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Rudesill, Colonel Ellsworth (1861-1944)
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Men of West Virginia, Volume II
Biographical Publishing Company
George Richmond, Pres.: C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas.
Chicago, Illinois, 1903

Pages 557-558

HON. COLONEL ELLSWORTH RUDESILL, member of the House of Delegates
of the West Virginia Legislature from Kanawha County, a prominent
merchant of Charleston, of which city he is the present mayor, and
the senior member of the firm of Rudesill & Meade, dealers both
wholesale and retail in fine imported and domestic china and
glassware, was born in Akron, Ohio. His parents, C. J. and Frances
(Bentley) Rudesill, were also born in Ohio. C. J. Rudesill is a
prominent resident of Shandon, Ohio.

Colonel Ellsworth Rudesill attended the common and high schools of
his native place and then took a business course in a commercial
college. He later accepted a clerical position with the Upson Coal
Company, of Shawnee, Ohio, with whom he remained one year, and then
engaged in a music business with Hamilton Brothers, of Springfield,
Ohio. In 1884, in association with his father, he embarked in a
crockery and queensware business at Gallipolis, Ohio, under the
firm style of C. J. Rudesill & Son, which partnership continued in
that town for about four years. In 1889 they removed to Charleston,
and established a successful business in the same line, which
continued until 1901, when the senior member retired from this firm
and C. H. Meade was admitted to partnership. This house is one of
the largest of its kind in the State, and the stock carried is
complete in every particular. The business is located at No. 65
Capitol street, where the three-story structure is fitted with all
modern improvements and conveniences. The dimensions of the
building are 30 by 100 feet with basement; a stock room at No. 67
Capitol street is made use of in the growing wholesale business.

Mr. Rudesill has been a prominent member of the Republican party
for a number of years, and since the fall of 1900 has ably
represented Kanawha County as a member of the House of Delegates.
He was the Republican candidate for mayor of Charleston, at the
city election held March 9, 1903, and was elected. He has filled a
number of responsible State offices and is director of the Asylum
for Incurables, at Huntington, West Virginia. Fraternally he is
associated with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks.

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From Death Certificate, Kanawha County, WV #1775
FULL-NAME: Colonel Ellsworth Rudesill
BIRTH-DATE: October 10, 1861
BIRTH-PLACE: Medina, Ohio
DEATH-DATE: February 12, 1944 (at age 82y-4m-2d)
DEATH-PLACE: Charleston General Hospital, Charleston, Kanawha, WV
MARITAL-STATUS: Married (Alice Romain Cromley)
OCCUPATION: Tax Collector, City of Charleston, W.Va.
FATHER: Columbus Jacob Rudesill (born in Sharon Center, Ohio)
MOTHER: Frank E. Bentley (born in Medina, Ohio)
CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Myocardial Infarction / Broncho Pneumonia
INFORMANT: Mrs. C. E. Rudesill (of 314 Jefferson St.)
BURIAL: Mt. View Cemetery, Charleston, W.Va.

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