The sweep of family history across the generations
It was a signature moment of the turbulent 1960s. Walter, 18, and Dan, 15, were there in Chicago, working as messengers for the Eugene McCarthy campaign.
Widow Patty Smith Swett and six children by two husbands were among the first settlers who staked claims in Wapello County near Ottumwa in May 1843
Twyla Ariel Eilertsen Ruby was born on August 7, 1985
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
The Ruby family comes of age in a bedroom suburb west of Chicago
Home from the war, Stan Ruby was a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Helga Ringel was a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin
Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre.
Social reformer Nathan Meeker was among nine men killed in an uprising of Ute Indians at the White River reservation where he was serving as U.S. agent. His wife and daughter—Smith family descendants—were held hostage for three weeks
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.