Résumé

Principal, Harry Ridgway, Architect/Contractor, Pasadena, CA, c. 1880.

Partner, Ridgway and Stewart, Architects, Pasadena, CA, c. 1887.

Principal, Harry Ridgway, Architect, Pasadena, CA, 1895-1896. He worked at 19 West Colorado Street in Pasadena. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1895, p. 1737 and Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1896, p. 1657.)

Principal, Harry Ridgway, Architect, Riverside, CA, 1905. His office was located at 755 Main Street, and, according to the 1896 city directory, was the only architect working in RIverside (See Riverside, California, City Directory, 1905, pp. 224 and 297.)

Principal, Harry Ridgway, Architect, Pomona, CA, 1912. Ridgeway moved to Pomona, CA, where he worked in Room #14 of the Parkford Building. (See Pomona, California, City Directory, 1912, p. 696.)

Ridgway worked in an office at 2225 Duane Street, Los Angeles in 1913. He received his certificate to practice architecture in the State of CA in 01/1913. (See “New Architects,” Architect and Engineer, vol. XXXII, no. 1, 02/1913, p. 142.)

Relocation

Born in Canada, Ridgway lived in that country until age 23. He left Canada at Sarnia, ON, and entered the US at Port Huron, MI, in 01/1866. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Naturalization Records in the Superior Court of Los Angeles, California, 1876-1915; Microfilm Roll: 10; Microfilm Serial: M1614, accesed 02/19/2019. The US Census of 1910 indicated that he entered the US in 1872.)

Ridgway and his wife were living in Pasadena, CA, in 1880. In that year, the U.S. Census indicated his profession as "carpenter."

The architect resided at 545 Cridge Street in Riverside, CA, in 1905. (See Riverside, California, City Directory, 1905, p. 224.) The following year he moved to Long Beach, CA. (See Riverside, California, City Directory, 1906, p. 273.)

In 1910-1911, Ridgway and his wife, Mary, resided at 245 3rd Avenue in Upland, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Upland, San Bernardino, California; Roll: T624_94; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 0124; FHL microfilm: 1374107, accessed 02/19/2019 and Pomona, California, City Directory, 1911, p. 654.) In 1912, he and Mary lived at 102 1/2 West A Street in Ontario, CA. (See Pomona, California, City Directory, 1912, p. 696.) By 1913, they returned to Los Angeles, living at 2225 Duane Street. (See Los Angeles, California, City Directory, 1913, p. 1593.)

Parents

Both of Ridgway's parents were from Ireland.

Spouse

Harry Ridgway was married to Caroline Ridgway, (born c. 1843 in Peru). Her parents were from France and Germany.

He wed Mary E. Deisbrow (born c. 1852 in NY) on 07/26/1905 in Santa Ana, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation California Department of Public Health, courtesy of www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com. Digital Images, accessed 02/19/2019.) Mary Deisbrow Ridgway lived at 714 Saint John Avenue in Pasadena, CA, the year after Harry Ridgway's death. (See Thurston's Pasadena, California, City Directory, 1914, p. 342.)

Biographical Notes

Ridgway's name was periodically spelled,'Ridgeway"; the 1880 U.S. Census indicated that his name was spelled "Ridgway."

On 01/15/1885, Harry Ridgway and C.B. Ripley were elected Officers of the Masonic Lodge in Pasadena, CA.

At age 62, Ridgway filed a declaration of his intention to be naturalized on 08/11/1906 in Los Angeles Superior Court. See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Naturalization Records in the Superior Court of Los Angeles, California, 1876-1915; Microfilm Roll: 10; Microfilm Serial: M1614, accesed 02/19/2019.)