Résumé

Secretary, Ye Planry Building Company, Los Angeles, CA, -09/1913.

Principal, E.B. Rust, Architect, Long, Beach, CA, 1918. His business address in 1918 was Room #301 of the Marine National Bank Building in Long Beach, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Registration State: California; Registration County: Los Angeles Source Information: U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm, accessed 09/07/2023.)

Partner, Rust and Wilson, Associated Architects, Los Angeles, CA, 1920- . (In April 1920, Rust and Charles Lewis Wilson announced that they would associate for "some commissions.")

Partner, [Jospeh C.] Chapman and Rust, Architects, Los Angeles, CA, 1927-c.1929. (See "Joseph C. Chapman announces his association with E.B. Rust, architect, with offices in the Black Building, 523, Los Angeles," Architect and Engineer, 04/1927, p. 114.)

Principal, E.B. Rust, Architect, Los Angeles, CA, c.1929;

College

Coursework, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, c. 1902-1905.

B.S., Architecture, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Berkeley, CA, 1906-1908.

Relocation

According to his obituary, E.B. Rust was born in the area of South Pasadena, CA, in 1883; at the time, however, neither Pasadena nor South Pasadena were yet cities, the former organizing itself as a municipality in 1886, the latter in 1888. Members of his family were Euro-American pioneers in the region, and he was born on a family farm in what became South Pasadena.

Rust attended both Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) as an undergraduate. Rust was at Stanford between 1902 and 1905 where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. His permanent address was listed as 622 West 18th Street in Los Angeles. (See Catalogue of Beta Theta Pi, Seventh Edition, William Raimond Baird and James T. Brown, eds., [Galesburg, IL: Mail Printing Company, 1905], p. 499.)

In the University of California Registers of 1906-1907 and 1907-1908, Rust was listed as a third-year social science student studying architecture. He resided at 2607 Hearst Avenue in Berkeley, CA. (See "Undergraduates Students," University of California Register, 1906-1907, [Berkeley: The University Press, 1907], p. 84 andUniversity of California Bulletins,3rd Series, vol. 1, no. 1,University of California, Colleges of Letters, Sciences, and Engineering, Undergraduate Departments, Letters, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Commerce, Agriculture, Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engineering, and Chemistry, Including the First and Second Years of the College of Medicine, 1907-1908, [Berkeley: The University Press, 1908], p. 92.)

Rust's World War I draft registration card listed his address on 09/12/1918 as 662 La Loma Road, Pasadena, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Registration State: California; Registration County: Los Angeles Source Information: U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm, accessed 09/07/2023.)

In 1921, Rust lived in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, at 274 Sierra Vista Drive. (See Stanford University Alumni Directory and Ten-Year Book (Graduates and Non-Graduates) III, 1891-1920, [Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1921], p. 446.) This volume indicated that he attended Stanford in 1902-1903.

In 1958, the architect lived with his second wife Veronica at 446 Chelsea Way, San Gabriel, CA.

Rust died in Los Angeles, County, CA, at the age of 75. He was buried in Resurrection Cemetery, Montebello, CA.

Parents

His parents were Clarissa Butler Blaney (born 05/24/856) and Frank Nelson Rust. Frank was the son of Horatio N. Rust and Fidelia Humphreys. They married 11/17/1880 in Princeton, NJ, before relocating to the Pasadena area. Edward was the couple's elder of two children. They also had a daughter, Josephine Blaney (Rust) (born 05/19/1890 in CA), who became Mrs. Leroy B. Sherry. Josephine survived Edward. Blaney and Rust divorced in 1907.

Spouse

E.B. Rust, Sr., married Constance Maclintock (1887-1935) on 06/20/1911 in Pasadena. She was the daughter of James Russell Maclintock and Kate Edell Stout.

He married Veronica F. Rust, who survived him.

Children

With Constance Maclintock, he had a son, Edward Butler Rust, Jr., (born 01/13/1913-died 06/09/1918). He and Veronica had a daughter, Jospehine Blaney Rust, known in 1958 as Mrs. Emil Schweitzer, who resided in Temple City, CA.

Biographical Notes

Rust's name was misspelled on some catalog cards found in the LAPL California Index as "Ruse."

His World War I draft registration card listed Rust, at age 35, as Caucasian with brown eyes and brown hair. He was tall in stature with a medium build. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Registration State: California; Registration County: Los Angeles Source Information: U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm, accessed 09/07/2023.)

There is an "Edward B. Rust" endowed position at Stanford University, the Edward B. Rust Professor of Political Science in the Graduate School of Business.

SSN: 571206645.

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