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Biography of G. G. Ruel
G. G. Reul, foreman in C. C. Washburn's shingle mill, P. O. Hixon, was born in Ft. Atkinson, Jefferson Co., Wis., Jan. 10, 1852. His father was a lumberman and had a sash and door factory. Moving to Dane County, working in the factory most of the time up to 1869, he then went to Baraboo, and, in 1873, opened sash and door factory, run by Reul Brothers. In 1874, he was working in a mill in Rockford, Ill.; in 1875, went to LaCrosse, and worked with George Pierce, and finally for C. C. Washburn; Fall of 1880, came here--built the shingle mill which has a capacity of 80,000 per day. In 1874, he married Miss F. C Royce, of Litchfield, Minn. The have one child, George. Mr. Reul is a member of Baraboo Masonic Lodge.
Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin.
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