Biography:

Optician, jeweler. Born– Sept. 12, 1869, Montgomery, Ala. Parents– Leonidas and Juliet (Hardwick) Ruth. Married– Maude Crook. Children– Four. Education– University of the South; Parsons’s School of Horology; two optician schools, New York. Jeweler and optician, Montgomery. Member social, literary, business clubs; Commercial and Industrial Associations (Chamber of Commerce); Episcopal Church; trustee, University of the South. Died– October 30, 1956.

Source:

Notable Men of Alabama, Vol. I; Owen’s Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

My Alabama. New York; Fortuny’s, 1941.

Eagle’s Wings. Philadelphia; Dorrance & Co., 1945.

Many Waters. Boston; Christopher Pub. House, 1942.