Robert Edwin Russ, the founder of Ruston, Louisiana, was born in Holmes Valley in 1830 but soon moved to Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
One of its graduates, Claybrook Cottingham, was later its assistant principal and subsequently in his long academic career the president of both Louisiana College in Pineville and Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.
The Louisiana Tech University Arboretum (50 acres, 20 hectares) is located on the South Campus of the Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.
In 1990 RB bought from its rival Priestman, the design and manufacturing rights to Priestman's Variable Counterbalance hydraulic/cable long reach excavator range and its extensive range of Grabs.
A source of oral history on the general Ruston area, Faulk was considered an expert on the 1934 ambush in Bienville Parish of the bandits Bonnie and Clyde, having covered the scene as the young publisher of the Ruston Daily Leader.
East Ruston is distinguished as the birthplace of that eminent Greek scholar, Richard Porson, M.A., who was born here in 1759, and was first initiated in letters by his father, then clerk of the parish.
The station building at County School was formally opened by John Timpson on 15 June 1990, who was brought into the station on a short train consisting of the Ruston diesel and LMS brake van.
By 1926, following a change of management and a new Resident Director, Robin Hoare, the slate works at the Hause had been electrified (powered by two large Ruston 4-cylinder diesel generators), together with considerable modifications undertaken throughout the quarries, and the mine's fortunes began to improve with significantly increased production.
A dissertation on Mercer's life and frontier experience was completed in 1950 at the University of Texas by Robert W. Mondy, the late professor of history at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana.
Stone's tenure over the Southern University system coincided with that of F. Jay Taylor of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, also a native of Gibsland.
In 1976 Ruston took up an appointment as Archdeacon of Bloemfontein and as an examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bloemfontein and warden and chaplain of St Michael’s School, Bloemfontein.
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Ruston was ordained to the episcopacy as Bishop Suffragan of Pretoria, being sent to oversee the Archdeaconry of the North centred on Pietersburg (now Polokwane).
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In retirement, Ruston returned to South Africa after a brief visit to England and worked at Bot River, Bella Vista and Kenilworth in the Diocese of Cape Town.
The station building at County School was formally opened as a heritage railway centre by John Timpson on 15 June 1990, who was brought into the station for the occasion on a short train composed of a Ruston diesel locomotive and LMS brake van.
Consisting of wealthy planters, businessmen, and New Orleans's Regular Democratic Organization political bosses, the political leadership of the state united behind the candidacy of U.S. Congressman Riley J. Wilson of Ruston in July 1927.
A 1986 Sports Illustrated article stated, "A Lady Techster is likely to be a good student and a devout Christian, probably favors needlepoint over Madonna tapes on airplanes and fears a drug test about as much as she does an airport metal detector." The same article stated that Hogg's insistence that her players act like ladies gave the team an "almost antebellum image" that was well-suited to a conservative town like Ruston.
Ruston was selected for inclusion in the international group show, “Viva Lolita” curated by former British Museum curator James Putnam.
For seventeen years, Wilbert Ellis, a Ruston native and 1959 Grambling graduate, was Jones's assistant baseball coach; in 1977.
Shadoin defeated fellow Republican, Jason Paul Bullock (born 1977), also of Ruston, in the general election held on November 19, 2011, to choose a successor to Republican Hollis Downs, a professor at Louisiana Tech University.
He advised governors and congressmen, spoke at every Kiwanis and Optimist Club within a day’s drive of Ruston and still found time daily to spend with his friends Thoreau and Tennyson, Pope and Emerson.
He was a trustee of Ruston College, which in 1894 became the future Louisiana Tech University.
Grandson Norman Hopkins Martien, Jr. (1926-2012), a Waterproof native, was a graduate in chemical engineering of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston and an engineering project manager for Kaiser Aluminum in Gramercy, Louisiana.
Ruston co-write the song "Heart and Soul" from the Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam soundtrack.
The rolling stock consisted mainly of Motor-Rails and Ruston diesel-powered engines, and a singular Peckett and Sons steam locomotive, No.1327 0-6-0ST of 1913 named Mesozoic.