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Colonel Joseph S. Ruckle (or Ruckel) was a businessman who moved to Oregon in 1855.[1]
In Oregon, he captained Van Bergen's Oregon Steam Navigation Company steamship named the Fashion on the Columbia River.[1][2] He then built his own boat, the Mountain Buck, and then a railroad portage.[1] The rail portage, which was the Oregon Portage Railroad, was around the Cascades on the Columbia, and was the first railroad in Oregon.[3]
Ruckle was elected state senator in 1858 over Clackamas and Wasco counties.[4] A Democrat, he represented District 2, but as Oregon had not yet entered the Union, there was no official session in 1858.[5] He only served during the 1859 special session, the first meeting of the state legislature.[6]
In 1864 and 1865, he and George Thomas built the Thomas and Ruckle Road over the Blue Mountains.[1] He also developed a quartz mine near Powder River that became known as the Virtue Mine.[1]
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