Merryle Rukeyser; Financial Writer

Merryle Stanley Rukeyser, a financial writer and editor with an international reputation, has died at the age of 91.

Rukeyser, who for more than 30 years beginning in the 1920s, wrote columns for Hearst Newspapers and International News Service, died in a hospital here.

Rukeyser also was the patriarch of a well-known clan. Louis Rukeyser is the host of “Wall Street Week” on the Public Broadcasting Service; William is a former managing editor of Money and Fortune magazines; Robert is a vice president of American Brands Inc., while M. S. (Bud) Rukeyser Jr. became a major television executive particularly well known during his years with NBC.

Rukeyser joined the New York Tribune in 1917 and at age 23 became the newspaper’s financial editor. He moved to a similar post at the New York Evening Journal from 1923 to 1926 and the following year began writing his financial columns for Hearst and INS.