Reuben Rickard (August 20, 1841[1] – February 24, 1896[2]) was a mining engineer[1] He married Mary Elizabeth Humphreys October 3, 1863.
Rickard was hired by John Taylor and Sons of London to oversee their mining and metallurgical operations in Pontgibaud, France in the 1860s.
In 1875, the Rickard family emigrated to the United States as Reuben had been hired to manage the operations of the Richmond Mining Company in Eureka, Nevada.
He worked there six years before taking on another job inspecting mines for English investors throughout the western U.S. and Mexico.
[4] Reuben Rickard died February 24, 1896, of acute diarrhoea on board the steamer Bothwell Castle which was bound from Geraldton to Fremantle[5] in Western Australia[2] where he was inspecting a mining project.