. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . The Rev. Dr. Robinsonmarried, 1856, Mary Wolf Buehler, daughter of BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 595 Henry Buehler and Anna Margaretha Wolf, and theirchildren were Henry Buehler, Anna Margaretha, d. , William Andrew, Eliza MeCormick, EdwardOrth, Thomas Hastings, and Mary Buehler. CAPT. ABNER Rutherford, son of William Rutherford andSarah Swan, was born March 31, 1814, on the Ruth-erford homestead in Swatara township, Dauphin Co.,Pa. He is in the fourth generatio


. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . The Rev. Dr. Robinsonmarried, 1856, Mary Wolf Buehler, daughter of BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 595 Henry Buehler and Anna Margaretha Wolf, and theirchildren were Henry Buehler, Anna Margaretha, d. , William Andrew, Eliza MeCormick, EdwardOrth, Thomas Hastings, and Mary Buehler. CAPT. ABNER Rutherford, son of William Rutherford andSarah Swan, was born March 31, 1814, on the Ruth-erford homestead in Swatara township, Dauphin Co.,Pa. He is in the fourth generation from ThomasRutherford, the progenitor of the family in Pennsyl- His energy and ability, combined with his businesshabits, have produced that success which generallyfollow. Mr. Rutherford married, Feb. 28, 1839, AnnEspy, youngest daughter of William Espy, of Swatara,and their children are William Franklin, Sarah Ann,Susan Elizabeth, and Ada Byron, wife of Spencer , of Williamsburg, Pa. CAPT. JOHN B. Brisban Rutherford, son of Samuel Ruther-ford and Elizabeth Brisban, was born Nov. 28, 1805,. vania. He received the education afforded by theselect schools of Paxtang Valley, and most of his lifehe has passed in farming. For several years he hasbeen president of the First National Bank of Hum-melstown ; has been identified with other corpora-tions, and active in various local enterprises of theday. In 1835 he was a captain of the Tenth Com-pany, Ninety-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania many years he has been one of the vice-presi-dents of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society,in the founding of which he took a prominent part. in now Swatara township, Dauphin Co., Pa., on thefarm where he now resides. He is the great-grandsonof Thomas Rutherford, the progenitor of the familyhere. Being the only surviving son, tothe farm property of his father uponhis^death^, 1S33, and has made farming his main businessthrough life. In early ma


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