U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruffin, C. R. (b. 1857) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Tucker County, West Virginia From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time. by Hu Maxwell Kingwood, W. Va.; Preston Publishing Company, 1884. Pages 488-489 C. R. Ruffin was born in 1857, in Albemarle County, Va., son of F. G. Ruffin, and a lineal descendant of Thomas Jefferson. The relation was on his mother's side; was raised within four miles of Montecello, the place of Jefferson's residence. In 1879 he left Virginia, and went to Illinois, where he remained till 1883, when he went to Texas, the extreme N. W. panhandle. He was a vaquerro on the ranch of Curtis and Atkinson. They carried 32,000 cattle on the Deamond Stem Ranch. They had other ranches of, perhaps, as many cattle. Ruffin returned to Virginia the same year, and in October, 1883, came to Canaan to look after the interests of the Canaan Valley Blue Grass and Improvement Company, whose lands aggregate 5,000 acres. The Company was organized in October, 1883, by capitalists of Maryland and Virginia. The object is to clear the timber from the whole ranch, and make of it a cattle farm. C. R. Ruffin attended the Potomas Academy at Alexandra two years, and the University of Virginia one year. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Tucker County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/tucker/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------