Ruth Putnam (author), Putnam, Ruth
Ruth Putnam may refer to: * Ruth Anna Putnam (1927–2019), American philosopher *Ruth Putnam (author) (1856–1931), author and early graduate of Sage Hall at Cornell University *Ruth Putnam, daughter of Ann Putnam in ''The Crucible ''The Crucible'' is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693. Miller wrote ...

Ruth Anna Putnam
Ruth Anna Putnam (born Ruth Anna Jacobs; 20 September 1927 – 4 May 2019) was an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. Biography Ruth Anna Jacobs was born in Berlin on 20 September 1927. Her father, born Karl Adolf Rudolf Hermann Jacobs in 1901 in Gotha, was Hermann Jacobs, the great great grandson of the German scholar Friedrich Jacobs.'' Deutsches Geschlechterbuch'', vol. 214, Limburg 2002, p. 267-946 Her mother Marie Jacobs, born Marie Kohn in 1901, was the daughter of Hans Nathan Kohn, the German physician after whom the "Pores of Kohn" were named. Ruth was the couple's only child. Ruth Jacob's parents were, respectively, Jewish and Christian by birth, but saw themselves as atheists. When she was five years old, she was sent to live with her Christian grandparents when her anti-Nazi parents went into hiding. Ruth Anna emigrated to the United States in 1948, aged 21, where she was finally reunited with her parents in Los Angeles. Her fa ...
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Ruth Putnam (author)
Ruth Putnam (18 July 1856, Yonkers, New York – 12 February 1931, Geneva, Switzerland) was an author, suffragist, and alumni trustee of Cornell University. One of eleven children of the publisher George Palmer Putnam and his wife Victorine Haven Putnam, she received her bachelor's degree in 1878 from Cornell University (in 1873 Emma Sheffield Eastman had been the first woman to graduate from Cornell University). Putnam wrote a number of historical works and consulted original sources in Dutch, French, and German, as well as English. She also wrote a biography of her eldest sibling Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, who was a famous physician and suffragist. Selected publications * as collaborator with Alfred John Church Alfred John Church (29 January 1829 – 27 April 1912) was an English classical scholar. Church was born in London and was educated at King's College, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford. He took holy orders and was an assistant-master at Merch ...: (historical nove ...
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