BIO: Abner RUTHERFORD, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 236.
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  RUTHERFORD, ABNER, son of William Rutherford, was born March 31, 
1814, in Swatara township, Dauphin county, Pa.; died September 2, 1891, 
and was buried at Paxtang.  He received the education afforded by the 
select schools of Paxtang Valley, and was a farmer by occupation.  The 
last fifteen years of his life he was president of the First National 
Bank of Hummelstown; was identified with other corporations, and active 
in various local enterprises of his day.  He was one of the early 
members of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, and in 1835 was 
captain of the Tenth company, Ninety-eighty regiment, Pennsylvania 
militia.  For many years he was one of the vice-presidents of the 
Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, in the founding of which he 
took a prominent part.  His energy and ability, combined with his 
business habits, produced that success which generally follows.  Mr. 
Rutherford married, February 28, 1839, Ann Espy, youngest daughter of 
William Espy, of Swatara.