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| L. GIDEON RUTHERFORD, prosecuting attorney, was born of Irish parentage, at Bath, N.Y., January 2, 1842. He remained at home until fourteen years of age, when he ran away and worked all Summer in a logging fallow. Afterward, returning home, he attended school three Winters, when he entered a law office in Bath, remaining until December, 1861, when he enlisted in the Seventy-eigth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until December 1863, when he was discharged for disability. His health having gradually improved, in July, 1864, he returned with the One Hundred and Eighty-ninth New York Volunteers, being Second Lieutenant, taking part in every battle of the Potomac from September 1864, to Appomattox Court House in 1865. He was promoted to a Captaincy in the One HUndred and Eighty-ninth. He then returned home, entering upon mercantile life until 1867, when he caem to Hart. With Mr. Benham, he built a sash, blind and door factory, and sold it the same Fall, and commenced speculating in real estate. Meeting with some financial reverses, he went to work for Wigton, in the sawmill for a year. In 1870 he was admitted to the practice of law, in which he has ever since been engaged. In the Fall of 1880 he was elected prosecuting attorney, running over a 1,000 ahead of his ticket, which was a fusion of Greenbackers and Democrats. Since he has held the office there have been but two men acquitted of the charges brought against them. He is judge advocate of the Grand Army of the Republic for Michigan, and one of the national council of administration for the same institution. He was married December 30, 1865, to MIss Charlotte Beaty, of Tyrone, Schuyler Co., N.Y., and they have two children, Mac and Maggie, aged respectively five and one years. |