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…

Walter Ruby

The youngest son of the immigrant Rabinowitz family, Walter Ruby reinvented himself…

Stanley Ruby

Golden boy from the "greatest generation" inhabited his Jewish-American identity and values. He…

Helga Ringel

Born into a German Jewish family, she escaped with her mother at age 14 and built a new life as…

Dan Ruby

Editorial technologist who created Family History Machine

Walter Ruby (the younger)

The eldest child of Stanley and Helga Ruby turned his youthful zeal for the Jewish state into a…

Selma Ratner

Daughter of Abe and Rose Ratner of Albany. Married Walter Ruby. Mother of Joan and Stanley.…

Joan Ruby

Daughter of Walter Ruby and Selma Ratner. Brother of Stanley. Mother of Wendy, Marsha and Robert…

Twyla Eilertsen Ruby

Twyla's graduate education in the history of science prepared her for a career in museum…