BIO:  Walter B. RUBY, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 41

WALTER B. RUBY, detective and constable, is a son of Joseph and Sarah (Barnhart) 
Ruby, was born at Wrightsville, Penn., October 20, 1844, is one of fourteen 
children, and is of Scotch-German descent.  The father was born in Somerset 
County, Penn., January 20, 1809, and died in York County, in 1871; the mother 
was born in York County, in 1811.  In 1845 the Ruby family came to York.  Mr. 
Ruby received a common school education, and at fourteen years of age began for 
himself in life; some time he was news boy on the Northern Central Railroad.  In 
August, 1862, he enlisted in Company K. One Hundred and Thirtieth Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, but on account of physical disability, was discharged in December of 
the same year.  In January, 1864, he enlisted again in the One Hundred and 
Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company B, and was discharged at the 
close of the war.  In 1874 he was given a position on the York police force, 
where he continued until 1879, and has since that time been acting in his 
present capacity.  In 1880 and 1881, he was made foreman of the Laurel Fire 
Company.  His marriage occurred in 1872, to Miss Sarah J. Fishel, or York 
County; he is a Democrat, and a member of the I. O. O. F., and I. O. H.