennie had borne seven children, six living.

Sheet 10B, lines 56-60: Finley, 57, physician, editor of a medical journal; Jennie S., 52; and the three youngest sons, Finley F., Richard E. and Lloyd.

Sheet 2B, lines 89-93: Finley, 67, publisher; Jennie S., 62; Everett R. (“Cudge”), 24, in business efficiency; Lloyd, 23, a student; and their granddaughter Jennie Harriet Cother, 10, daughter of the late Laura (Ellingwood) Cother. Finley died that June.

Certificate of marriage, license no. A 30209, filed 19 Aug 1921: Richard Everett Ellingwood (“Cudge”) of Evanston, 26, auditor, son of Finley Ellingwood and Jennie S. Elliott, and Ruth Ethelwyn Short of 901 W. 13th Avenue, Spokane, 28, stenographer, born Ontario, daughter of John Gerald Short (deceased) and Mary Pattullo. Her mother, Mrs. J. G. Short, was a witness. The date of the ceremony is left blank; the family dates it 26 July 1921.

A shop window dressed for “National Baseball Week,” with “Play Ball!” and signs for “Equipment” and “Trophies, Cups, Medals” (page 1). On the back (page 2): “Cudge’s store? Cudge Ellingwood was capt. of Northwestern’s baseball team. Craig Belmondo has his uniform,” with the stamp of the University Photo Shop, Madison. In the Depression Cudge bought the Wisconsin Sporting Goods Company of Madison at a receiver’s sale and ran it with Dutch Midland, who had managed his baseball team (his memoir, scan 115).

Two prints of the Sunset Highway at Spokane, with a roadside house and a billboard on the rise beside it (page 1), and their backs (page 2), each numbered 5: “Party on lots on Sunset Highway. This part sold to a Texan” and “our lots on Sunset Highway (#10) by state weighing station.”

Cudge Ellingwood took the lots in trade for the old truck of his move west. In 1944 he bought the rest of the block at a sale for the heirs of its owners and sold the part a sergeant from Texas wanted for a motel; a few years later the state highway department, which had put a weighing station beside them, bought the rest (his memoir, scans 136-137).