The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 752 
A portrait of Robert C. Rueschaw appears in this publication.
 
ROBERT C. RUESCHAW.

Robert C. Rueschaw is identified with the business interests of the Yakima
valley as one of the owners of the Ruebow ranch. In the middle west he is
prominently known in connection with automobile manufacturing, being the
vice-president of the Mitchell Motor Company of Racine, Wisconsin. He was born
in Chicago in 1865, and supplemented a public school education by a course in a
business college. He started out in life as an employee of the Featherstone
Company, baby carriage manufacturers of Chicago, and thoroughly mastered the
business, faithfully performing every duty entrusted to him. Later he was with
the Pope-Toledo Company and afterward the Pope-Hartford Automobile Manufacturing
Company as a salesman and from that time to the present has been closely and
prominently connected with the motor car trade. On leaving the Pope-Hartford
people he went with the Reo Automobile Company as general sales manager and
occupied that position for thirteen years. He next became vice president of the
Mitchell Motor Company of Racine and is now bending his efforts to
administrative direction and executive control in connection with one of the
large motor car manufacturing interests of the country, its output being sent to
all sections of the United States.

Mr. Rueschaw was united in marriage to Miss Mary Bowes and they have four
children. Mr. Rueschaw is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is an active
sportsman. He is very fond of the Yakima valley. which he visits every year, and
here he owns a fine fruit ranch which is conducted on shares by his
brother-in-law, William E. Bowes.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.