“To sister Bertha(e) Knight who urged me to attend summer school at (…) Morgan Dancers” (handwritten on bottom). From the Scrapbook kept by Stella Knight Ruess containing photographs, articles, poems, and notices related to dance performances from 1913 to 1952. | src University of Utah ~ J. Willard Marriott Library @ Omnia and MWDL

Stella Knight was born on 9 July 1879, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio; Daughter of William Henry Knight and Ella Joana Waters. She married Christopher George Ruess on 2nd April 1905, in Los Angeles, California. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts in 1920 and Los Angeles, California, for about 10 years. She died on 10 May 1964, in Los Angeles, California.