Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . BROOKS RUTLEDGE ARUTLEDGE family of English origin, settled in Irelandin the time of Oliver Cromwell and owned the lands ofBallymagirl near Bawnboy, County Cavan, for severalgenerations. James Rutledge was squire of Ballymagirl,Cavan, in the eighteenth century. He married Martha, daughterof Mr. Forster of Longford, Ireland, and sister of Thomas Forster,Esquire, , of the Army Medical Department, and afterwardof the Bush Farm, near Sydney, New South
Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . BROOKS RUTLEDGE ARUTLEDGE family of English origin, settled in Irelandin the time of Oliver Cromwell and owned the lands ofBallymagirl near Bawnboy, County Cavan, for severalgenerations. James Rutledge was squire of Ballymagirl,Cavan, in the eighteenth century. He married Martha, daughterof Mr. Forster of Longford, Ireland, and sister of Thomas Forster,Esquire, , of the Army Medical Department, and afterwardof the Bush Farm, near Sydney, New South Wales. The oldestson by this marriage was William Rutledge, one of the earliestand best known of the pioneers of the colony of Victoria. The first to come from the north of Ireland to this countryin the eighteenth century were John and Andrew, who came tothe Carolinas. John Rutledge was born in the year 1739, son of DoctorJohn Rutledge, who, with his brother, Andrew, both natives ofIreland, arrived in Carolina about the year 1735, and there prac-ticed, the one law and the other physic. Doctor Rutledge married Miss Hext, who at the age of
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