William Ruger was admitted to the bar.

The evidence

• “The subject of this sketch was admitted to the bar in 1859. Upon the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion he cooperated with his brother Edward in raising a company of volunteers at Janesville, first known as the Ruger guards, and afterwards as Company A of the Thirteenth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 255 / book p. 756

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources