Ruth Anderson Scrapbook

Ruth Anderson (also known as Evelyn Rueth Anderson, Evelyn Ruth Anderson-Reohr, Evelyn Ruth Anderson, Ruth Anderson-Reohr) was an accomplished Minneapolis violinist in the late 19th and early 20th century. She trained under Eugene Ysaye in Belgium. She was later the director of the Y.M.C.A., Seaton Guild, First Baptist Church, Nicollet car barn amateur orchestras.

She married Charles D'Arlington Reohr on May 22, 1901 and they divorced in 1908. Her sister, Wilma Anderson-Gilman played piano and sometimes performed with Ruth. In 1920, Ruth joined the faculty of the MacPhail School of Music. She taught orchestra conducting, and she was the organizer and director of orchestras in the city schools.