. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . , 1847, he was ap-pointed principal assistant engineer of the easterndivision of the Pennsylvania Railroad, under Forster, Jr. In 1852 he was employed in the con-struction of the Dauphin and Susquehanna CoalCompany Railroad. From Sept. 1, 1850, to July 19,1859, he was principal engineer on the enlargementof the Union Canal. July 19,1859, he was appointedby Governor William F. Packer a commissioner toexamine that portion of the line of the Sunbury andErie Railroad lying
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . , 1847, he was ap-pointed principal assistant engineer of the easterndivision of the Pennsylvania Railroad, under Forster, Jr. In 1852 he was employed in the con-struction of the Dauphin and Susquehanna CoalCompany Railroad. From Sept. 1, 1850, to July 19,1859, he was principal engineer on the enlargementof the Union Canal. July 19,1859, he was appointedby Governor William F. Packer a commissioner toexamine that portion of the line of the Sunbury andErie Railroad lying between the harbor of Erie andthe borough of Warren. On the 24th of April, 1860,was elected civil engineer to make survey and planof the city of Harrisburg. In 1866 he was employedin the office of the assessor of United States internalrevenue, continuing in the employ of the govern-ment until 1872, in which year, on the 27th day ofJune, he departed this life. Mr. Hage was marriedDec. 18, 1849, by the Rev. J. Baker, of Lancaster,Pa., to Mary A. Kendig, second daughter of Henryand Salome Kendig, of Lancaster &>/&&. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 557 CAPT. JOHN P. RUTHERFORD. John Parke Rutherford, son of William Rutherfordand Sarah Swan, was born Feb. 14, 1802, in now Swa-tara township. Dauphin Co., Pa. He was a fanner,and brought up in that pursuit. He held many placesof public trust in his life ; was superintendent of theWiconisco Canal as early as 1837, an auditor of thecounty, a jury commissioner, and was vice-presidentand treasurer of the Pennsylvania State AgriculturalSociety. He was a strong anti-slavery advocate, asall his family were, and many a weary pilgrim in thedays of the fugitive slave act, sore of foot and heart,found in Capt. Rutherford hospitable assistance,material aid, and manly encouragement. He hatedslavery because he considered it a moral sin and apolitical blight upon the free institutions of the late Rebellion he served as quartermaster
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