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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.