Biographical Sketch of Frank P. Rutherford, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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Frank P. Rutherford, another prominent merchant of Houston, Texas Co.,
MO., and the son of John and Mary (Taylor) Rutherford, was born in 
Anderson County, Tenn., May 16, 1853.  The parents were natives of
Anderson County, Tenn., the father born in 1815 and died in 1875 in
Texas County, MO.  The mother was born in 1817 and died in Texas Co.,
MO. in 1887.  They were married in Tennessee, where they lived until 
1864, when they moved to Boyle County, KY., and there resided three
years.  They then moved to La Fayette County, MO., where they remained
until coming to Texas County, MO., in 1871.  He was sheriff of Ander-
son County, Tenn., for four years, was a successful farmer, and was a
Democrat in his political views.  He and wife were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church.  Besides his farming interest he was also
engaged in merchandising at Chester at the breaking out of the war,
but his business was broken up during this struggle.  To his marriage
were born seven children, four now living: Isaac, a carpenter at Mam-
moth Springs, MO.; James, at Dayton, Wash. Ter.; Mary, wife of A. G.
Bate, and Frank P.  The last named, when a boy, learned the carpen-
ter's trade, at which he worked until 1878, when he opened a cabinet
shop and furniture store, with a very small capital.  He has been
quite successful, although starting with limited means.  September 29,
1879, he married Miss Alice Kelley, a native of Webster County, MO.,
and the daughter of William C. Kelley.  To this union were born two
children, James and Ernest.  Mr. Rutherford has a branch store at
Cabool, furniture establishment, which is doing well at that place.
He is Democratic in his political principles, and Mrs. Rutherford is
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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