Biography of Calvin Rutherford, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 712

Calvin Rutherford, farmer and stock raiser, Elmo, Ark. Mr. Rutherford owes his
nativity to Cocke County, Tenn., where he was born in 1848. He left his native
county in 1871, journeyed to Arkansas, and located in Oil Trough Bottom,
Christian Township, Independence County. The same year he was united in
marriage to Miss Catherine Baker, a native of Tennessee, and after coming to
Arkansas he rented land, thus continuing until in 1887, when he bought forty
acres. Heaven has blessed his married life with four children–Lounz, Oscar,
Mary and John. The forty acres purchased by Mr. Rutherford was at that time
very heavily timbered, but of this he has cleared twenty acres, and has built
on the same a good log house. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, McGuire
Lodge No. 208, Oil Trough, Independence County, and takes a prominent part in
all public enterprises, whether of a religious, social, or educational nature,
in his county and State. He has two children in school, and contemplates
educating them as far as his means will permit. He is the son of Calvin and
Nancy (Lane) Rutherford, natives of Tennessee, and the grandson of ——– Lane,
who was a soldier in the Mexican War, and drew a pension until his death. Mr.
Rutherford is not only a public-spirited, enterprising citizen, but is a man
universally respected by all acquainted with him. In the history of
Independence County, in its development and growth, Mr. Rutherford has borne a
prominent part for the last eighteen or twenty years.