- Prior to becoming a cartoonist, he was a plumbing engineer whose task it was to draw out plumbing diagrams along with a full description of the pressure variances. This many have had a strong influence on his "inventions" he later become famous for.
- Received the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1948 Founder of the National Cartoonist Society
- Upon his death, his remains were interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York.
- Sons: Thomas Reuben George, a painter, of Princeton, N.J. and George Warren George, a New York theatrical producer.
- Induced into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1970.
- Rube Goldberg is mentioned in Chapter 9 of the Republic serial The Black Widow (1947).
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