Arvilla Delight Smith
Held hostage with her daughter Josephine after husband Nathan Meeker was killed in a Colorado…
Nathan Cook Meeker
Social reformer sent to Colorado by Horace Greeley was the victim of an Indian uprising. He was…
Josephine Meeker
Daughter of Nathan Meeker who wrote and lectured about her experiences in the Meeker massacre.…
Ralph Lovejoy Meeker
Journalist for the New York Herald who exposed corruption in the Ulysses Grant…
Abraham Ratner
The founder of our Ratner family in America was born Abraham Bloch in Minsk. He came to Rostov,…
Rose Tulbowitz
Pogrom victim as a girl in Russia became the Ratner family matriarch in Albany, New York
Selma Ratner
Daughter of Abe and Rose Ratner of Albany. Married Walter Ruby. Mother of Joan and Stanley.…
George (Piser) Ratner
First son of Abe and Rose Ratner whose intermarriage to Emma Paeglow caused a family rift…