John Ruse Larus

John Ruse Larus was an American author born in 1858. The clearest details consistently available online connect him with Women of America, his contribution to the multi-volume series Woman in All Ages and in All Countries, published in Philadelphia in the 1907–1908 period.

His best-known work looks at the lives and status of women across American history, including Native American societies and later colonial and national life. Modern library and public-domain records also associate him with the poem Mastor, first published in the late 1880s.

Reliable biographical information beyond those book records is limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember him primarily through his writing: a late-19th- and early-20th-century author whose surviving books show a strong interest in history, culture, and the place of women in society.