History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 113
Roper Furniture Company the efforts of the sons ably supplement
and round out those of the father and trained through years
of painstaking work, they are in every way adequate to assume
the discharge of comprehensive duties and guide the interests of
one of the most important business concerns in the city.
The family are members of the Episcopal church and in poli-
tics father and sons are progressive republicans, believing that in
politics as in business, advancement should be continuously made
with changes to meet the changing conditions of the times.
R. W. RUCKMAN.
R. W. Rnckman, a successful and popular young citizen of
Amboy, has held the position of cashier in the Amboy State Bank
since its inception in December, ]932. His bii'th occurred at Stew-
ard, Lee county, Illinois, on the 15th of September, 1890, his par-
ents being G. A. and Carrie (Bowies') Ruekman. The father,
who came to this county from "West Virginia in 1878, embarked
in business as a hardware merchant at Steward, where he has con-
ducted his enterprise successfully throughout the intervening
thirty-five years. He has ably served in the capacity of township
treasurer for many years and is widely recognized as one of the
substantial and representative citizens of the community. His
wife, whose demise occui-red in September, 1910, at the age of
forty-five years, is buried in the Steward cemetery. The family
is of old American stock.
R. W. Ruekman was gi'aduated from the Steward high school
in 1907 and then entered Coppin's Commercial College at Dixon.
After leaving the latter institution he assumed the duties of assistant
cashier of the First National bank of Steward and has
since remained a stockholder and director thereof. Tn December,
1912, at the time of the organization of the Amboy State Bank,
he entered that institution as cashier, in which position he has
already made a creditable record, discharging his important duties
in an efficient and highly commendable manner.
In his political views Mr. Ruekman is independent, support-
ing men and measures rather than party. At the time of his removal
to Amboy he had served in the office of town clerk for six
months. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, belonaring to
the blue lodge at Steward and the chapter at Rochclle, Illinois.