Biography

11/28/1805 - 10/10/1892

RUTHERFORD, John Brisban, a Representative from Dauphin County; born, November 28, 1805 in Paxton (now Harrisburg), Dauphin County, Pa.; captain, Dauphin Calvary; farmer; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1848 and 1849; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1858-1860); treasurer, Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society; died, October 10, 1892 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Paxton Presbyterian Churchyard, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.