Dr. William Wilson Rutherford and Eleanor Crain

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Husband Dr. William Wilson Rutherford ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 23 Nov 1805 - Paxtang (later Swatara) Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 1 2
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           Died: 13 Mar 1873 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1 4
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         Father: Col. William Rutherford (1776-1850) 5 6
         Mother: Sarah Swan (1779-1852) 5 7 8

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Wife Eleanor Crain ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 18 Jul 1805 3
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         Father: Col. Richard Moore Crain (1777-1852) 9 10 11
         Mother: Elizabeth Whitehill (1770/1771-1848) 9 10 11

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Children

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1 M Dr. Alexander Rutherford ¹

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2 F Sarah Rutherford ¹

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         Spouse: Capt. W. Harvey Brown, U.S.A. (      -      ) 1

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3 F Elizabeth Crain Rutherford ^{12 13 14}

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         Spouse: John Christian Kunkel (1816-1870) 12 14 15
           Marr: 20 Oct 1857 13

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. William Wilson Rutherford

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He was one of the earliest settlers of the valley, and of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Whiteside, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, then a prominent physician, in 1830, and after the removal of Dr. Whiteside continued under the instructions of Dr. Dean. He attended the lectures of Jefferson Medical College, 1830 to 1832, graduating from that institution on the 7th of March, the latter year. He located first at Mechanicsburg, where he remained nearly a year, when entering into partnership with his preceptor, Dr. Dean, he removed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where for forty years he practiced his profession, winning for himself an honorable name not only at home but abroad. Dr. Rutherford had what few physicians possessed: a most perfect knowledge of diseases in general; and it mattered little what the case, his diagnosis, when called in consultation, was as final as it was accurate. An extensive practice of over forty years in every department of medicine and surgery gave him such a perfect knowledge of his profession that the loss of his advice and assistance in difficult cases was severely felt by his surviving brethren.
For eight years prior to his death he had been the regularly-appointed surgeon to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, although he served it some ten years previously when called upon. From the organization of the old Harrisburg Gas Company he was one of its directors, and at his death president of the company. In numerous other enterprises he took an active part, and was always one of Harrisburg's public-spirited citizens. His life was an eventful one, and one fraught with many incidents of interest. In season and out of season, in life and in death, his good-natured face appeared upon the stage, gladly, even tearfully, welcome. He died at Harrisburg, aged sixty-seven years.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 557.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 363, 1012.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 151.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 363.

5 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 532, 557.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1001, 1011.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1012.

8 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 156.

9 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 477.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 149.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 52.

12 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 514.

13 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 238.

14 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 358.

15 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 237.