Ruth MacTammany

Ruth Jean MacTammany was born in 1893 in Akron, Ohio, to a bricklayer father and a dressmaker mother. Ruth was the youngest of eight children in this musical family. At the start of World War I, she was studying opera in Italy, and volunteered as an ambulance driver there during the war. In 1915 she sang with John Phillip Sousa's band at the ...