the history of the other. In the useful and progressive career of Judge Ruffin the counsel and support of his wife were great factors, and through him the two were in turn councilman, legislator, lawyer and judge. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Ruffin has been more than ever active in the charities and philanthropies which fill so large a place in the life of the true Boston woman. For fifteen years she has been one of the Board of Directors of the Moral Education Association of Massachusetts, and at one time its treasurer. She is also a member of the Board of the Massachusetts School Suffrage Association, one of the earliest and first of the members of the Associated Charities of Boston, and was recently made a member of the N. B. Women's Press Association. For one year Mrs. Ruffin was editor-in-chief of the Boston Courant, but lately felt compelled to resign the active management of this paper, the following being among the newspaper notices of her retirement. The Woman’s Journal says of her:
Mrs. Josephine St. P. Ruffin, who for some time was editor-in-chief of the Boston Courant, is taking a long vacation, rendered necessary by prostration from overwork. Mrs. Ruffin has unusual editorial ability and she made the Courant a leader among Afro-American papers and a credit to weekly journalism. It is announced that "it is not expected that Mrs. Ruffin will again resume the active management of the Courant, although it is her intention to be a contributor to its columns; the starting of a new and very comprehensive charitable work, together with her growing business of the care of the estates of widows and maiden ladies, promising to consume all her time this coming season."
The Boston Courant, September 3, 1892, also speaks as follows:
