Forest Rutherford

Forest Rutherford. Probably Graduation Photo from McGill, 1896.

Forest Rutherford was the son of  William Rutherford and Elizabeth Jackson, and brother of William Rutherford Jr.  It sounds like he inherited the family penchant for business.

From Who's Who on the Pacific Coast, 1913:

"Rutherford, Forest, Metallurgist;  born, Montreal, Canada, March 24, 1871;  son, William and Elizabeth (Jackson) R. B.S. McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada, 1896.  Unmarried.  Supt. of Reduction Works, Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co., Member, Am. Inst. Mining Engrs., Address, Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co, Douglas, Az."
   
Here's a fuller and later biography, from Who's Who in Arizona, Volume 1:

"FOREST RUTHERFORD, Superintendent of the Reduction Works of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, was born in Montreal, Canada, March 24, 1871. His parents are William and Elizabeth Jackson Rutherford. Mr. Rutherford was educated in the public schools and later graduated from McGill University, Montreal, as Mining Engineer, in 1896. For two years subsequent to this he was employed by the Pueblo Smelting and Refining Company, of Pueblo, Colorado, when he went to Monterey, Mexico, in the employ of the Guggenheim interests, where he remained but one year, having been appointed at that time Chief Chemist, and six months afterwards Assistant Superintendent of their plant at Aguas Calientes, Mexico. This position he retained until 1903, when he entered the employ of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company as Assistant Superintendent of Reduction Works. Here the valuable experience he had acquired in previous positions was used to so great an advantage and his unvarying application to the affairs of the Company gave him so complete a mastery of detail that his years of service as Assistant Superintendent met with the sincere approval of his employers. On July 1, 1912, he was promoted to the position of Superintendent, a most substantial testimonial of appreciation of his efforts. Mr. Rutherford is one of the best known citizens of Douglas, a man who is willing to perform his share in the affairs of his community, and a member of the Masonic order."
  
Forest was living in Douglas, Arizona in 1911 when he got caught up in a battle in the Mexican Revolution.  Here is part of an account from the New York Times of April 14, 1911.

OUR SOLDIERS STOP A FIGHT IN MEXICO

CROSS BORDER AFTER TWO AMERICANS IN DOUGLAS ARE KILLED BY STRAY BULLETS 

REBELS TAKE BORDER CITY

Augua Prieta's Small Garrison Is Taken By Surprise and Defeated After a Warm Engagement 

Augua Prieta, Mexico, April 13--During a battle which lasted all afternoon and resulted in the capture of this city by the rebels, commanded by "Red" Lopez, American troops crossed the border and stopped the fighting. The action was taken after three men had been killed and several wounded in Douglas, and the continued firing was endangering the lives of Americans on United States Territory. 

The rebels now in possession are part of the band which recently captured Arizpe and drew a large Federal force in that direction, and then threatened Cananea, and caused the concentration of Federal soldiers there, and then turned towards Fronteras and struck quickly here before the Federals could move to the border.  

Augua Prieta is the terminal of the Nacozari Railroad into Sonora and is the most important point on the border between El Paso and the Pacific Ocean.  Following are the American dead and injured....

Forest Rutherford, Assistant Superintendant of the Copper Queen smelter,  went to his home near the smelter when the battle began.  A bullet, among many which entered his home, struck him in the foot.  The injury is slight ..."

Forest married Lillian Henry in 1915.  Their marriage appears to have ended in divorce.

Here's a tidbit about Lillian, buried in a biography of her mother, Margaret Henry, on the Pueblo County, Colorado website:

"John (Thatcher) married Margaret A. Henry, the second daughter of Judge John W. Henry, on April 17, 1866, at the home of her parents on Chico Creek. Their modest wood structure home on Santa Fe Avenue consisted of five rooms. Mrs. Thatcher hired Irish servants to assist with her household duties, a practice she continued when the family moved to Rosemount. They became the parents of five children.... Lillian (1870 – 1948) was their second child. She also attended the Mountain Seminary after attending Centennial Grade School. Lillian completed her education at Mrs. Sutton's Home School for Girls in Philadelphia. She was twenty-three when she moved into Rosemount. In 1915, Lillian married Forest Rutherford, who was superintendent of the Copper Queen Smelter in Douglas, Arizona. Later she returned to Rosemount. A street merchant named Parliapiano recalled he had a small hand pushed cart that he sold vegetables from and slept underneath at night. At the end of the day, his last stop was Rosemount and he always hoped that Lillian would open the door. If he was lucky and (she) did, she would purchase what was left on the cart."

