Samuel Silas Brisbin Rutherford and Annie Walker

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Husband Samuel Silas Brisbin Rutherford ¹

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            AKA: Samuel Silas Brisban Rutherford 2
           Born: 28 Apr 1825 - Dauphin Co, PA 1
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           Died: Aft 1896
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         Father: John Parke Rutherford (1802-1871) 2 3
         Mother: Eliza Rutherford (1801-1850/1860) 2 3

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Mary Caroline Walker (1842-1874) 4 - 28 Aug 1860 5

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Wife Annie Walker ⁶

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           Born: 4 Sep 1843 5
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         Father: James Walker (1814-1895) 7
         Mother: Ann Reigel (      -      ) 5

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Silas Brisbin Rutherford

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He attended the private schools of Susquehanna township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and was for one session at the academy at Middletown. In 1848-49 he taught in the public schools. On June 1, 1849, he received an appointment to a clerkship in the Harrisburg post-office, which position he accepted, and occupied for four years and one month. He afterwards entered the employ of John H. Brant, commission merchant, as clerk, and was thus occupied for five years, when Mr. Brant went out of business. Through Mr. Brant's influence Mr. Rutherford was employed as clerk in the freight office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, where he continued until 1861. After this he was appointed clerk under his father in the quartermaster's department, and served until the close of the war in 1865. In 1866 Mr. Rutherford came home and assisted his brother, during the month of August. In September, through the instrumentality of Mr. Calder, he was sent to Baltimore. He removed his family to that city, and resided there until April, 1870, when he returned to his old homestead. He resided there henceforth, and attended personally to the cultivation of the land until 1876, when he gave up active duties.
He filled various township offices. In 1876 he was elected assessor, and served one year; he was re-elected in 1879, 1880 and 1882. He was a Republican. He was a member of the Paxtang Presbyterian church, and was a trustee and the treasurer of the church. [CBEDC, 1012]

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

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

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 226, 1012.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1012, 1015.

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

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1012, 1016.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1012, 15.