In 1976, Guido wrote that he was born in Padova and his father was born in Venezia. No hard evidence of this, but his father is not listed in the "Situazione di Famiglia di Rugo Gio Batta fg Giuseppe” which includes only the three youngest children who were born in Tramonti di Sotto, so perhaps his father was born elsewhere. The online Friuli archives show his father as born in Tramonti di Sopra and the younger males born in di Sotto, no record for Maddelena.

Naval Training Unit at Harvard Univ. at start of WWI, about to begin active duty at time of Armistice. Draft registration card, September 1918, says that he is a ship fitter’s helper at Bethlehem Steel Co, Squantum Works. Also says that he is a citizen by his father’s naturalization before Guido attained majority. Residence listed as 173 Magnolia Street.
Guido Rugo - Birth Date: 6 Mar 1898 - Death Date: 18 Nov 1984
SSN: 011094527
Enlistment Date: 3 Oct 1918 - Release Date: 6 Dec 1918

1925 directory shows him as a chauffeur living at 173 Magnolia Street.
1927 directory calls him a foreman, same address.

1929 directory shows him as treasurer of Rugo Construction C., Inc. at 80 Boylston Street, Room 403, residence still Magnolia Street.

Moved to 329 Eliot Street, Milton in 1930.

1934 directory shows Guido at 329 Eliot Street, Milton. His brother Joseph is shown at 36 Hinckley Road.

7 February 1931, returns from Havana, Cuba, resident of Milton, Massachusetts, shown as single(?).

1936 - Gives his address as 329 Eliot Street, Milton, Massachusetts on passenger list for an apparent cruise to the West Indies from New York, 22 February to 12 March. His age, 30, and birth date, 3/6/04 in Boston, are wrong (day and month correct, but year is wrong).

28 February 1939 returns from a 24 day cruise from New York to Rio de Janeiro on the Normandie, a resident of 46 Hinckley Road, Milton.

Part owner of Boston Braves professional baseball team 1944-1951.

January 27, 1944 :Lou Perini , Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of the Braves and oust Casey Stengel as manager.

August 1949 - bought Carcassonne on Ocean Avenue, Marblehead for $50,000 according to the Boston Globe. It had been built in the early 1930s, apparently for more than $300,000.

1950 city directory shows them on Ocean Avenue, Marblehead with three sons, Paul, Richard and Lawrence, all students.

January 23, 1951 : Guido Rugo sells his interest in the Braves to copartners Lou Perini and Treasurer Joe Maney.

24 February 1951 arrives in New York on BOAC from Nassau.

1961 and 1963 directories show him as president and treasurer of Guido L. Rugo, Inc, room 1105, 80 Boylston Street, and his sons as officers of G.L. Rugo and Sons, Inc. in room 901.

"GUIDO L. RUGO , 86, CONTRACTOR; WAS PART-OWNER OF BOSTON BRAVES
Date: 11/19/1984, Page: 27
Section: OBITUARY
Guido L. Rugo of West Roxbury, a prominent contractor who once was a part- owner of the Boston Braves baseball team, died yesterday at home. He was 86.

Mr. Rugo was born in Padua, Italy. He came to Dorchester when he was a year old. He was a 1917 graduate of Boston English High School, where he played hockey and was a member of the football team that won the Boston city championship. He was named All-scholastic quarterback, one of his proudest accomplishments.

At the start of World War I, Mr. Rugo was a member of the Naval Training Unit at Harvard University. He was prepared to go to active service when the Armistice was signed.

After his high school graduation, Mr. Rugo went into business with his father, Joseph. In 1929, he and his brothers, Leonard and Joseph, began the Rugo Construction Co.

Over a period of 30 years, the firm built many projects throughout the Boston area, including two regional high schools for the Archdiocese of Boston.

During World War II, the firm entered a joint venture with the Perini Co. and built the Letter-Kenny Ordnance Depot in Chambersburg, Pa. For that work, firms were awarded an "E" for excellence in construction management by the Army Corps of Engineers.

In 1944, Mr. Rugo and two other local contractors, Louis Perini and Joseph Maney - "Three Steam Shovels" - bought the Boston Braves. The team won the 1948 National League pennant, but lost the World Series to Cleveland.

Mr. Rugo sold his Braves stock to Perini and Maney in 1951.

He lived for many years in Milton and Marblehead. He once owned Carcassonne, a glittering North Shore estate that had been the summer home of Lydia Pinkham Gove, who amassed a fortune with her patent medicine formula.

Mr. Rugo was a major fund-raiser for the Catholic Church. He received the Archbishop Cushing Medal for Charitable and Apostolic Services for God and the Church.

He was a member of the Engineers Club of Boston, the Commonwealth Country Club, the Wollaston Golf Club and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. He helped found the Boston chapter of the Assn. of General Contractors of Massachusetts and served as the organization's vice president and president.

Mr. Rugo leaves his wife Beatrice of Boston; four sons, Robert of Waltham, Richard of Brookline, Lawrence of Marblehead and Paul Rugo of Newton; 16 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Holy Name Church in West Roxbury. Burial will be in New Calvary Cemetery in Mattapan."

Guido Rugo
SSN: 011-09-4527
Last Residence: 02131  Roslindale, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States of America
Born: 6 Mar 1898
Died: Nov 1984
State (Year) SSN issued: Massachusetts (Before 1951)