Rufi Family Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains family history records for the Rufi family, including a brief autobiography of Civil War veteran Jacob Rufi, a scrapbooks with images dating from the 1900s to the 1960s, and correspondences. The collection also contains family history research and family trees for the Rufi and Wolf families. John Rufi, whose materials make up much of the collection, was a professor at the University of Missouri. The materials of Joan Rufi are included as well, including papers written as a student of journalism at the University of Missouri and a scrapbook documenting her wedding in 1955.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1900 - 1993
Creator
- Rufi, John (Person)
- Rufi, Jacob, 1842-1918 (Person)
- Craig, Joan Rufi Imes, 1924-2016 (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Jacob Rufi was born in Switzerland in 1842 and immigrated to the United States as a child. In 1861, he enlisted to fight in the U.S. Civil War for the Union. He served with the Missouri State Home Guard, the Fifth Iowa Cavalry, and the Missouri State Militia. He passed away in 1918 in Neosho County, Kansas.
John Rufi was born in Neosho County, Kansas in 1892. He received degrees from the Kansas State Teachers College and Columbia University, and joined the faculty of the University of Missouri in 1928. John Rufi was a professor of education until his retirement in 1962.
Joan Rufi Craig was born in 1924 in Brooklyn, New York and lived most of her life in Missouri. She received both an English/Sociology and Journalism degree at the University of Missouri, and worked as a copywriter in the field of advertising. She passed away in Lee’s Summit in 2016.
Full Extent
0.417 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Rufi Family Collection
- Subtitle
- A finding aid from the Midwest Genealogy Center
- Author
- John Mason
- Date
- 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Midwest Genealogy Center Repository