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Photographer: Al Wolf
Taken: May 15, 2010
Caption: Top Section - - Photo - "Dr. Hiram Rutherford"
Additional Description: Dr. Hiram Rutherford was born on December 27, 1815 near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia before migrating to Illinois in 1840. Rutherford came from a prominent abolitionist family; his brother William W., was a vice president of the Harrisburg Antislavery Society, and was instrumental in bringing William Loyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglass to speak in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1847. With his strong antislavery background, Rutherford would have been the natural choice to aid the Bryant family in their flight from bondage.
Submitted: May 19, 2010, by Al Wolf of Veedersburg, Indiana.
Database Locator Identification Number: p109455
File Size: 0.608 Megabytes

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