More newspaper citations for Walter Ruby in the Catrow affair and as a boxing manager—but is it our Walter?
Assessing the evidence for Walter Ruby as a boxing manager and/or bootlegger.
Grammy was a founding trustee of the Long Beach Hadassah branch
Grammy was a founder of the Long Beach, L.I. branch of Hadassah.
Walter Ruby's last enterprise was Ruby Carbonator Company
His Daily News obit reveals his final entrepreneurial idea.
Walter Ruby called "the gin king" in a 1934 advertisement
He cultivated an image as the witty, urbane man about town—the personification of his brand.
Henry Pachter's biography
Biographical sketch from the The Henry M. Pachter Papers at SUNY Albany.
Rabinowitz family in the Bronx
Before and after Joseph Rabinowitz’s death in 1917, family members resettled in the Bronx
The Paechters in Berlin
Most of the family from Tiegenhof found their way to Berlin by the early years of the twentieth century. At first they prospered—until the coming devastation
Pächter relative sentenced to four months in prison for printing a Communist newspaper in 1929
Cousin Emil Paechter was caught up in the aftermath of the May Day government crackdown on Communists.