History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . which occurred January 13, 1917. Industrious and devoted to his business, Mr. Rutherford, although a comparativelyyoung man at the time of his passing away, had made a marked success and occupieda place of high esteem in his large circle of friends. He was one of the organizersand a director of the Chamber of Commerce; president of the Orange County BankersAssociation; a member and dir
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . which occurred January 13, 1917. Industrious and devoted to his business, Mr. Rutherford, although a comparativelyyoung man at the time of his passing away, had made a marked success and occupieda place of high esteem in his large circle of friends. He was one of the organizersand a director of the Chamber of Commerce; president of the Orange County BankersAssociation; a member and director of the Orange County Country Club, and whenthe Elks Hall was erected he was a member of the building committee. Prominentin fraternal circles, he was a member of Santa Ana Lodge No. 241, F. & A. M.; SantaAna Lodge No. 794, B. P. O. Elks, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Rutherfords marriage, on June 20, 1907, united him with Miss Susie M. Halla-day, an adopted daughter of the late Daniel Halladay, a sketch of whose life is givenelsewhere in this work. Mrs. Rutherford is a member of the First Presbyterian Churchand is prominent in club circles, being secretary of the Ebell HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 8^5 DWIGHT E. MAGILL.—The owner of one of the trimmest ranches in all theBuaro precinct—Section 34, a tract of ten acres, which he bought in 1911—is DwightE. Magill, a native of Kansas, where he was born on August 9, 1886. He was fouryears old when his father, Cyrus Newton Magill, and his mother, who had beenMatilda Brady before her marriage, settled in what is now the Buaro precinct, nearGarden Grove. Thus Dwight grew up in the Garden Grove district, where he attendedthe grammar school. He put in a year also in the Orange high school, and then workedon his fathers farm until he was twenty-one. After that Mr. Magill worked for theBrady Bros, on their hay press, and after learning the business, ran a hay press ofhis own for six years. He gave general s
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