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…
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…