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Ruby Green Smith (January 6, 1878 – May 13, 1960) was an American entomologist, peace campaigner and home economics educator. She is known for having authored The Home Bureau Creed.
Smith was born as Ruby Green on January 6, 1878, on a farm near Knightstown, Indiana, the daughter of Marcella Jane (née Hayes), a former teacher, and Dr. Alpheus W. Green, a physician who practised in Knightstown. She attended Knightstown High School. Her father died while she and her brother and sister were still at school. She was subsequently educated at Stanford University, receiving a B.A. in 1902.
Smith worked as a teacher and head of the Department of Biology and Botany at Stockton High School, Stockton, California, before returning to Stanford University as a research instructor in entomology and bionomics, obtaining an M.A. from the university in 1904. She studied evolution in insects there, under Vernon Kellogg, with whom she co-authored several works, including Studies of Variation in Insects (as Ruby G. Bell, 1904) and Inheritance in Silkworms (1908).
She obtained a PhD from Cornell University in 1914 and began a career in Cornell's Department of Home Economics' Extension Service, teaching home economics as a pathway for women to enter higher education. From being an assistant in 1919, by 1923 she was state leader of home demonstration agents and a professor.
In 1919, she authored The Home Bureau Creed, of which over half a million copies were eventually printed and distributed.
She also worked as assistant director of the Conservation Division of the New York State Food Commission, and with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, before her retirement in 1946.
She subsequently wrote The People's Colleges: A History of the New York State Extension Service in Cornell University and the State, 1876–1948.
Together with Glenn Herrick she edited Anna Botsford Comstock's "autobiography" of her husband John Henry Comstock and herself, published in 1953 and titled The Comstocks of Cornell: John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock. A 2020 edition, edited by Karen Penders St. Clair and titled The Comstocks of Cornell: The Definitive Autobiography, restored much material that had been withheld from Anna's original manuscript.
Ruby Green Smith
Ruby Green Smith (January 6, 1878 – May 13, 1960) was an American entomologist, peace campaigner and home economics educator. She is known for having authored The Home Bureau Creed.
Smith was born as Ruby Green on January 6, 1878, on a farm near Knightstown, Indiana, the daughter of Marcella Jane (née Hayes), a former teacher, and Dr. Alpheus W. Green, a physician who practised in Knightstown. She attended Knightstown High School. Her father died while she and her brother and sister were still at school. She was subsequently educated at Stanford University, receiving a B.A. in 1902.
Smith worked as a teacher and head of the Department of Biology and Botany at Stockton High School, Stockton, California, before returning to Stanford University as a research instructor in entomology and bionomics, obtaining an M.A. from the university in 1904. She studied evolution in insects there, under Vernon Kellogg, with whom she co-authored several works, including Studies of Variation in Insects (as Ruby G. Bell, 1904) and Inheritance in Silkworms (1908).
She obtained a PhD from Cornell University in 1914 and began a career in Cornell's Department of Home Economics' Extension Service, teaching home economics as a pathway for women to enter higher education. From being an assistant in 1919, by 1923 she was state leader of home demonstration agents and a professor.
In 1919, she authored The Home Bureau Creed, of which over half a million copies were eventually printed and distributed.
She also worked as assistant director of the Conservation Division of the New York State Food Commission, and with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, before her retirement in 1946.
She subsequently wrote The People's Colleges: A History of the New York State Extension Service in Cornell University and the State, 1876–1948.
Together with Glenn Herrick she edited Anna Botsford Comstock's "autobiography" of her husband John Henry Comstock and herself, published in 1953 and titled The Comstocks of Cornell: John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock. A 2020 edition, edited by Karen Penders St. Clair and titled The Comstocks of Cornell: The Definitive Autobiography, restored much material that had been withheld from Anna's original manuscript.