C.M. Rutherford
Calvin Morgan Rutherford (born , died after 1866), generally known as C. M. Rutherford, was a 19th-century American interstate slave trader. Rutherford had a wide geographic reach, trading nationwide from the Old Dominion of Virginia to as far west as Texas. Rutherford had ties to former Franklin & Armfield associates, worked in Kentucky for several years, advertised to markets throughout Louisiana and Mississippi, and was a major figure in the New Orleans slave trade for at least 20 years. Rutherford also invested his money in steamboats and hotels. Life and work Early years and family C. M. Rutherford was a son of Randolph (Raudle) and Polly Rutherford from Wythe County, Virginia. He listed his birthplace as Virginia in both the 1850 and 1860 census, and reported ages to the census enumerators that would place his birthdate between 1804 and 1815. A doctor who claimed him as a reference declared that Rutherford was cured of his anal fistula in summer 1845, when he was age 35 ...
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