Stanley Ruby
Golden boy from the "greatest generation" inhabited his Jewish-American identity and values. He never stopped asking "Why?"
Why Congress sent a committee to Puerto Rico in 1943
Severe food shortages gripped the U.S. territory during the war. A panel from Washington came to investigate
Sidney Kessler
Walter Ruby's boss in the liquor business became an influential figure an Innovator in the liquor and tourism industries in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Knud Knudsen
Connecticut industrialist and inventor who purchased the rights to Walter Ruby's corkscrew patent.
Walter Ruby
The youngest son of the immigrant Rabinowitz family, Walter Ruby reinvented himself as a man about town and brash advertising executive
Bertha Yesersky
The mother of Joseph Rabinowitz may have been the daughter of Abram Yesersky of Vaukavysk, whose sister was the spouse of Rabbi Elchanon Spektor. Her relation to Abram is not yet proven
Isidor Topp
Associate of Sidney Kessler who managed distillery construction and operations in Puerto Rico.
St. George of the East was in London's Jewish East End
The Twiasschor siblings may have had family in London.
The North American Ringel branch
When his siblings went to Berlin in the 1880s, Jakob Schia Ringel went to Hamburg, then Glasgow and Montreal. His two daughters raised families in the New York area
