Ruby Green Smith
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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.
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. |alt=For transcript see Wikisource 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 19531 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.
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