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Updated: 07 Apr 2013

Daily Oklahoman, The 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 
June 22, 1947

Ruby Canton was born at Buffalo, WY, December 9, 1885. She lived there with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Canton, until they moved to Nebraska City  in 1892 and two years later came with them to Oklahoma. In 1897,Canton was sent to the interior of Alaska as a United States Marshal, and Ruby and her mother returned to Wyoming.

After graduating from the Buffalo high school, she went to Chicago where she studied music for one year under Rudolph Ganz. When she came to Oklahoma, where her parents had returned in 1906, she was offered a position as head of the music department at Oklahoma A&M college but preferred another year in school.

In 1908 Governor Haskell appointed her librarian at what was then called Central Normal School at Edmond. In later years she continued advanced studies at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Tech. She spent the summer of 1925 aboard. She died July 18, 1928, having been a member of the faculty at Central State College, Edmond, for 20 years to a day.

cemetery stone photos courtesy Tea4Two

Daily Oklahoman, The 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 
July 20, 1928

Ruby Canton Rites To Be Held Friday

Funeral services for Miss Ruby Canton, daughter of the late Frank M. Canton, will be held at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon in the Hahn funeral home.

Miss Canton died suddenly Wednesday night in St. Louis from a sudden heart attack. Miss Canton had been ill for several months but was thought to be recovering.

Services will be conducted by Judge Elmer L. Fulton, former reader in the Christian Science church of which Miss Canton was a member. Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery.

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