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…
Harriet E. Smith
Raised as Hattie Smith in North Bloomfield, Ohio, she married Herbert Stetson in Earlville, Iowa…
Martha Haskell
Daughter of Captain Haskell born in Chautauqua who married Josiah T. Smith in Trumbull County,…
Levi Smith
Early settler in Bloomfield Township, Trumbull County, in the Ohio Western Reserve
Patty Smith
The twice-widowed Ohioan set off for a new adventure in Iowa
Arvilla Delight Smith
Held hostage with her daughter Josephine after husband Nathan Meeker was killed in a Colorado…
Josiah Smith
Revolutionary War veteran whose descendants settled Ohio, Iowa and points west
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…