Forest appears on the 1910 census of the United States in the town of Pirtleville, Cochise, in what was then the territory of Arizona.  He is the head of a boarding house and has three boarders and a live-in housekeeper. He is a 35-year-old single man and gives his occupation as assistant supervisor of a copper smelter. His boarders include an assayer and a chief electrician of a copper smelter (presumably the same one) and the teenage daughter of his housekeeper, who lists her occupation as "soda fountain clerk."

I can't find him at all on the 1920 census. He shows up on the 1930 census of the United States as living in Manhattan in what looks like a boarding house or apartment building, divorced.  He is age 59 and one of 28 people living in the residence.

Forest  seems to have been well travelled;  I have found several ship's records that document his voyages. On December 19, 1911, he arrived in the port of New Orleans back from a trip to Bocas Del Toro and Colon, Panama.  On February 23, 1920, he and his wife Lilian arrived at the port of New York, travelling back from Hamilton, Bermuda.  This passenger list gives their address as 120 Broadway Avenue (!) and says that Forest became a naturalized American in 1917 in Tombstone, Arizona.  He also made several trips to England, in March 1929, June 1930 and April 1932.  He made these voyages on his own, and gives his address as the Engineers Club, 32 West 40th Street, New York. 

An obituary for Forest in the Ottawa Citizen:

"Ottawa Woman Bereaved By Death Of Brother:  New York, Feb. 1--Forest Rutherford, consulting engineer in mining and metallurgy, died in hospital today after a brief illness. He was a native of Montreal and was graduated from McGill University in 1895 as a bachelor of applied science in mining engineering. 
Rutherford belonged to the American Institute of  Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, American Mining Congress, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Engineers Club and the Canadian Club of New York. 
Surviving are his widow, three brothers, including Stewart and Andrew Rutherford of Montreal, and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret McIntosh of Montreal and Mrs. Helen Dunlop of Ottawa." 

And another one in the New York Times, Feb. 2, 1938:

F. RUTHERFORD, 66, MINING ENGINEER

Authority on Metallurgy Is Dead--Formerly Held Posts in West and Mexico

  

"Forest Rutherford, consulting engineer in mining and metallurgy, with offices at 50 Broad Street, died yesterday at the New York Hospital after a brief illness.  His home was at 33 Fifth Avenue.  He was 66 years old.

Since 1917 Mr. Rutherford had had his offices here, but previously he had been with major mining companies in the Western United States and in Mexico.  He was a native of Montreal and was graduated as Bachelor of Applied Science in Mining Engineering from McGill University in 1896. 

In 1896 he became a chemist for the Pueblo Smelting Company at Pueblo, Col.  Next, in 1898, Mr. Rutherford obtained a similar post with La Gran Fundacion Nacional at Monterey, Mexico, and later held executive posts for the Phelps Dodge Corporation in Sonora, Mexico, and Douglas, Arizona. 

Mr. Rutherford belonged to the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, American Mining Congress, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Engineers Club and the Canadian Club of New York. 

Surviving are his widow, three brothers, Stewart and Andrew Rutherford of Montreal, and Gordon Rutherford of Painesville, Ohio, and two sisters, Mrs. Margaret McIntosh of Montreal and Mrs. Helen Dunlop of Ottawa.  A funeral service will be held at 4 P.M. today at the Universal Funeral Chapel, 597 Lexington Avenue." 

It's interesting that both obituaries refer to a widow, although he seems to have been divorced and I can't find any indication of a second marriage.  He doesn't seem to have any children. He is buried in Montreal, probably in the Mount Royal cemetery.