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148 History University of Illinois Nor was lack of money his only limitation. He interested people so readily it was difficult for him to keep on hand a sufficient quantity of the league's literature. Upon one occasion, Turner who had been with him in Joliet forgot his carpet-bag. " I have got your carpet-bag/' Dr. Rutherford wrote him, "and 111 just go unlock it and take out the reports. I'll swear to taking out nothing but the books—so if anything else is missing you can charge it over to prior thieves. By the way it is a good plan for a man who is going to cultivate/ the practice of losing his carpet-bag to attach the key to the outside. It is a sure way to save the lock." He joked constantly and not always delicately. He referred to Ninian Edwards who disagreed with him as "Ninny." In a postscript to a letter he tells Turner he dreamed of thunder a few nights ago and wondered if it was only the faint rumble of Turner's snoring at Jacksonville.28 At first acquaintance Rutherford was distasteful to the dignified Bronson Murray. But in time Murray prized the man highly, and the two became fast friends. Their friendship endured after the fight for industrial education was won and both had left Illinois for New York. The leading facts of his life may be summarized as follows: He was born at Troy, New York, September 29, 1823, but grew up in Vermont and New Hampshire; received a degree in law when quite young, but afterwards fitted himself as a lecturer on physiology and hygiene, upon which he lectured extensively in Michigan, Illinois, and other states after coming west in 1849. In 1854-1855 he lectured for the Illinois industrial league after which in 1856, he located in Quincy, where he resided some thirty years. During the civil war he served as the first commissary of subsistence at Cairo, then was associated with the state quartermaster's department, finally entering the secret service of the War Department in which he remained until 1867, retiring with rank of brevet Brigadier-General. In 1886 General Rutherford removed to New York City where he renewed his friendship with Bronson Murray and where he died, June 24, 1895. ""February 16, 1854, Turner Manuscripts.
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